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Review on πŸ”Œ Silicone Conductive Northbridge - SIXQJZML 15mm x 15mm x 1mm by Ryan Sandell

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Does not replace thermal paste.

Ignore reviewers trying to use this as a thermal paste replacement. It's not made for that! These pads are designed for processors with lower heat dissipation (raspberry pi), memory chips and integrated circuits. These pads are NOT designed to handle the high heat dissipation required by a standard CPU or GPU. Do you want to replace the memory chips of your graphics card or game console?! It is great! Want to add a tiny heatsink to your Raspberry Pi? They work great. I used them and some new thermal paste to redesign my PlayStation 4 Pro. The PS4 Pro was very noisy and unblocking the fan completely didn't help much. The console sounded like a jet engine. So I replaced the thermal paste with the APU and replaced all the thermal pads with this product. It was so quiet now that I was worried about plugging the fan back in. I can't believe I haven't done this before. I'm sure the paste does most of the work, but I also trimmed these pads to better match the chips. The squares for the PlayStation were small, in some cases not even covering half of the memory chip. The 15 x 15mm squares were the perfect size for the large memory chips on my PlayStation motherboard. On the other side were much smaller squares. I cut out the 15x15mm pads with scissors so they are slightly larger than the previous ones. Here's how to stick them on. Cut the pillow to the desired size. Remove one side of the clear plastic protector. Place a plastic tool (paste dispenser) between the pad and foil layer. Remove the second layer of foil. Attach a small heatsink if needed. be. The extra layer of adhesive just makes it less efficient when it comes to heat transfer. It should still be sticky enough for a tiny heatsink, just follow my instructions for maximum stickiness.

Pros
  • Thermal conductivity: 1.2 (W/Β΅m), Tensile strength: 12 kgf/cm2
Cons
  • Some minor issues