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16.1.2017
If you have a steamy laptop, then these are great for connecting your heat-producing areas to your laptop chassis. If you have a laptop with aluminum or metal body, then use these pads to create contact points to the metal body. The metal body has a much larger surface area and can absorb and dissipate heat much better. This will lead to overall cooler-running laptop. I did this with my laptop and it lowered the temps of my laptop quite a bit. Many online reviewers say this thermal pad is as good as some thermal pastes which is amazing. Installation is easy, they are sticky and will adhere to most surfaces. You can easily use a pair of scissors to cut them to whatever size you need.Since putting these on my laptop,
13.10.2015
I needed a 1mm thermal pad to replace the torn factory pad on a Dell Inspiron 1525's chipset and this fits perfectly. After fitting this pad the chipsets idle temperature has dropped by about 10 degrees C according to Aida64. Texture wise it feels soft and squishy, just like the old Dell installed T-flex 540 pad.You'll need a sharp pair of small scissors like on a Swiss Army knife to get a clean cut, otherwise the pad could tear around the edges. I measured the old pad for this laptop to be around 20mmx16mm so I aimed for those measurements when it came to cutting a size.Unlike thermal paste where less is more you should aim for a small amount of overhang on all sides as this will prevent the
11.10.2017
I bought this to improve the performance on my XPS 15 9560 laptop.This laptop is powerful, but there is a slight design fault. The VRMs on the laptop have no cooling capacity (no thermal pads or heatsinks). When you use the laptop at high load for a long period of time, the CPU and GPU temperatures may be cool, but the VRM temperatures can become really high (as high as 95C!). When this happens the laptop will thermal throttle, lowering its clock rates and reducing performance.I followed an online guide and stacked 3 of the 1.5mm thick 6W thermal pads ontop of eachother on three of the hottest VRM chips, such that the thermal pads touch both the VRM and the aluminium back panel of the laptop.
27.11.2020
The performance of this thermal pad is amazing.I used this product to replace aging pads for VRM components, installed by the manufacturer on my Asus laptop.The old thermal material that was used on the VRMs was all dried out and messed up. I was able to cut this to size No problem - and the thickness of this material matched up with the stock material.? System is much quieter and cools better too.ⓘ Make sure to clean the VRMs, Chips properly before use.If it’s not a brand-new surface, use Alcohol and Cotton cloth to remove any grease/oily residue, may need some cleaning with pencil-eraser to get everything off.ⓘ If you have a laptop with metal body - then use these thermal pads to contact the
19.10.2019
After cleaning the vaporised residue of ectoplasm from my CPU and heat sink, opened the packet to a familiar smell.I began cutting this down to size with a pair of scissors, but quickly realised it also had a familiar consistency.Then I picked it up to place it on my CPU.I realised why it was so familiar.That slightly sticky feeling on my fingers.That slight stench of the first years of school.Is it blu tack?Is it putty?Is it really solid thermal paste?Who knows.I shrugged and dumped it on the CPU, then set about crushing it beneath the mighty heat sink.After some effort, it finally clicked in to place, and lo and behold - it was about as effective as the crusty layer of dust I'd just removed.Turns out the old heat sink is irredeemably dirty.Fortunately,
12.11.2019
I placed a section of this thermal pad onto my XPS 13 9360r (i7 8550u)'s cpu heatsink and saw my temperatures drop significantly throughout the cpu intensity range. It now idles below 40 C whereas it previously was in the 50s and 60s. It acts as an insulatior so my CPU no longer spikes in temperature while the frequency turbos up for a short period of time. While it can still peak at 99 degrees, it settles around 75-85 during intense workloads rather than maintaining 99.The obvious downside is that the bottom of my laptop gets significantly hotter than before, and can occasionally become uncomfortably hot, even through clothing. Additionally, as it acts as an insulator,
15.6.2015
I give it 5 for the experience, and it's great for what it's meant for. I don't want to ruin that, I do want to say, don't bother expecting it to be tacky enough to hold a heatsink based on "surface area" as one reviewer said. Or at least, don't interpret it as ratios of surface area to weight of the heatsink. It's absolute surface area, in other words, it's not going to hold small heatsinks well, no matter how light, no matter it's large surface area to volume ratio. It's not going to work. I was hoping it would stick heatsinks to my drv8825 pololu stepper motor drivers. Seems there aren't a lot of good options for this beyond the garbage thermal conductivity of the 3m tape.
25.9.2015
Bought this product to replace a couple worn out thermal pads on my Dell Latitude E6410. The heatsink connects the CPU and GPU into one common heatsink with the CPU using thermal grease and the GPU using thermal pads such as this. I had previously replaced the thermal grease for the CPU and just cleaned the GPU and reapplied the old thermal pads. BIG mistake! The computer had never overheated before but now would regularly overheat unless it was on my fan pad. So I hopped on Amazon to see about finding some new thermal padding and found this. Opened the computer up again, cleaned all the chips and heatsink super thoroughly, and reapplied the CPU grease and the new thermal pad to the GPU.
2.4.2019
I used this to correct my Strix Vega 64 poor vrm pads. I didn’t want to spend a ton on ordering the thermal grizzly minus 8 pads to Canada, so figured I’d try these (stacked no less) first.Making sure to avoid any air bubbles (and re positioning if I saw one) I stacked 3 1mm pads together for the requisite 3mm pad thickness for the Strix card.They ended up dropping 20 degrees off my overheating gems, from 115 on stock (while stress testing) down to 95 max (well within the 105 thermal throttle temp for the card).I actually ordered the gelid extreme 3.0mm pad as well to compare, and there wasonlu anout 1 degree difference between the two,
11.5.2019
If you're looking into these to use in a PS4, the 1.0mm are excellent and I used them in my personal PS4 Pro. The stock pads that come in the PS4/Pro do not cover the whole memory chip and this causes overheating even if you've done a thermal paste change and dusted your console. There are 6 chips on the CPU die side and the backside there are 8 which are larger. Cut the thermal pads all to size for both sets of chips. If you're wondering about post-results, my personal PS4 Pro is very quiet even for having a Delta fan which used to be noisy before the thermal paste/pads change. For reference, my PS4 Pro is a CUH-7115B and I used Arctic MX-4 thermal paste for the CPU die.
7.7.2020
I used to replace some damaged pads on my GPU, worked perfectly and easy to work with too. Some tips - throw in the fridge for 30 mins prior to applying, this will make it more durable and more "solid" as long as you work fast. When cutting to size, do not remove the protective plastic. When applying to a component, remove one side of plastic, and put that face down first, apply a small amount of pressure to help the pad adhere, then use your finger nails or a tweezer to remove the top layer of plastic.I believe following these instructions will avoid any of the pitfalls that the negative reviewers have fan into.
2.12.2020
Used it on my xps13 9343, core temps haven't gone past 80 with multiple programs like Premiere, Photoshop, Chrome, Solidworks etc running concurrently. Bottom of the laptop does get hot (as expected) so I use it on a table/desk. Installation was a breeze, no adhesive needed as the pad is sufficiently sticky and easy to cut to the desired shape too. Note that it sticks to the bottom aluminium cover of the laptop (of course it has to be in contact with this bottom cover in order to pass heat to it) which means it takes some nudging to get this cover off whenever you need to take this bottom aluminium cover off.
29.1.2018
Needed to add a heat shield to something and rather than buy a little piece this is a sheet about 1/2 the size of A4 paper at 0.5mm thick and comes flat in a poly bag delivered via postman in a Jiffy Bag !My only criticism is that I would have liked it to have a slightly better adhesive quality as it's a pain holding it to a vertical plate as gravity rules and it will slip down . . . Can I use double sided tape . . . or glue or anything . . . couldn't find any comments and I don't know what it will do to the heat transference qualities . . .IN place now and I hope I don't have to access it again !
1.9.2018
My 10 year old NVIIDIA GTX8800 was playing up, various unwanted errors (short lines, patterns, and program crashes) seen on the display. The problem wasn't very consistent. As a "now long in the tooth" electrical engineer the symptoms suggested a thermal problem so I replaced all the thermal pads between the heat sink and the ICs with this item which was easy to cut to the various sizes needed. I also used the associated thermal paste to guarantee good thermal contact. Result: I now have a working NVIIDIA GTX8800. N.B. I did not attempt to re-flow the solder as some suggest to fix this problem.
11.11.2019
It performs fairly great. I didn't only change the pads, but also the paste, so I can't really tell if it's the pads that's doing a great job or the paste (most likely the paste). In the end, if you need to change the pads, just give this one a go. This will be sufficient for most laptops, especially if it's not a high-end gaming machine that produces tremendous amount of heat. After changing both the pads and the paste, I got about 15 to 20 Celsius lower temperature. I only bought one and applied it for my Predator Helios 300 (2017 version). It's enough if you're able to use all of it.