Arctic Thermo-Pad 50 x 50 x 1,0mm - Reviews
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5.2.2020
I used this to further mod my (somehow still alive and perfect) last-generation "openable unibody" 17" Macbook Pro. For cooling. Because everyone knows that Radeon chip is going to DIE if it runs too hot for too long, and then you have a *fried* Macbook Pro.I recently respread Arctic MX under the heat sinks, which went great, and dropped my temps by 20 degrees Celsius.I used this stuff (carefully trimming and in some cases stacking it) to place the heat pipe grille fins in touch with the top and bottom of the unibody case. The result? A warmer case exterior, top and bottom—and another 10 degree Celsius drop. YES!This stuff really works.More on what sort of material it is,
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,
5.12.2020
I shared the photo I did for functional purposes. At first when you are building or repairing a heatsink, there's alot to know as far as thickness, and how many exchanger pads and processors you must cover by cutting these strips to fit. Almost every notebook you encounter will have a 1.0 mm thickness, but I would not use the 0.5 and stack them. You need a solid attachment point and medium through which to conduct the heat away from your gpu and cpu. Air will act like an insulator, so you do not want that. I found the 145mm x 145mm to be a better value instead of the smaller 50 mm x 50mm. You buy one square and cut it as needed, and this is the perfect length for the typical strips used for processors in rows.
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.
15.4.2016
I used this for a DLP chip replacement on my TV. Some applications like mine should not use paste because it can squeeze out and get into areas you don't want. In my case it could get into the optics which would ruin the DLP TV. I think if the manufacturer originally used paste I would stay with that since paste is thinner and should have higher thermal conductivity, But, if you need to fill a space or a pad was originally used then this is a great product. You should choose a pad thickness that is about 50% compressed when installed. The higher the thermal conductivity the better it cools. This pad is rated at 6W/m-k which will be better than a lower number, say 3W/m-k.
5.11.2016
This is a really good value thermal pad. Performance is on par with most manufacturer included quality pads. But a step up from some others. They're not the best money can buy. But definitely the most cost effective. The size is good enough for two graphics cards or more depending on how many spots take thermal pads on the card. I could have easily done 3 MSI GTX 1080 Sea Hawk X EKs per pad. But you have to remember that the majority of EK water blocks require .5mm and 1.0mm thick pads. There is a 1.5mm thickness as well. But I've never needed it. These pads are easy to cut and easy to apply. They're a bit sticky, but not too much or too little. The size of these pads is great.
27.5.2015
The biggest challenge with thermal pads is usually a trade off between thermal conductivity and convenience of a relatively non-messy application compared to thermal paste. However, the 6W/m•K rating of this pad is nothing to be sneezed at. Many pads marketed as proper "thermal adhesive" type have a fraction of this rating. Though the Arctic pad is not marketed as an adhesive, it is actually very pliable and tacky so most small lightweight heatsinks actually stick readily to anything with a modest surface area. My use was to cool down an ICH 10 series chip that was generating temps in the 90's Celsius. The use of this pad and a small heatsink with some good airflow brought it down into the mid-60's to low 70's degree range Celsius maximum.
2.7.2017
I used this with the Arctic mx4 thermal paste. I'm running dual crossfire r9 390x at a 2k resolution. I was hitting 94 degree on my primary gpu clocked at 1060 and 1500 (stock speeds). I was hitting 68C with the secondary clocked at the same speeds. I used Heaven 4.0 Benchmark with ultra settings. With stock speeds, I'm hitting a max of 84C. Bumping up the settings to 1100 and 1600, I hit a max of 85C. For my secondary, I hit a max of 38C regardless of stock or overclocked speeds. Mind you, this is after benchmarking my card for 45 minutes.In game performance:MiscreatedPlayer Unknowns Battle GroundARKResolution: 2kWith medium settings I'm hitting mid 70's. I use vsync and push 60 frames.
20.12.2016
I decent budget thermal pad. These are far from the best pads money can buy, but they're at least on par with most factory installed thermal pads or even better than many in most cases. You may not see improvements over factory pads that are in good shape. But if you need replacements at a reasonable price, these are a great choice. They may improve your temperatures, especially on older graphics cards. My MSI GTX 1080 Sea Hawk X EK had these on it from the factory and it runs extremely cool on my system. I ended up having to replace the pad over the VRMs on one card because MSI botched the water block installation and the pad ended up folded over and ripped. So I'm glad I had these.
10.10.2015
Just the right amount of adhesion to stay in place with being sticky. Great thermal transfer.I used these to replace the sticky tape holding batteries in my MacBook Pro Retina. (what a pain in the ... to remove those from the tape).Putting these on top and bottom of the batteries created a thermal bridge to the case above and below them, which will be better than OEM.The pad is like a thin slice of stretchy putty between two plastic sheets.The plastic peels off both sides, but I left it on one side so that I can remove the batteries more easily if needed. The plastic surely is some insulation, but not a huge amount. Even through the plastic,
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,