Caught myself reusing thermal paste from a tube I opened back in 2019
Was doing a repaste on a customer's Dell XPS last week in my shop in Boise and grabbed the same crusty tube I've had since my first build. The paste came out separated and watery, and that's when it hit me, I've been squeezing old paste onto every CPU for 4 years without thinking. What do you guys do to keep track of when your paste goes bad?