16.12.2018

This stuff is super easy to use. You'll see people complaining about it being slippery and hard to hold in place ... I had to install this under a desk on my home server, which means I could not lay the case flat. (The Corsair H100i V2 pump died and I was replacing it with an H100i Pro). So I put two tiny daubs of regular paste in the top corners of the processor and stuck it on with that. Then I put everything together and fired up the system.I had been using Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut liquid metal before this. It had dried out and failed after two years. It's a serious pain to install and it is really, really hard to get applied correctly. It's almost worse to try to clean it off.I used a Dremel and a buffing wheel and polished it off after getting the bulk removed with ArticClean binary cleaner. I'll never use that stuff again. BUT it did do a good job as a new install until it began failing. The problem is that eventually either your cooling solution or your thermal paste is going to fail and then you're going to be taking things apart ...Degrading thermal paste, even liquid metals, is a serious problem for high use, high availability, high performance, long duration computer systems. I have replaced the thermal paste on the processor for this machine at least a half dozen times because I've had at least a half dozen CPU coolers on this machine.The computer I'm using this pad on is an AMD FX 8350 Black (On an ASUS 990FX Sabertooth R1 board) that's been running this machine for over ten years. Pretty much everything on the machine has been replaced multiple times except for the processor and motherboard. The processor has a nearly 25% overclock running 24/7/365 (4.95 GHz) It serves all my multimedia (which is a LOT) and is my security camera server (22 cameras), plus the computer I use (3 video cards, six monitors) at the main desk in my shop/office/man cave. Because of the camera system, "idle" is never less than around 50% CPU clock cycles. I can and do use it for gaming though I'm not much of a gamer. It's not a gaming computer. Think more along the lines of a semi-truck than a sports car. It works hard. It gets hot. It's still doing a great job after all this time and I have no intention of replacing it one second before I have to.This is VERY impressive performance for a computer. I don't know if I got lucky with processor and board or it's just that this combination is particularly robust. Whatever the reason, it has been and continues to be a truly great machine.I don't want to trust the cooling system to just any old nonsense. That's why I tried Thermal Grizzly liquid metal last time. I thought long and hard about using this pad before buying and installing it. I'm really glad I did. My temps are almost exactly even with what I got with the liquid metal even though this pad is only rated for half the thermal conductivity that the liquid metal is. So the conclusion I've come to is that the liquid metal either wasn't applied optimally, it squeezed out to the edges when the cold plate on the pump was attached or some other unseeable and unknowable problem occurred ... OR both thermal conductors have maxed out the capacity of my cooling solution. It would not be at all surprising as difficult as that stuff is to apply on a vertical surface that there was an unseen problem in the installation.The pad was super easy. I just put a tiny little daub of TX-2 (that I had laying around, nothing special as far as pastes go) on the top corners of the CPU to hold the pad in place while I bolted on the pump. Those two tiny bits of paste are well away from the die and should in no way interfere with the heat carrying capacity of the system. I literally used paste to paste the pad on long enough to finish the installation.It should be noted that I bought the 40x40mm pad which covered the entire lid and that my CPU is obviously not delidded. I think that's important because it establishes maximum conductivity across the largest possible area. It's only $3 more for the larger pad, don't cheap out on this. Be sure to measure your CPU, look up the dimensional specs or just buy the larger pad and be prepared to cut it down.I also polished the CPU and cold plate with a Dremel and a buffing wheel using green rouge. I had to do that to the CPU to get all the liquid metal off so I figured I might as well do the cold plate while I was at it. I didn't lap it, I didn't mate the surfaces perfectly, I just put a semi-mirror polish on the surfaces free handed. Be careful if you do that so as not to create micro-concave areas that will cause problems with gapping.Temperatures are running around 40 degrees normal use (remember I said it never actually goes to "idle" in normal use?) to around 50 under max load and I don't stress test it with Prime95 or anything like that. There's no need to stress test it, all I care about are real-world results and it's under stress just because it's on. When I turn everything off and it is truly idle it sits just a couple degrees F (~24C) above ambient.As mentioned previously, this pad is rated about half the thermal conductivity of the Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut liquid metal it replaced and it does as well or slightly better on my machine. That could mean that both the Thermal Grizzly liquid metal and this pad are maxing out the possible conduction of heat between my CPU and the pump cold plate. This pad is rated for thermal conductivity about four times what MX-4 produces. There are other factors besides thermal conductivity that work together in determining the effectiveness of your cooling solution. If you're not getting as good or better results with this than you did with MX-4, you're doing something wrong and/or one of those other factors needs to be addressed. The incontrovertible proof of that is all the other highly positive reviews. If we're all getting excellent results and you're not, it is very likely something on your end that is the problem and not an issue with this pad. Unlike paste that can have unknown and unseen air gaps, bubbles, uneven spreading etc. this pad is either in place on clean surfaces or it is not. This isn't arbitrary. The physics of this mean that if it works for me, it works the same for you. If it doesn't work for you as well or better than MX-4 or a similar thermal conduction paste then it's a problem that YOU have, not a problem with this pad.I'm not saying people who have issues with this pad don't know what they're doing. I'm merely pointing out the irrefutable logic of the physical science involved. If all the pads are the same (meaning no manufacturing defects) and every installation follows the same basic process on the same basic materials ... (CPU heat spreader/lid > thermal conductor > copper cold plate) And the vast majority of installations are extremely successful but yours isn't -- Then it's not the pad. You need to find that other variable that's causing the problem if you want to get the same positive results the rest of us are getting. It's worth the effort because this pad is an amazing and highly effective solution. I've been building computers for almost 30 years so it's not like I'm a novice at this stuff, but if you want to challenge my logic please feel free to comment and we'll discuss it.SO -- The performance of this thermal pad is phenomenal. I'm very, very happy with it and the fact that it will outlast my water cooler is a big plus. (I now have three water cooler radiators laying around so I may just go to a reservoir fed open liquid system next time, and I can use this pad again if I do.) Time will tell if it actually resists the degradation that thermal paste experiences and if it dies like thermal paste I'll come back and amend this review. If you don't see an edit below then it's still doing a great job and that being the case ... I'll never go back to goop again.28 December 2020 - Two years later and the pad is still performing like the day I installed it. I have to shut down the machine and clean the radiator about twice a year but that's it. With a clean radiator on the overclocked processor previously mentioned this pad still works like brand new.

21.4.2019

I do a little bit of computer building now and then, and whether you build your own computers or not, the thermal paste that conducts heat from the CPU to the cooler will wear out over time. This is especially true with some companies, actually, some of the most expensive computers on the market (and I will leave names out here) which inexplicably use some truly poor quality thermal paste, and which tends to wear out over time. Why does this matter? Over time, the heating and cooling cycles of a CPU as you turn the computer on and off, and as you stress the CPU with normal processing tasks, will eventually make the thermal paste run and become uneven between the CPU and the adjacent cooler designed to pull the heat away from the processor.Over time, this means that heat transference from the CPU to the cooling system can become greatly reduced. Most computers have built-in thermal monitoring systems, which is a good thing, but as the system senses that the CPU is not staying as cool as it should, throttles back the CPU cycle speed to keep the heat down, resulting in decreased CPU performance. And that means your computer runs slower. If you have a computer that you’ve been using for more than three, four, or five years, there is a good chance that this phenomenon is occurring with your system. If that be the case, it’s time to pull the cooler off the CPU, clean off all the thermal paste as carefully as possible leaving as on both the CPU and the cooler in her face and then place new thermal paste, preferably of a much higher quality, on the CPU and remount the cooler. If people would do just that, just that alone would be a tremendous advance. The thing that makes this particular item unique is that it is not a liquid thermal paste, but is a single, solid piece of thermal conductor made using a knowledge of the thermal conductivity of particular materials to provide excellent thermal transmission without using liquid paste. I must confess I was a little skeptical at first, but I had a relatively high performance Intel processor that was beginning to report some overheating through my software monitoring system, and I thought I would give this new approach a try. After popping off the cooling fan and the cooling unit itself, I used at first soft paper towels to carefully remove the worst of the old thermal paste which had run and also had entire gaps just as might be expected (and anywhere there is a gap, little thermal transference is occurring). I then followed up with a clean microfiber cloth and cleaned both the CPU and the cooler interface until they were perfectly clean. At this point, I would normally carefully open up my new thermal paste, carefully distribute it on the surfaces, and try to spread it out as well as possible and remount the cooler. But with this product, all I had to do was drop the little square thermal pad on top of the CPU, ensure that the alignment was correct, and then remount the CPU cooler. It literally took 1/3 of the time (we’re talking about five minutes here) and there was no mess whatsoever at the end that needed to be cleaned up afterward as usual. Now for the big test. I powered up the machine and wondered what I would see. Would my system report overheating, perhaps even worse than before? Big surprise, my system temperature fell significantly, and even below to some extent what it might normally be, and I was delighted. Moreover, here is another really cool thing. If you’re into system building, or have any plans to change CPUs at any time, because of the design of this thermal square, you just remove the cooler unit and lift the square off again, it’s ready for reuse on a new system. (The square does not use any type of sticky adhesive: it is simply held in place by the force of the cooler tightened up against the CPU.) I do not know what the absolute lifecycle of this unit might be, but it is very clearly advertised as reusable, and this has enormous benefits. I am absolutely delighted with this purchase, I am very glad I found out about it, and impressed that it is at such a reasonable price. Highly recommended.

29.1.2021

CPU: Ryzen 9 3900XTCooler: NZXT X63 KrakenI at first tried with the stock thermal paste that came on the AIO (I went through 2 different coolers by this point because of the issues I was having with temps, found out now, it wasn't the cooler!!)... so I was not happy with the temps... I switched to using Mastergel Maker (not a cheap paste) and was not happy with the results I was getting. Temperatures were fluctuating oddly, I thought maybe something was wrong with my CPU, or bad mount, cooler sucked? (this happened both with stock paste and Mastergel Maker and can say it did make a LITTLE bit of a difference, not by much)... so I did some testing and tried different methods of applying the thermal paste and different mounting pressures...was almost running out of the paste, so I ordered this thermal pad.I have now had this thermal pad (40mm X 40mm) on for 2 days. I have done some testing... shared a picture, the max temp is after a Cinebench R20 benchmark.. 57.6c!!!! What??? Roughly around 32c at "idle" with multiple programs running in the background including.... Steam, a couple Google Chrome windows open (including this one currently while typing and another with a YouTube video running), Discord, ROG GPU Tweak II, NZXT CAM, Open Hardware Monitor, and on 3 different monitors at once, all programs with hardware acceleration off (so not using GPU to render said programs) I have also seen lower, around 27c with all programs closed, could go lower I'm sure of it with the fans on my radiator turned up, just no reason to. I am happy with 32c with all of these programs running. I am sure if I turned on hardware acceleration, it would be even lower temps because it would move the grunt of the load over to the GPU. (Yes I know even with hardware acceleration off, it still uses SOME GPU, but is mostly software rendered, which is using the CPU)Lol... okay this is way to long... long story short. DO IT. Don't listen to the haters, this is a legit review. These results are real. I was so worried about my new PC build until now. I thought I was doing something wrong. This thermal pad is amazing.Also, have not tested with 2 yet... might still do that... but have no reason to honestly! I am VERY satisfied with the results. Oh and also, I ordered on the 23rd, got it on the 26th. That is pretty fast. I also ordered late at night, so maybe it could have got here quicker?I saw some of the reviews with messed up thermal pads. I can say, mine arrived perfectly fine. No damage at all. I ordered the 2-pack 40mm X 40mm... MAKE SURE YOU GET THE SIZE FOR YOUR CPU!! Ryzen 3000 series NEEDS 40mm X 40mm. It does hang over a little 1mm-2mm maybe? (VERY LITTLE and you could trim it if you are going to be a perfectionist, I usually am, but I didn't trim it) the 30x30 will be too small... and yes it does slide around on you, but be patient and just make sure it stays in place. Do check, because it could short something out. With my motherboard, I'm really not worried about it as there aren't really any components near the socket, and it stayed in place for me pretty easily, the pad became a little concave, so I flipped it so the curvature was pointing up, as if it is hugging the CPU. Anyways, just wanted to leave a legit review with true experience.Totally worth it. Very satisfied. Okay, I'm done. Good luck fellow gamers and creators!! This is what you were looking for, I promise. OH, and yes I am overclocking, obviously from the screen shot.

31.8.2020

I'll preface this comment by stating credentials: I am starting my PhD in Systems Engineering, I have a MS in Mechanical and a BS in Mechanical. Concentrations are in thermal sciences - specifically heat transfer. As I write this, I am still performing load tests. I will provide - briefly - overview of the science behind why thermal paste (in general) works and the compare it to this product. Additionally, the vendor was very nice and polite, so that's a half-star in itself. They could be selling me dirt in a desert and as long as they're polite and helpful, they'd still get at least a half-star.Thermal contact resistance is a killer in the world of heat transfer.Microscopic imperfections within a material's surface can cause "no-contact" points and can bottleneck the heat transfer process. As a result, thermal paste is added to "fill in" these "gaps" and allow for heat transfer to occur at them, this increasing the overall amount of heat that is transferred, effectively lowering surface temperatures. This thermal resistance not able to be calculated, and must be measured 99% of the time.What my concern was with this product: That the graphite pad would not effectively "fill" these gaps that thermal paste does.Now for the analysis:I built a rig to run FEA analysis as well as to play video games last week. My processor is an i7 9800X, 3.8 Ghz, Asus Prime x299 motherboard with 128 GB of ram. Everything is SSD. and my cooler is a liquid cooled, Kraken x73 (3 120mm fans and pump speed is 2100 rpm). Ambient temperature in my home is 72F. And the PC had sufficient time to cool down between runs. Running two identical loads on my PC, utilizing all 8 cores of the CPU at 100% for ~1 minute, the average temperature that I get with a high-quality thermal paste is ~142F. With this thermal pad, it is ~149F.The differences are minor and there are tradeoff, of course. If you are building a rig for gaming, this pad would be just fine for you. If you are building a medium rig for FEA processing and are around 8-10 cores, then this might be pushing it. I would not recommend this pad for the serious workstation that utilizes more than 10 cores.There is also the topic of maintenance. You don't really need to replace this pad, versus changing thermal paste every year or so. for a 7 degree difference, I'll take the pad over the paste. This is well within the temperature operation range. All in all, unless you're doing some legit work for a high end developer, this pad should suit you just well. I would not recommend this be reused, however. The pad is mildly springy, and thermal resistance is a function of contact pressure. Don't jinx it. Buy a new pad, do not reuse.*** TLDR: differences are trivial. Will probably work fine unless you're running complex multicore calculations at 100% on a CPU of 12 cores or greater. I will keep this pad on for the time being. I recommend the purchase if you are a gamer or you are doing non-intensive processing work ***

22.9.2018

So I have a custom water loop in my system, two radiators and two waterblocks. The GPU waterblock has been giving me fits for months because in order to get even distribution across the GPU die you have to turn the screws in a very particular pattern and the thermal paste would still get distributed to all but one corner of the die (not the same corner). I figured out there was a gap between the GPU die and the block so removed all my thermal pads and replaced them with K5-pro which worked like a dream (see my review of the stuff here on Amazon). Still, I wanted a better solution for the actual die, so I've tried thermal paste from thermaltake (G7), Arctic MX-4, and Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut.All of them performed well but all of them would still get messy and the temps on my Titan X would start out great but then slowly get worse over time instead of getting better as the paste "cured".I saw some of the mixed reviews on YouTube first and began researching this IC graphite thermal pad. Knowing that I could destroy my rig if this stuff touches the wrong component I decided to go for it. I took apart the GPU block, cleaned the die of any thermal compound, cut the IC graphite pad to fit the die of the GPU exactly and replaced the waterblock.After filling and bleeding the system and getting back into Windows the card reported 24C at initial and rose to 25C at idle. At full load, depending on what I'm doing, the temps get to about 43C on most titles and there are a few where it will reach 49-50C after some 30 minutes at 99% load.Overall I'm very pleased with this product. Installation was easy and there is no mess to clean up. I admit I was hoping the thermals would be slightly better but then again I did expect it to be a 1 or 2 degrees hotter than the thermal paste applications. The pad helps to fill any gap that was still left over after using the K5-pro on the mosfets, and vram, and the temps of the GPU fall quickly as soon as the load is reduced after exiting a game or even during games depending on what is on screen or if it switches to a cutscene or something the temps fall quickly and the temps slowly rise after you continue play.Great product, if you are okay with the risks get it, take your time when applying it and enjoy.Update 10/05/2018-I now have an additional IC Graphite thermal pad on my i7-4930K cpu and the temps are great. The base clock for the 4930K is 3.4Ghz with a boost up to 3.9Ghz, and I have mine overclocked to 4.6Ghz. At idle it sits at 26*C and pushes 55*C at full load with Prime 95. With real world use outside of Prime 95 it never comes close to this as it never hits 50*C.My GPU temps have also gotten slightly better with initial temps sitting between 20*-22*C idle temps at 24*C and load temps still maxing out at 42*C with the exception of a few titles that can push it to 46-50*C for a few seconds at a time (e.g. Witcher 3, Final Fantasy XV, and Rise of the Tomb Raider).

15.10.2020

***Update 10-18-2020: Based on my findings below, I have decided to replace the Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Thermal Paste currently in my i9-9900K Setup with the Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML360P AIO to the other, unused (it is a 2 pack), IC Graphite Thermal Pad to see if it reduces temps. Will update my finding soon....Wow, I Did not expect to see what I saw when benchmarking or Stress Testing my new Ryzen 3900X Build with respects to Temperatures using the Innovation Cooling Graphite Thermal Pad vs Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Thermal Paste and an i9-9900K Build using Identical 360mm AIO's from Cooler Master.So my i9-9900K Build is overclocked to 5.0 GHz and being cooled by a Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML360R AIO with the Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Thermal Paste.

19.9.2018

Just got done installing the pad and running some quick heat runs. This does do a great job of taking the guess work out of how much goop to apply; You just set it on the CPU and move right along with the HS/F install. On a s1150 i5, there is no trimming needed with the 30x30. There is a slight amount of overhang but not enough to spend time trimming it off. For just this easy install, it made me smile at step one. In all, the HS/F swap out took 13min from shutdown to firing the PC back up.I can't give a factual set of data since I also changed the heatsink/fan, but I'm assuming there's no burning in the interface since it's graphite. The swap was from a Thermalright Macho Rev.B to a Noctua NH-U12S which is much smaller all around, possibly a better cooler, and used both IC Diamond and Grizzly on the TR Macho. Temps are exactly the same as the prior setup right from the get-go. Ran Prime95 In-place FFT's and it ran the i5-4690K up to 64C from 40C idle in 26.6C (80F) ambient (CPU at 3.9Ghz, 1V, fan at 900RPM, averaging all 4 physical cores). All useless info with all the changes, but seeing it's exactly the same results as the one-use pastes and a physically smaller HS/F, right after the install; I'm impressed.I'm back with you Innovative cooling! Anyone that has hung out in Overclocking sections of forums knows of IC Diamond and may have been part of a sample kit sent to you to try, which is a good move since trying something is the best way to let a consumer actually see the results. It's just too bad there's really no way to send out samples of these pads the same way because I really think people will be impressed right away...even current Innovative Cooling users of their pastes (the paste takes the laser etching off the lids).I'm not sure this is a great item for Delidding, but it could be...I don't know. Delidding a $360-$425 i7 is always scary to me no matter how many times it turns out great, so I won't be doing that again just to try this pad out for that use just yet. I think there's enough material for a couple applications though with a 30x30 pad.I'd love to give a 5-star review because I'm impressed now, but perfection is very rare and I simply didn't do a 1:1 comparison with any solid baseline in a control environment. I also have no idea how it's reusable. Does it remain on the CPU or on the HS/F base...or partially both and it's kinda ripped to shreds? No idea. I'd like to think, since it's graphite that it's still just a pad that comes right off and you must move it to the new build...but dang that sounds too awesome to be true! We'll see. But for now, treat this 4-star like a 5-star until otherwise noted. It's just too easy and it works.

11.10.2019

For my last couple of builds I've used Noctua NT-H2 thermal grease... This time I decided to try Innovation Cooling's Thermal Pad.This build is a i7-9700k on a MSI Z390 Gaming Pro Carbon mobo with a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo cooler. I have a MSI GTX980Ti, which if anything, reduces reduces the load on the CPU and it's iGPU. I'm not a massive overclocker and this rig isn't particularly high end... This review should be considered to represent just your average build for average use.I have used the 30mm x 30mm pad which is suitable for any of your LGA1151 CPU's (i3/i5/i7/i9) which measure 37.5mm x 37.5mm.If you get the 40mm x 40mm pad you may have to trim it as the Thermal Pad is electrically conductive.I built the new rig using the Noctua grease (I use the pea method for thermal compound) installed the i7, installed the OS and ran it in for a couple of days.I then ran the PC Mark 10 benchmarking software a few times (which to be fair doesn't stress the cpu to much but it does give a reasonable idea of real world usage) and then tried recoding a couple of videos to get an idea of the temps.I then popped out the cooler, cleaned off the Noctua compound, and installed the Innovative Cooling Thermal Pad, and repeated.All in all I saw very little difference using the Thermal Pad. Any variation, if anything, could be put down to normal variation in my use and testing.The real winner however is convenience! Easy to install. No mess. No more "have I done it right". And it is reusable. I give this product 5/5 for convenience and given it doesn't appear to have any cooling performance penalty (for an average user such as myself) I have no problems at all recommending this product based on convenience alone.Will this mean the end of thermal compound? Unlikely. At this price point it is slightly more expensive than a tube of good thermal compound - which is fine. However, for a REGULAR builder of NUMEROUS systems ONE tube of compound will build many systems... So those guys will definitely get their money's worth out of a tube. BUT, for an OCCASIONAL rebuilder/upgrader of a SINGLE system who finds they need to buy new thermal paste each time, because the old tube has gone off and most of the tube is wasted (Noctua claims 3 year shelf life), this is a no-brainer as the Innovative Cooling Thermal Pad can be reused - so never a need to buy thermal compound again.And did I mention the convenience?As for longevity, I am yet to see how long this product will last or whether it will degrade with use and heat and age. I guess we have to wait and see, but I don't imagine it will.I hope this helps.Cheers.

16.2.2019

Got this just cause I was curious how it would fare against some thermal paste I got from best buy (needed it asap, so my only option was local). I haven't been very scientific about this, but I feel like I'm getting around the same temps with a couple degree delta when I occasionally check on HWinfo. Main selling point was the fact that it essentially lasts forever and probably isn't that much worse .Installation:Was a little worried that the overhanging edges of the sheet might be problematic (i7 4770), so I snipped it just the tiniest bit. I'm a little OCD so I lifted up my heatsink tower (NHD14) a couple of times before I screwed it in just to make sure it was covered completely.Conclusion + Who should buy it?:I'm sure most thermal pastes work about the same.

27.3.2020

[ Purpose ]I am using this on my new 3rd Generation Ryzen 5 3600x CPU with stock cooler, Wraith Spire.[ Adhesion ] 2 out of 5 starsComing out from the packaging and onto the CPU: the pad is very light, smooth, and bigger than my CPU. Centering the pad was very difficult to do, due to the bowing of the pad. If there was some sort of adhesion that didn't interfere with the thermal and conductivity. It would be a superior product and common replacement for thermal paste. When placing the stock cooler, I still had trouble keeping the pad centered. I would still have the same issue if I flipped the pad over and placing the stock cooler on top of it.Once the stock cooler was installed and the pad was between the stock cooler and CPU.

7.1.2019

OLD REVIEWI did not think this would work at all to be honest but i was wrong. 40 x 40 is in fact the way to go for for a ryzen cpu as im currently using a 2700x. Im sure i would have lower temps if i had a better cooler as getting this pad to stay still without moving around while using the wraith prism stock cooler is a absolute pain in the ass with the latches the cooler has so im hoping it's actually centered well enough as i was as careful as i could have been. This pad does in fact work lowering my temps to 35c on average idel and maxing no higher than 66c-70c during heavy usage or a cpu stress test which use to reach well over 80c while using paste.I am very happy with how this performs

11.7.2018

There are plenty of negative reviews, which at best, show the ignorance or incompetence of the end user.This is for users who want to install a one time thermal solution and not have to reapply paste. You will not get the same amount of performance as higher end paste or LM but that is the trade off. In my personal experience I get about the same performance as a stock thermal paste solution.This is also great for users who swap coolers/CPUs on and off of a system consistently. The thermal pad is surprisingly durable and can have creases and minor bends and still function correctly if you straighten it out as best you can.

21.4.2019

Had to make absolutely sure this stuff worked - and not just in an okay way before putting up a review.Now, typically, whenever I open any of my Lenovo laptops to apply a new coat of Arctic silver 5 thermal paste I would notice that while the CPU die surface had paste on it, the GPU surface had a thermal pad. Don't really understand why this was so (can only speculate).Now my Thinkpad X220 -- purchased as "used" on ebay ran really hot over a short period of use ( 66C to 76C with light to moderate load, while idle it was 46C to 56C ).So, watched a few DIY Youtube videos on disassembling it to get to the fan and heat sink. I left the thermal pad on the GPU untouched (looked in good condition anyway)

4.5.2020

Decided to give this a try because A) I was swapping a couple processors back and forth, and B) I ran out of my usual paste (Arctic Silver 5). I tested this product on a Ryzen 3 2200G and a Ryzen 3 2300X, both stock, and an AMD Wraith Stealth cooler.Installation was simple, though moderately nerve wracking, at first. The graphite pad's surface texture is a bit slick, and since it goes on the processor dry, it can shift around very easily. As long as you can sit your cooler down on it cleanly and carefully, and not have to shift or twist it to get things lined up, you'll be fine. Having done it a few times now, it's far easier (and less messy) than messing with paste.

30.1.2019

I bought both the 30mm and 40mm, so this review is for both of them.One of my hobbies is in building and modding vintage computers and game consoles of all types. When it comes to x86 PC's a have a fairly large collection of parts. I find myself building and rebuilding them on a regular basis to see what I can get out of them in terms of both performance and compatibility.I've long since been sick and tired of cleaning grease/paste TIM's and stcky pad TIM's deform and get too dirty to reuse more than a couple of mounts.These pads are perfect for everything, starting with higher end 486's up to Athlon64's.

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