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thermal pads in general are worse than properly applied paste, if you learn to paste things smoothly and accurately. there's a reason you won't seen thermal pa
by walrus01 4y ago
thermal pads in general are worse than properly applied paste, if you learn to paste things smoothly and accurately.
there's a reason you won't seen thermal pads as the interface between a cpu's heat spreader and the underside of a skived copper heatsink in a high wattage per socket, dual CPU 1U or 2U server, where the heatsink has to be really efficient.. it'll be a factory applied paste.
- ollien 4y agoI think the question was more surrounding the thermal pads on things like the VRMs. My understanding (though full disclosure, I've never disassembled a GPU myself) is so long as you take care to not tear them, they should be fine.
- walrus01 4y agoI don't know that I've ever seen a self adhesive double sided sticky thermal pad that was designed for re-use with re-application of a heatsink, or that I would trust re-using a second time.