Sizes guide
- The scrissor sign next to a size means it can be cut out from that slice of thermal pad. It is not the actual size! Example: 80x40x2mm
- One dimension size means it’s the thickness of that pad. Example: 1mm
- Two or three dimension sizes – with no scrissor sign – means it’s most probably an actual size. Example 100x14x1.5mm
About sizes
Sizes you find here come from various sources. Most of them reported by my clients whom successfully replaced their GPUs’ factory thermal pads with high quality aftermarket pads – getting significant results in their temperature drop. Some of these sizes are actual measurements and others just collected from random users on such websites like Reddit, YouTube or official / unofficial forums.
Do your own research
Please note that I cannot take any responsibility for the sizes appearing here. Do your own research as well before buying and replacing anything.
Tips
- Make sure your pads and GPU die contacts well with the heatsink.
- Always test your graphic cards and devices in controlled environment.
Alex
Had a success using Arctic TP-3 1.5mm on everything which needed thermal pads – RAM, VRM, etc. It is soft, so allows bigger tolerances.
jannes
everything made good contact? i couldnt find any good info anywhere so i just ordered the same as you did and will try it out tommorow.
Jannes
Tried the 1.5mm arctic-tp3 and worked great. the gpu die did require a fair amount of paste to make good contact though and had to screw quite hard for everything to make contact. but the pads are very soft so will allow that.
results are good.
i mainly play warthunder and bf1
Warthunder:
Before: 83-86c on GPU core, 90-105c on VRAM
After: 60-66c on Gpu core, VRAM mostly sticks around at 78c
Battlefield 1(at 200% resolution scale so heavy on VRAM):
before: 75-89c on gpu core and constant 100-105c on VRAM
after:65-70c on GPU core and VRAM hovers around 90-95c, sometimes spikes to 105c but not often and only very short.