Something ate thermal paste

[Reagan Reese]

Check this out! This looked pretty neat to me. The CPU was really hot as you would imagine! The little Chanel's looked like those bugs that eat wood. 

[arbellason55]

Sounds like a case of computer bugs, if your not careful they'll start gnawing on your RAM and start stealing your cuda cores for their nests. I'd suggest a healthy dose of compressed air throughout the entire system to flush em out.

[Syntaxvgm]

trump's america. 

[iamdarkyoshi]

Dried thermal paste naturally separates like that for some reason. If you look at the CPU and the heatsink, they will have thermal paste where the other is missing it.

[vanished]

I highly doubt anything ate it.  Thermal paste consists primarily of metals and other substances which few if any known lifeforms could function on alone.  Second, they would have to be able to withstand the temperatures reached by your (very hot, as you claimed) CPU.  Third, you would have to question how they would have room to live between the IHS and the heatsink.  Finally, how would they have gotten there in the first place?

[Drak3]

3 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I highly doubt anything ate it.  Thermal paste consists primarily of metals and other substances which few if any known lifeforms could function on alone.  Second, they would have to be able to withstand the temperatures reached by your (very hot, as you claimed) CPU.  Third, you would have to question how they would have room to live between the IHS and the heatsink.  Finally, how would they have gotten there in the first place?

They were joking, in reference to bugs that leave similar patterns in the wood that they eat.

[Reagan Reese]

10 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I highly doubt anything ate it.  Thermal paste consists primarily of metals and other substances which few if any known lifeforms could function on alone.  Second, they would have to be able to withstand the temperatures reached by your (very hot, as you claimed) CPU.  Third, you would have to question how they would have room to live between the IHS and the heatsink.  Finally, how would they have gotten there in the first place?

I thought my joke was obvious! Haha. 

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2 hours ago, Reagan Reese said:

I thought my joke was obvious! Haha. 

Perhaps but I couldn't take the chance it was serious