Can I use toothpaste as thermal paste?

[CowsGoRoar]

Hey guys, I have a 8 year old HP desktop. I pulled out the Celeron in it, and I have a spare Pentium 4. Just for the LOL's, I wanna see if there's any performance difference. 

I don't wanna spend a single nickel on it (pennies aren't used anymore in Canada  ), so can I use toothpaste? Mint keeps things cool, so I wanna try it. Anyone think it works?

Or at least encourage me to do it. I don't mind if I explode it.

[TEDWARDS]

if you don't mind then go for it and report back

[Piggy]

Why... But why not lol it wouldn't prevent heat.

[Aleks]

Yes you can use toothpaste. Although I wouldn't, it won't take long to dry up and become useless.

[Scionyde]

I think I read a topic here about somebody doing it, and it sort of worked...Obviously, it's not recommended.

 

 

 

Mint keeps things cool, so I wanna try it.

 

Of course! And don't forget to use a fan with a blue LED instead of a red one, so that it helps cool it even more!

[Ryan Leech]

Yes, but make sure that it has a high zinc content

[MellowCream]

Heres a tutorial on how to do that:

 

[amintha1992]

no... toothpaste has different thermal properties and its not a good conductor.

 

even though thermalpaste have almost the same sophistical properties they are very different.

 

you are better off spending $5 on thermal paste(which you can use later as well) than having to pay for a new CPU and or MOBO if you burn yours. 

[terrytek]

no... toothpaste has different thermal properties and its not a good conductor.

 

even though thermalpaste have almost the same sophistical properties they are very different.

 

you are better off spending $5 on thermal paste(which you can use later as well) than having to pay for a new CPU and or MOBO if you burn yours. 

You know this is just for LOLs, right?

[iruixos]

I sincerely hope OP is trolling.... >_>

[amintha1992]

You know this is just for LOLs, right?

lol or not.. burning a CPU is not funny. 

[nj4ck]

A german hardware website once did a test with things like toothpaste and ketchup vs. normal TIM. They performed quite similar, but will dry up, gunk up, start smelling and stop working after a very short time.

[Praxis727]

I've done it before... My Mobo lasted another 2 years before capacitors gave.  It is a toothpaste vaseline mix.  ALthough thermal paste is so cheap I would just use thermal paste.  The only reason I used the mix before is I did not have a car to go get some and I lived in the middle of nowhere.

[Akolyte]

Heres a tutorial on how to do that:

 

That makes me feel like I want to rip my **** off!

[CowsGoRoar]

I got my Pentium 4 for free.

[flibberdipper]

HELL NO.

 

I did this to my 2.0GHz Celeron and it overheated and puked. Smelled nice though.

[x Relentless Xx]

Hey guys, I have a 8 year old HP desktop. I pulled out the Celeron in it, and I have a spare Pentium 4. Just for the LOL's, I wanna see if there's any performance difference. 

I don't wanna spend a single nickel on it (pennies aren't used anymore in Canada  ), so can I use toothpaste? Mint keeps things cool, so I wanna try it. Anyone think it works?

Or at least encourage me to do it. I don't mind if I explode it.

[CowsGoRoar]

Nope.

[TheNinjaNextDor]

Yes, you can and it works, but not for long.

[stereophonie]

I use mouth wash in my custom loop for watercooling and that works well so I can't see why it shouldn't.

[CowsGoRoar]

LOL 

[loccilucas]

I've heard toothpaste works quite will actually