Personally I'll only use ivermectin on my builds
For those who just need a tl;dr
You cam use toothpaste temporarily. The reason why you shouldnt is a few reasons:
It can be conductive, its not the best conductor of heat, and most importantly, it dries out extremely fast (youd basically be repasting very often)
in true anarchist fashion, i wheatpasted my CPU
Demonstration of correct technique
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Do not do this
I used mayonez for like 4 days waiting for thermal grease to arrive
It only works if you put it in the pins though
DansData, 2002, has your results: http://dansdata.com/goop.htm
But in the short term, and assuming you don't bridge any contacts with it (it's sufficiently conductive to cause problems), it would seem that toothpaste works just fine as thermal compound.
There are also conductive thermal pastes. At least there were a few years ago.
Am I really supposed to replace thermal paste every couple years? Can't I just have a thing that continues to work?
Nah, the modern one's work easily 6+ years, change it if your thermals start to raise unexpectedly (and even then dust build up or a broken fan is the more likely problem)
It works until the toothpaste gets cooked. Then it's very hard to clean afterwards.
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