We lastly obtained to smell scented thermal paste — and we obtained it on video

Thermal paste, the heat-transferring goop that goes between a pc chip and no matter you’re utilizing to chill it down, is boring. Does it work? Is it environment friendly? That’s all I care to know. However PCWorld’s Adam Patrick Murray, veteran expertise journalist and scent savant, has been searching scented thermal paste for years. He discovered it at Computex 2025.

ID-Cooling is the seller, Frost X55 is the paste. It’s being supplied in 5 totally different scents: Luna, Viola, Bella, Poma, and unscented. If you wish to watch Adam shove little capsules of smelly chemical compounds underneath his nostril, see beneath for the video. Get pleasure from.

The precise “flavors” of scent aren’t usually hitting the mark. “I don’t imply to be imply, it’s not a foul scent, but it surely kinda smells like diapers,” mentioned Adam when sniffing the Viola taste, which is meant to be floral. “No, no, no, no, no, a clear diaper, let me make clear! A clear diaper is what it smells like, not a grimy diaper!”

ID-Cooling might be promoting the paste within the ordinary squeeze tubes. However I’m wondering how a lot of the scent will truly make its means into the room after you’ve used it in a desktop PC. “I’d be prepared to pay additional for comparable, or possibly even much less efficiency, simply to get this scent in my home,” says Adam.

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