EVERYTHING IN COMPUTING IS POLARIZED. Nvidia or AMD? Apple or Windows? PC gaming or console? There’s a whole plethora of argument-inducing debates to be had and statements and brands to align yourself with. And that is very frustrating, because a lot of the time it genuinely gets in the way of real progress and learning. Nowhere is this more evident in computing than with the “debate” surrounding the application of thermal paste.
When you take a step back and think about it, it sounds insane. How can arguments descend out of this madness? Surely the way someone applies thermal paste isn’t worth having a fight over? This journalist has to admit he didn’t always think like that. There was one way of applying thermal paste, and that was it. It was only after being challenged by our resident modder and peripheral guru, Dave Alcock, that he finally did a bit of testing, and changed his ways.
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