You may or may not know it, but between the chips and the cooling on many of your PC components, like your CPU and GPU processors, there’s a bit of grey paste specifically designed to make a clean, thermal connection to ensure maximum cooling efficiency.
This paste is more commonly known as Thermal Paste, and it’s an essential piece of your setup, whether you know it exists or not.
However, while many companies have been working on ensuring the chemical substance has the best heat-transferring capabilities without getting dry and crumbly or turning into a complete liquid, the guys over at ID-Cooling have thought, “Hey, what if we can make this smell like an apple?”
This year, at Computex, the cooling company advertised its latest Frost X55 Thermal Paste, which now comes in five—well, actually four—distinct scents for users to slap into their chassis.
Unscented, Viola, Luna, Bella and Poma. In order, these thermal pastes should smell like nothing, like flowers, the ocean, strawberry, and apple, but, according to PCWorld’s Adam Patrick, the scents are far from what they’re supposed to be. They’re not bad, they’re just not exactly flowers and apples.
What we’re all not quite sure of yet, however, is whether once the paste is applied, your gaming room will gain a fresh new smell from the heat of your overworked gaming rig or is this just a one-time thing to help get rid of the smell of screws and PCBS when you assemble your machine for the first time? I guess we’ll have to wait for ID-Cooling to release the Frost X55 paste into the wild for us to find out.
Check out the video below of Adam Patrick sampling each flavour, and giving his opinion on what they smell like, in the video below.
