Beware the vinegar smelling thermal paste
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 20 October 2025 09:44

Beware the vinegar smelling thermal paste


SGT-4 paste corrodes metal and glues your chip to the cooler

A thermal paste made by a South Korean outfit is earning notoriety for destroying CPU coolers, corroding copper and stinking up the place with a whiff of vinegar.

Texas boffins come up with new cooling material for data centres
Published in News


Its all about the thermal paste

Boffins at the University of Texas have taken time from their busy schedule of rounding up cattle to invent a new thermal interface material (TIM) that significantly outperforms existing liquid metal solutions in heat dissipation.