Noctua explains why the combination of salt and thermal paste is an ill-advised one after a TikTok video showing the salty thermal paste mod went viral.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but mixing table salt with your thermal paste to cool your PC processor (or any component) is a bad idea. Most people wouldn’t even consider it (I hope, anyway), but lest there be any doubt, cooling company Noctua explained why the combination is an ill-advised one after a TikTok video showing the salty thermal paste mod went viral.
The quirky experiment by TikTok user @mryeester has over 35,000 likes and several-hundred comments since the video was posted to the popular social media platform a while back. In it, @mryeester points out that the thermal conductivity of salt (sodium chloride, or NaCl) is 7 watts per meter Kelvin.
