Nvidia 460M GTX Thermal Pads

Sup all, haven't been on here in a while

Question about the thermal pads on the 460M GTX, i just got my bonus and I want a new vid card, was thinking about grabbing this NEW 1.5GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 460M Video card on eBay.ca (item 110658646199 end time 06-Apr-11 16:14:51 EDT) . The only thing is, i was wondering if the thermal pads were the same as the 5850, or if i need to pick up new ones. Thx.

 

should be the same, but i'm not sure if the 460m has the vram underneath too, so you could need more.

i think widezu did the same thing, hopefully he can chime in.

i just recieved some thermal pads from frozen cpu, i think i kinda went over board, bought 2 sheet but i do like to keep a supply handy just in case i ever want to do a mod. last year i went through 2 sheet on the M15x alone, heheh

 

I just bought the 5850 and I am upgrading from a 5730. Should I buy some thermal pads from Microcenter? What should I buy? I got Antec Formula 6 Diamond paste. PITA to spread ( I put it on my CPU), but I didn't know about the thermal pads for the GPU, I haven't done any Computer mods since the early 2000's.

 

sadly most retailer don't carry thermal pad any longer. i got mine from frozencpu.com along with some mx-4.

i order these:

Fujipoly Premium System Builder Thermal Pad - 1/4 Sheet - 150 x 100 x 0.5 - Thermal Conductivity 6.0 W/mK - FrozenCPU.com

 

Haha inap, I just checked Canadacomputers.com and they don't seel them anymore So thx for the link

 

actually microcenter has thermal pads in stock. I am confused. Do I use pads and paste? Just pads, just paste?

 

The pads are for the mem chips and the paste is for the the actual gpu.

 

I put fujipoly pads along with mx-4 on my m15x with a 5870. My idle temps stayed at 51 degrees and not much change but my load temps went from about 97 degrees in furmark after 2 minutes to 84 degrees tops after 13 minutes and gaming temps dropped more than 10 degrees also.