ARCTIC TP-2 (APT2560): Performance Thermal Pad, 50 x 50 x 0.5 mm (1 Piece) - Thermal pad, Excellent Heat Conduction, Low Hardness, Ideal Gap Filler, Easy Installation, Safe handling - Blue

I got this to replace the old pad on my 2012 HP Pavilion g series laptop while upgrading the CPU. As far as I know, the thermal pad works well! Haven't had any overheating issues. The laptop still runs like a work horse after all these years and runs even better now after the minor upgrades!

Bought this for my EVGA GTX 1060 SC video card. Apparently the vapor chamber in the heatsink does NOT make contact with the mosfits or the 6GB of RAM. So, I took off the heatsink and cut little squares of the thermal pad and placed them (had to use two squares because the gap was so wide) on the mosfits and ram and then reattached the heatsink. Per GPU-Z it lowered my GPU thermals by 10 degrees. I usually ran around high 60 to low 70 but now I am high 50 to low 60 degrees. Very impressed and highly recommend.

Handy stuff, used it to heat sink hockey-puck style solid state relays. Seems to transfer heat well on non-smooth surfaces. No mess like with paste compounds.

If you have a steamy laptop, then these are great for connecting your heat-producing areas to your laptop chassis. If you have a laptop with aluminum or metal body, then use these pads to create contact points to the metal body. The metal body has a much larger surface area and can absorb and dissipate heat much better. This will lead to overall cooler-running laptop. I did this with my laptop and it lowered the temps of my laptop quite a bit. Many online reviewers say this thermal pad is as good as some thermal pastes which is amazing. Installation is easy, they are sticky and will adhere to most surfaces. You can easily use a pair of scissors to cut them to whatever size you need.Since putting these on my laptop, I've noticed increased temperatures on my aluminum chassis (to the touch) during gaming sessions but decreased temps on my CPU and GPU cores. This allows me to sustain full CPU and GPU speeds longer before the laptop starts throttling speeds to keep temps under control. If you use your chassis as a heat sink, a side effect is that the chassis will get warmer. I can FEEL the chassis getting warm from my fingertips. However the increased surface area removes heat away from the critical components and can dissipate heat faster. If you have a cooling pad with a fan, then it makes the cooling pad more efficient. Unfortunately there is NO MAGIC BULLET for laptop cooling, the heat HAS TO GO SOMEWHERE! You'd rather it go to the chassis then the cores.I would order the thinner pads unless you absolutely know you have a huge gap and need the thicker ones. You can always fold the thinner pads on top of each other to fill in the bigger gaps. Finally this stuff is fairly cheap. Buy the larger surface area to get the better deal. I ran out of the small ones fairly quickly.

I got this pad to replace the crappy/misaligned factory pads on the RAM modules in a CUH-1200 series PS4 that I did a power supply replacement on. This worked perfectly for what I needed. It was pretty easy to cut into the size needed. Wasn't sure what the thickness of the OEM pads were, so I went with the 0.5mm. In case anyone is doing the same thing, turns out you need 1mm for the PS4. No big deal though, just doubled up the pads. They're easy to apply or reposition if needed, as they're tacky but not adhesive. After reassembling, I monitored the temps with an IR thermometer and they were good.

The biggest challenge with thermal pads is usually a trade off between thermal conductivity and convenience of a relatively non-messy application compared to thermal paste. However, the 6W/m•K rating of this pad is nothing to be sneezed at. Many pads marketed as proper "thermal adhesive" type have a fraction of this rating. Though the Arctic pad is not marketed as an adhesive, it is actually very pliable and tacky so most small lightweight heatsinks actually stick readily to anything with a modest surface area. My use was to cool down an ICH 10 series chip that was generating temps in the 90's Celsius. The use of this pad and a small heatsink with some good airflow brought it down into the mid-60's to low 70's degree range Celsius maximum. Highly impressed given the small heatsink's cooling surface greatly limited heat to air transfer. Regardless, it was a success without any messy paste. Highly recommended!

do not get this product if you are expecting it to hold anything in place. wouldnt use unless you had another retaining device.

Does the job, nothing great about it. It lacks adhesives