Arctic starts selling thermal pads that you can cut

[Bloodyvalley]

ARCTIC Thermal Pad bridges problem-free even large spaces. After multiple awards with its thermal pastes, ARCTIC is now offering thermal pads as well. As perfect gap filler the Thermal Pad provides an optimal heat transfer and bridges even large height differences and uneven surfaces.

Often it is troublesome to cool diverse components like memory chips, CPUs, MCUs, DSPs and other ICs densely packed. Different heights prevent a proper contact to the heatsink and thus make it useless. The thermal pad is perfect to close even large spaces completely. Due to its low hardness this silicon pad adapts ideally to uneven surfaces, also at low pressure and thus ensures the best possible heat dissipation. In the comparison test the Thermal Pad with its special filler and a high thermal conductivity can demonstrate its performance and leaves the competitors behind.

That's maximum performance at a minimum effort, since the installation of the Thermal Pad is child's play - perfect for beginners. It does not contain any metallic particles, is electrically isolating and not capacitive. The handling is safe as contact with any electrical trace would not result in damage of any sort.

QUICK FACTS Thermal Pad High Performance Gap Filler

• Electrically non-conductive
• Thermal conductivity 6.0 W/mK
• Safe and easy handling
• Measures:
• o 50 x 50 x 0,5 mm | x 1 mm | x 1.5 mm

  o 145 x 145 x 0,5 mm | x 1 mm | x 1.5 mm

•  

The Thermal Pad is now available starting at a price of US $4.99 on Amazon.

 

Not sure if this beats thermal paste

 

 

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[Blarghinston]

This is cool though. For my next build probably when Skylake-E comes out I will give this a try.

[TheKDub]

Could be useful for modding your gpu or such.

[DIV1D3]

So you can use this absolutely anywhere? CPU, GPU, HDD?

[PercySavageEG]

This is very interesting, I've personally always thought that the idea of thermal pads were much more convenient than thermal paste, really excited to see what are the different possible applications for something like this.

[Levent]

Last I heard, thermal paste tends to perform better

 

I think linus should have luke do some benchmarking to compare temps between thermal pads and thermal paste.

thermal pads and thermal paste have different application usages. You cant use thermal pads on gpu core die or use thermal paste on VRM's and VRAM's.

[slightlyjaded]

I see thermal pads as more designed as a gap filler.

 

"Due to its low hardness this silicon pad adapts ideally to uneven surfaces, also at low pressure and thus ensures the best possible heat dissipation."

 

Means a Bunch of objects at different heights can all make maximum contact with the heat sink. Just my take on it.

[TheKDub]

thermal pads and thermal paste have different application usages. You cant use thermal pads on gpu core die or use thermal paste on VRM's and VRAM's.

 

I know, but in some situations you could use either of the two, such as on a CPU.

[Levent]

I know, but in some situations you could use either of the two, such as on a CPU.

you cant use thermal pads on regular consumer CPU's such your own 4690 but they are used on small arm cpu's or soc's that doesnt require that great of a cooling

[TroubleKlef]

These remind me of ice hot patches. I wonder what happens if I stick one of these thermal pads on my plums.

[TheKDub]

you cant use thermal pads on regular consumer CPU's such your own 4690 but they are used on small arm cpu's or soc's that doesnt require that great of a cooling

 

I've seen them used in laptops and such before, and I'm sure they'd be fine for lower power CPUs as well.

[Notional]

I think I have some 10 year old thermal pads, you can cut out. Hardly news or new product category.

[Trik'Stari]

you cant use thermal pads on regular consumer CPU's such your own 4690 but they are used on small arm cpu's or soc's that doesnt require that great of a cooling

Why can't you? Not enough heat transfer?

[The_Strict_Nein]

Why can't you? Not enough heat transfer?

Yeah, I think thermal paste filling a metal to metal contact is an order of magnitude more conductive than pads.

Pads are used when the surface of the component to be cooled isn't metal, or on very low power parts

[ExDreamer]

you cant use thermal pads on regular consumer CPU's such your own 4690 but they are used on small arm cpu's or soc's that doesnt require that great of a cooling

Stock cpu cooler does come with thermal pad. So i don't see any problem here.

 

 

How about thermal pads? Thermal pads are also different. They're a lot easier to install, but aren't as effective as a beautifully thin layer of thermal paste (or grease, etc.). Some stock CPU coolers come with pads, because they're nice and clean, and they'll work fine.

http://www.pcgamer.com/whats-the-difference-between-thermal-paste-grease-and-pads/

[NumLock21]

Those are mostly use in mobile cpus and gpus. One problem with them is, when dust falls on it, it's very difficult to clean it off. So you'll have to be extra careful while handling it. Don't want dust or fingerprint oil to get on it.

[Suika]

I wonder if these perform any different than stock thermal pads on a GPU.

[Victorious Secret]

I think I have some 10 year old thermal pads, you can cut out. Hardly news or new product category.

 

That is entirely off topic to what this post is about. The OP is sourced from an article that was written TODAY about a product available NOW. It is very much relevant as news. If you have nothing to say, keep it that way. 

[MeltingPoint]

thermal pads and thermal paste have different application usages. You cant use thermal pads on gpu core die or use thermal paste on VRM's and VRAM's.

 

Of course thermal paste can be used for VRMs, memory modules and other components. Its not practical but it can be done.

 

Stock cpu cooler does come with thermal pad. So i don't see any problem here.

Its thermal paste not thermal pad. That gray goop will spread out once the cooler is mounted.

[Megahurt]

I wonder if they would work well with a delided cpu.

[Norman_the_Owl]

Thermal pads vs/ paste benchmarks incoming?

[allindaze]

As someone mentioned earlier in this thread thermal pads are used when the space between the component being cooled and heatsink is not suitable for thermal paste (such as a thermal plate used to cool multiple components of varying height.) Hence why the announcement made note of the fact that the material is squishable (not their term) to accommodate a wide variety of different size air gaps/spaces.

[allindaze]

I've been looking for a good brand of thermal pads to replace the ones my XFX R9 290 comes with and all I've been able to find is 3M and generic stuff and I've had no idea which to get so it's nice to see Arctic come out with their own.

[Prophet of Entropy]

Stock cpu cooler does come with thermal pad. So i don't see any problem here.

 

 those are not thermal pads, that's just grease

 

thermal pads are good for using in between ram/vrm/mosfets and their heat sinks or similar low heat output items.

 

and these being 6.0w/mk aren't even high performance pads.

[allindaze]

 those are not thermal pads, that's just grease

 

thermal pads are good for using in between ram/vrm/mosfets and their heat sinks or similar low heat output items.

 

and these being 6.0w/mk aren't even high performance pads.

i had no idea of this metric