Amech, the maker of the thermal paste that stinks and damages coolers, has known about the issues with its product since at least October 2024, according to Igor Wallosek from Igor’s Lab. Instead of addressing the problem that damages coolers and can potentially lead to damage to expensive CPUs or GPUs, the company kept producing and selling the thermal grease. SGT-4 appears to be a chemically reactive blend that stinks due to acidic vapors, permanently damages CPUs and coolers with pitting from corrosion, and causes coolers to glue to the chip

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Why is anyone even buying this paste? Artic and Thermal Grizzly are both well under £10 for a syringe.

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People cheap out on the dumbest shit.

  • 4080ti
  • 9800X3D
  • ‘Gamer’ Mobo with all the swag*
  • 128gb low latency ram kit

And then ‘the stuff that doesn’t matter so you can save some money’:

  • bronze-rated PSU from ‘Seasorny’ or some other namealike knockoff
  • $5 thermal paste
  • $10 fans

“Bro my $3500 PC is crashing!”

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Its funny because a bronze psu is losing you money in the long run if you are actually using your pc.

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The Ea-Nasir of thermal paste

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They treated my servant with contempt!

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I mean my server!

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It’s like they went out of their way to make seemingly the worst thermal paste possible

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You say that, but it’s unclear if the paste works as an actual thermal junction or not.

Although it does read like peanut butter would be a better option.

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Isn’t toothpaste relatively decent as those things go?

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At first, but it dries out fast.

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It sounds like it melted the CPU to the cooler with the power of acid. Which would be very effective if not for the obvious issue.

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How to turn one sentence into five hundred 101

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That’s a roundabout way of writing 50500

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I’ve always wondered why some people write 101 at the end of sentences. It seems to be something North Americans do, but I’ve never really understood what it’s supposed to indicate.

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It’s a college thing. The course number for classes that introduce a subject to the students are/were SUBJ101, where SUBJ is the department/field of study, e.g., MUSC101 could be intro to music.

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In addition to what the other person said, it’s not American. It’s pretty universal college / university numbering

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So next up is a class action lawsuit that will end with a bankruptcy thing that miraculously will be bought up and a 10 dollar gift certificate eo all affected users

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Oooh, free 386! Wohoo!

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I spent 6 months working in a commercial lab that made thermal pastes, adhesives and other things used in chip/board manufacture. Based on the lab notebooks I saw from previous workers, none of their fucking results could be replicated. Most of the products we made and shipped depended on mixing the pastes to have 100% homogeny in terms of silica particle dispersion; and the lab was relying on me hand mixing most stuff, as the mixers were not up to snuff. Most of the equipment we used to test thermal properties were janky as hell. I’m not sure if the lab/product in the article is well known, but you should be wary of small manufacturers. Always mix your thermal paste well kids.

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Amech (Aimac) SGT-4 in case anyone was wondering.

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Thats plenty applied in the picture.

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Maybe he was actually trying to create a super efficient thermal activated glue. But yeah, the old shitty move to sell something they know is defective because they need to make coin no matter what.

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So, don’t buy shit from Amech.

Don’t buy ANY shit from Amech.

Ever.

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