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Review on πŸ”Œ Optimized Conductivity Management with ARCTIC Compound Efficiency by Tony Wylie

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Great laptop cooling! Great for gaming and helps with CPU/GPU throttling.

If you have a hot laptop these are ideal for connecting heat generating areas to the laptop sleeve. If you have a laptop with an aluminum or metal chassis, use these pads to create contact points with the metal chassis. The metal case has a much larger surface area and is much better at absorbing and dissipating heat. This leads to an overall cooling of the laptop. I did this to my laptop and it lowered my laptop's temperature a bit. Many online reviewers say this thermal pad is as good as some thermal greases, which is amazing. Installation is easy, they are sticky and stick to most surfaces. You can easily cut them to the size you want with scissors. Since installing them on my laptop, I've noticed an increase in the temperature of my aluminum case (when touched) during gaming sessions, but a temperature drop on my CPU and GPU. cores. This allows me to keep the CPU and GPU running at full speed for longer before the laptop starts throttling to keep temperatures under control. The side effect of using the case as a heat sink is that the case gets warmer. I FEEL my body warm with my fingertips. However, the increased surface area pulls heat away from critical components and can dissipate heat faster. If you have a cooling pad with a fan, the cooling pad will be more efficient. Unfortunately there is NO MAGIC BALL to cool the laptop, the heat MUST GO SOMETHING! You would prefer it to be on the chassis rather than the cores. I would order thinner spacers unless you know for sure you have a large gap and need thicker ones. You can always stack thinner pads on top of each other to fill bigger gaps. After all, this material is quite cheap. Buy more space to get a better deal. The little ones went out quickly.

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