Thermal Paste Diaries

Gaming hardware, benchmarks and builds without the hype

Mackenzie Dupuis2 episodes2 min of audio233 playsEpisodic

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S1 · E2Aug 12, 20260:57146 plays Preview

Why Your Handheld Dies in Ninety Minutes

Mackenzie tests four handheld gaming devices for real battery life, explains what drains them fastest, and gives settings that nearly double play time on a long flight.

S1 · E1Apr 22, 20260:5787 plays Members

An 800 Dollar Build That Does Not Cut Corners

Mackenzie builds and tests a gaming PC with a strict 800 dollar budget, explains every part choice, and shows where spending ten dollars more would have mattered most.

About the show

Thermal Paste Diaries is a weekly gaming hardware show from Montreal hosted by Mackenzie Dupuis, who has built and tested PCs for a hardware review site for eight years and still gets excited about a quiet case fan. Each 40-minute episode covers one thing properly: a graphics card launch and whether it is worth it at the real street price, a budget build under 800 dollars, handheld consoles and their batteries, controllers, monitors, the cooling mistakes everyone makes. Mackenzie tests everything herself, reads the numbers out loud with context, and says plainly when a product is fine and when it is not. There are listener build reviews, a monthly used-parts market check, and interviews with engineers who design the chips, the coolers and the controllers. It is for people building their first PC, people upgrading their fifth, and console players curious what is inside the box. No sponsor can buy a verdict.

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