Macbook pro thermal pad

[panchinxd]

Hey guys i hope youll doing pretty well!

This is my first post on here, just been wondering about the Thermal Pad solution for better performance and cooling on the Macbook lineup! so i have the MBP 13, 2020 version i5 and 16gb of ram, and been wondering what size should i get to use it on my mac! talking about thikness, 0.5mm is gonna be alright? or should i go for a little bit more.

 

Thank you guys so much and have a great day

[Bombastinator]

56 minutes ago, panchinxd said:

Hey guys i hope youll doing pretty well!

This is my first post on here, just been wondering about the Thermal Pad solution for better performance and cooling on the Macbook lineup! so i have the MBP 13, 2020 version i5 and 16gb of ram, and been wondering what size should i get to use it on my mac! talking about thikness, 0.5mm is gonna be alright? or should i go for a little bit more.

 

Thank you guys so much and have a great day

What is commonly called The thermal pad thing is for m1 apple silicon macs afaik. If you’ve got an i5 it’s intel so it doesn’t even apply.  There might be something different available for your chip.  I don’t know.

[Darkseth]

That thermalpad was only for the Macbook Air.

Intel versions of the Air 2018-2020: Because of bad cooling

M1 Version of Macbook Air: Better heat dissipation.

 

I've never heared anyone use a thermal pad on a Macbook Pro.

And you don't need that, since it doesn't throttle that much, it gets hot, but it also holds a very high Boost clock and draws a good amount of Power.