Can I replace with thermal paste.

[distantworld101]

[distantworld101]

The chips sit above the CPU and that pad is on the heat sink of the CPU and I was wondering if I can remove the pad and just put thermal paste.

[rn8686]

Paste isnt made to cover a large surface, it may eventually flow out and leave a gap. Just leave the pad on there, no reason to take it off. 

[_Dr_Eye_]

you will need to use those pads otherwise you could crack the chips and coils. the thermal paste would not be thick enough to so the thermal transfer

9 minutes ago, distantworld101 said:

the heat sinks that are used on power delivery components  do not have any pressure put on to the components

[Inf3cted_Worm]

If you're worried about having peeled it off you can just reuse it in a pinch

[distantworld101]

3 minutes ago, rn8686 said:

Paste isnt made to cover a large surface, it may eventually flow out and leave a gap. Just leave the pad on there, no reason to take it off. 

Ok thank you for the awn, i ask because i already dusted,replaced the fan,replaced the paste once,and this CPU is still idles at 80*C and playing league will shut it self off cause of over heating its a i5-460M and i saw them  and thought that might be the cause

[orangecat]

I don't see why paste couldn't work but I'd still recommend pads since that's what the manufacture put on there in the first place. Paste might work but I wouldn't recommend it for long term use just to be safe.

[Howitz]

pads have some thickness to them in order to fill a large gap, thermal paste is made to be as thin as possible to fill gaps where there should'nt be gaps.

 

you NEED the pads, don't try to put thermal paste there.

 

You can buy pads yourself and cut them in the shapes they need to be, if the ones you have right now gets worn out or anything.

[HisEvilness]

A paste is a pain to apply properly, pads work best for this application.

[distantworld101]

This may of been stupid to do but now  my temps at idle are 35-40 and league is 56-70 so I'm happy that I did it.   All's I did Incase you can't tell is the intake in the middle where the processor and gpu is I cut a hole in the case big enough of a desktop 120mm fan and glued a fan where the exit fan is in the back I cut a small hole for a desktop 80mm and glued one there and wired both together to a 12v plug.