{"id":3016,"date":"2017-05-23T00:10:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T06:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.respawnrepairz.com\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2017-05-23T23:09:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T05:09:29","slug":"thermal-paste-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/videogamerepairs.ca\/2017\/05\/23\/thermal-paste-why-it-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermal Paste: Why it matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/videogamerepairs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/PS4-thermal-paste-replacement.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3017\" src=\"https:\/\/videogamerepairs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/PS4-thermal-paste-replacement.jpg\" alt=\"PS4-thermal-paste-replacement\" width=\"1000\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/videogamerepairs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/PS4-thermal-paste-replacement.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/videogamerepairs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/PS4-thermal-paste-replacement-600x271.jpg 600w, https:\/\/videogamerepairs.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/PS4-thermal-paste-replacement-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRegular servicing of all your electronics is a must. \u00a0The steady build up of pet hair, dust, and debris are all at work trying to put on the chokehold. \u00a0Well we&#8217;re here to help you fight back!<\/p>\n<p>Over time, this build up will start to line the areas where air is designed to naturally flow through your machine. \u00a0This air flow in most systems is controller by a fan that will draw in cool room temperature air and pull it across a heat sink that is passively dissipating heat and in turn will wick\u00a0the temperature down. \u00a0As these main arteries start to close up from debris, your machines start to run harder and hotter to achieve the same level of performance they were delivering prior. \u00a0Imagine doing an exercise routine with a straw in your mouth&#8230;. not a fun time.<\/p>\n<p>Heat is generated mainly from your main processing units and on them, it is normal to find a white or grey gooey paste that helps conduct the heat to a heatsink above. \u00a0Thermal paste as its normally referred is critical for maintaining normal operating temperatures. \u00a0Over the years, it is natural for a reduction in the heat conducting capacity of this paste through the drying and hardening of this paste. \u00a0Through our years of working on machines, we&#8217;ve found many machines that from factory have very little or almost no thermal paste on their processors. \u00a0We encourage regular servicing of your electronics to maintain for years past their normal expiry date!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular servicing of all your electronics is a must. \u00a0The steady build up of pet hair, dust, and debris are all at work trying to put on the chokehold. \u00a0Well we&#8217;re here to help you fight back! Over time, this build up will start to line the areas where air is designed to naturally flow &#8230; <a title=\"Thermal Paste: Why it matters\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/videogamerepairs.ca\/2017\/05\/23\/thermal-paste-why-it-matters\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Thermal Paste: Why it matters\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/videogamerepairs.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/videogamerepairs.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/videogamerepairs.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videogamerepairs.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videogamerepairs.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/videogamerepairs.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videogamerepairs.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/videogamerepairs.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videogamerepairs.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videogamerepairs.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}