Cheap thermal paste

[JupiteL]

Today I  bought a very cheap thermal paste near my house, about ~1$ (living in Indonesia) and there's no even any brand there. I know it's bad but it's should be only for temporary. I go to every hardware store and all of them have  gone sold (the shipment is kinda mess lately).

Should I shut my computer off and wait for the decent paste? what is the difference between this cheap ass paste and the real one?

[xAdam]

It might just be fake glue or something :S dont even use it :o

[mgsstar]

Cheap thermal paste will probably cause poor heat transfer from the cpu to the heatsink so the temps could be high. I would get better thermal paste before turning it on to avoid overheating your cpu. 

[Akula]

It will work fine.

You could run your computer on mayonnaise & toothpaste and it will be fine(for a small period of time)

 

Just grab yourself some MX-4 or something similar when possible.

[Woodypc]

The cheapest best one I would say is MX-2.

[orangecat]

If you can't tell the brand don't use it if you can even cheap paste will do fine unless you're doing subzero overclocking or have a very very high end setup.

[Wats]

Cheap paste is normally alright for sub zero...

 

 

It's prolly fine. It'll prolly last years too. The absolute worst that can happen is your PC will shut off to protect it's self.

[Morfy]

Thermal gunk is thermal gunk at the end of the day...Use it and get smth better when you can, also keep an eye on temp, other than that it's good to go.