Don't have thermal paste? Use this!

[St1ckM4n]

Many common household items can be used in an emergency for short periods of time!

http://forums.overclockersclub.com/?showtopic=164465

 

[hopgop1]

I have an old p4 3.06 system I salvaged and it was overheating so I removed old thermal paste but don't have any new stuff around so I will try toothpaste and see if it makes a difference, bear in mind this thing with an 80mm CPU fan and no paste is in BIOS at about 100C so I will try it and report back if I get the chance.

 

[cliffordcooley]

Something about using aluminum foil, makes me think it would work no better than not using a solution at all.

 

[St1ckM4n]

Use aluminium foil to cook an egg on it. Should keep temps down during cooking process.

 

[cliffordcooley]

Lol

 

[Tarkus]

Yeah, I'm gonna say no. How many years will those substances keep their thermal transfer properties? I have have the same AS paste on my CPU for at least 5 years.

 

[hood6558]

You forgot mayonnaise; on another site it beat out fully half of the commercially available TIM pastes (although it's effectiveness was said to diminish after a week). http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Thermal-Compound-Roundup-January-2012/1468/5

 

[captaincranky]

This actually makes quite a bit of sense http://weldwarehouse.com/cgi-bin/einstein.pl?::1:WLDWH:1:535=NSB-4

I'm pretty sure one of its primary ingredients is molybdenum powder.

EDIT: Somewhat counter intuitively, it doesn't seem to work.....

 

[Tekkaraiden]

I'm thinking I'd just wait until I could buy some heatsink compound.

 

[Jad Chaar]

Hahahahaha this made my day Stickman. Thanks for posting.