Amech, the maker of the thermal paste that stinks and damages coolers, has known about the issues with its product since at least October 2024, according to Igor Wallosek from Igor’s Lab. Instead of addressing the problem that damages coolers and can potentially lead to damage to expensive CPUs or GPUs, the company kept producing and selling the thermal grease. SGT-4 appears to be a chemically reactive blend that stinks due to acidic vapors, permanently damages CPUs and coolers with pitting from corrosion, and causes coolers to glue to the chip

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      I’ve always wondered why some people write 101 at the end of sentences. It seems to be something North Americans do, but I’ve never really understood what it’s supposed to indicate.

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        It’s kind of like saying this such a great example for whatever the subject might be, it could be taught as a beginners course, half joke half sarcasm

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        It’s a college thing. The course number for classes that introduce a subject to the students are/were SUBJ101, where SUBJ is the department/field of study, e.g., MUSC101 could be intro to music.