I feel it can be difficult for the average buyer to detect if the thermal paste they are getting is the actual thermal paste they ordered. I heard it i
I think people who buy accidentally buy used CPUs may also get poorer quality thermal paste if their used CPU came with thermal paste.
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True, they save on the used cpu purchase and go cheap on the paste.
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Hopefully, most of the used CPU sellers, are giving people real paste instead of fake paste which is made from a homemade items like glue.
I imagine some cheap CPU heatsinks may come with poor quality thermal paste.
I imagine some cheap CPU heatsinks may come with poor quality thermal paste.
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Combine that poor stuff with Intel's recent cpu issues, most people would burn through their PC at a faster rate.
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Hopefully, Intel fixes their quality issues soon. I imagine some people may switch to AMD computers for niw.
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I think they might have come out with a fix this month, but a lot of the damage would be done with by now.
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I watch a YouTube video that Intel may have money problems if they refund a lot of users.