Some thermal pastes are good for air cooling, others for liquid cooling, some are generally efficient, others are not. But as our colleague data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.igorslab.de/en/drama-second-round-amech-aimac-sgt-4-or-when-thermal-paste-becomes-a-source-of-odor-and-corrosion/” data-url=”https://www.igorslab.de/en/drama-second-round-amech-aimac-sgt-4-or-when-thermal-paste-becomes-a-source-of-odor-and-corrosion/” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Igor Wallosek discovered, there is a thermal paste that stinks and damages coolers. That thermal paste — Amech (Aimac) SGT-4 made in South Korea — appears to be quite popular in online stores around the world because it is cheap and gets favorable user reviews. Yet, SGT-4 appears to be a chemically reactive blend that stinks due to acidic vapors, permanently…
