IC Graphite Thermal Pad (40x40mm 2-Pack)

The thermal conductivity of these graphite pads aren't impressive when it comes to z-axis heat transfer (from the heat source to the heat sink), but they are extremely impressive when it comes to the x/y-axis heat transfer. I'm using this pad on a Ryzen 9 5950X and Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black heat sink and temps are identical to Arctic Silver 5 (20°C ambient, 32°C idle, 65°C load). I've been building PCs for over 20 years, thermal paste application is second nature to me. These pads have truly changed the game, at least in my eyes. The main benefit is for the newer Ryzen CPUs that have the CCX dies offset and not centered to the IHS. Most heat sinks are slightly concave and focus mounting pressure on the center of your CPU IHS. You can tell by putting your heat sink on a flat surface and see if it spins freely. These pads help transfer the heat from the sides of the IHS to the heat sink better than paste would. Stating the obvious here, these pads are reusable and require no cleaning after using them. They make testing heat sinks (and AIOs) so much easier since there is no thermal paste to clean up afterwards. They are safe to use on the IHS as well as the bare die if you want to use it on a GPU. I won't say it's perfect... because it's not. These pads have a specific use case scenario. While they do have a good thermal conductivity, that rating goes down the higher the temps get. As such, this pad will NOT perform as good as thermal paste if you're constantly running +85°C temps, making it a terrible choice if you are overclocking. I personally only use the PBO settings on my AMD CPUs and it handles the heat load just fine. I bought this from my local Microcenter because I was sick of wasting thermal paste when swapping between CPUs (troubleshooting). When I saw how great the temps were, I bought the two-pack from Amazon to make the swap on other machines too. Great stuff, I just wish I bought into it sooner.

Amazing thermal pad. Works better than thermal paste... 100% recommended

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Doesn't work as good as a decent thermal paste EDIT: it worked after all but not the extreme expectation coupled with the extreme price charged. TEST 1 GPU did not work for some reason TEST 2 CPU AM4 - Noctua NH-D15 took a couple of minutes to normalize and a reboot all works nicely but did not notice a difference in either clocks or temps running PBO

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