Thermal pad versus paste

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@stulid or anyone.

I am reverting my Crosshair V Formula and FX9590 to air (at stock).

I have purchased a sheet of JunPus JP-P600 6W/m.k thermal pad to reseat the NB/VRM heatsink, replacing the water block. This should be ideal with a small dab of paste on the key components.

I am thinking whether a similar method could be used on the CPU itself. The cooler is a Silverstone HE-01. Or should I just use the usual paste only route?

Thanks, andy.
 
Paste would give you better heat transfer.

Ideally you want as little material as possible between the CPU and the cooler. The paste is there to smooth out any small imperfections in the surfaces and avoid air pockets.
 
IIRC I tried some of those blue thermal pads before on a GPU (memory etc) and found them to be too thick/hard so contact wasn't very good, EK thermal pads are much softer/better imo as they squish down and don't put up any resistance (you can also get them 0.5, 1mm & 1.5mm thicknesses depending on which is best). The GPU heatsink wouldn't actually contact the core when I used those blue thermal pads on memory etc. I think it was those JunPus ones they were definitely blue and quite hard.

As for using them on CPU definitely not, you want as small a gap between CPU (or anything else) and heatsink as possible, thermal paste simply fills in microscopic gaps where the heatsink and CPU are not physically touching.
 
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I actually need to get some new Thermal pads for my laptop GPU memory chips,
etc because the existing ones are all mucky. with dust, etc

I am not sure thought of the thickness of the existing Thermal pads.

My laptop is a Clevo d900f. What thickness do you think should do the trick?

I had a look for those EK thermal pads and I see they are actually meant for water blocks.

I take it you can use them on laptop chips, etc as well?
 
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