, wanted to see if adding salt to thermal paste would be the secret ingredient to unlocking supercooling. Spoilers: It was not.
His theory is that since iodized salt's thermal conductivity is higher than some thermal pastes, mixing the two would produce a miracle gloop with better heat transfer. Though Mryeester points out in his video, testing showed that temperatures spiked at 20 degrees above normal. The issue is that the salt rocks are thick, which creates a small gap between the CPU and the cooler, where you ideally want as much contact as possible.
For more insight on the experiment from the people that know cooling best, I reached out to Noctua. A hardware manufacturer that knows a thing or two about CPU cooling; it explained to me why introducing salt into your thermal paste is such a bad idea. After initially wondering if I were serious, which is a reasonable response since my day-to-day consists of asking hardware professionals if doing a ridiculous PC mod I saw online is a good idea or not, the company said that it"definitely doesn't recommend doing anything like that," then gave several reasons as to why salt should not be mixed with your thermal paste.
Who tf be seasoning their cpu. All did was Adobo the Ryzen!
That's how you get Rust.
Are they a little salty because it improves thermals so which means you don’t upgrade your cooler (joke)
If you're following a tiktok'r for computer build advice then you deserve the consequences of your actions.
wtf
Some people may wonder why things are done a certain way and change it up. Sometimes they have a breakthrough, but generally they learn why they're not the experts but others are, or at least are taught that lesson and it goes right through their head.
but...why? Why would one add salt?...
Well, if salt is bad and sugar is the opposite of salt... sugar is good for your temps, confirmed.
Who the fuck would do something that incredibly stupid anyway?
True over clockers know Pepper is actually the answer.
Who does that?🤨
mine works with salt and garlic just fine
Salt gets added automatically when I take a fat L. Can’t be helped
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Try and stop me. 😏🧂
Even if you ignore the salt, that's too much thermal paste.
who did that f'in shit
here let me just add a little dash
Salt? Really. 🙄
next you gonna be telling me niggas add pepper to their liquid coolers.
Salt and aluminum are a very bad mix
Salt does the same thermal hold for ice.
Salt is very bad at heat transfer, so I strongly do not recommend it. Applying salt will damage your pc. Only a fool would imitate….
Here is another tip, your mother board, never learned to swim. Big Scoop ey ?
BRO D:
Even if sodium chloride was the answer to some secret super cooling method, it's also a corrosive compound. That's not something you want touching your electronic components over a prolonged period.
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Why is this even an article? Who the fuck adds salt to their thermal paste? What in the actual fuck, ?
Every granule’s like an extra frame.
Well, salt is a white death... seems not only for people.
Wtf did I just read
anyone feeling exotic enough this winter, hang your radiator outside your window
Why would anyone add salt?
how about black pepper?
Hey guys, I saw this cool trick on tiktok that totally didn't have any editing magic on it!