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
So, don’t buy shit from Amech.
Don’t buy ANY shit from Amech.
Ever.
Why is anyone even buying this paste? Artic and Thermal Grizzly are both well under £10 for a syringe.
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.
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, non 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.
Amech (Aimac) SGT-4 in case anyone was wondering.
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
Oooh, free 386! Wohoo!
The Ea-Nasir of thermal paste
They treated my servant with contempt!
I mean my server!
How to turn one sentence into five hundred 101
That’s a roundabout way of writing 50500
It’s like they went out of their way to make seemingly the worst thermal paste possible
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.
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.
Isn’t toothpaste relatively decent as those things go?
At first, but it dries out fast.
Sounds like a drop of paraffin would be a good option.
Thats plenty applied in the picture.
