Arctic starts selling thermal pads that you can cut

[Thony]

I need thermal paste vs thermal pad comparison. It must perfo the same or better otherwise whats the point (for CPU) ?!

[RagnarokDel]

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

@LinusTech @Slick Would be worth trying, probably with a 4500$ cpu 

[euniqe]

This stuff has been around for ages, just because everyone's favourite thermal paste manufacturer has started producing it does not make this news. I've never seen an article properly explaining why everyone loves Arctic crap.

[MeltingPoint]

Surprisingly, the old MX2 is listed at 5.6W/mK while the thermal pad is 6W/mK. In theory, the pad should perform better than cheap ceramic based pastes. 

 

I still wouldn't use them for components with high TDP. They are acceptable for small transistors, memory chips, low power mobile chips, etc...

 

 

 

This stuff has been around for ages, just because everyone's favourite thermal paste manufacturer has started producing it does not make this news. I've never seen an article properly explaining why everyone loves Arctic crap.

 

Its not exactly crap. Its just famous. There are better pastes than the MX-4. A handful of reviews suggest that pastes like GC Extreme and Tuniq TX-3 are better.

[Mr.Jackson]

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. 

I mean.. you could have just told him to fuck off, same effect. nice.

[GoldSrc]

I need thermal paste vs thermal pad comparison. It must perfo the same or better otherwise whats the point (for CPU) ?!

For CPU and GPU, thermal pads would perform pretty bad, since the CPU/GPU has to have the best contact with the heatsink to be cooled down.

Thermal pads are better for VRM/RAM chips, since those don't get as hot as a GPU/CPU can get.

I did a few tests with an old 8400GS years ago, and nope, you don't want to use thermal pads on GPU/CPU.

[bcredeur97]

this is going to be so nice for replacing old, dry video card pads. or modding/liquid cooling video cards. 

 

I might actually buy these to redo some pads on my mobo since they are kinda dry and old and not working as well anymore.