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    Graphite cooling pads

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by arenaboy007, Sep 22, 2019.

  1. arenaboy007

    arenaboy007 Notebook Geek

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    So I found graphite cooling pads on sale from where I live. I was wondering if I can use these to replace the stock pads on the vrms surrounding the GPU?
     
    arenaboy007, Sep 22, 2019
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  2. Falkentyne

    Falkentyne Notebook Prophet

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    Absolutely *NO*, unless you want to destroy your VRM's.

    Those pads are conductive, and graphite pads can only be used in place of thermal compound (CPU or graphic dies or IHS). You can't use thermal compound to replace thermal pads because pads are designed for IC's with a certain spacing to the heat block, so graphite pads can't be used either. The only thing that can be used is K5 Pro and I don't know about that or if the adhesion causes any problems either. Just buy some Arctic pads. 0.5mm, 1mm or 1.5mm.
     
    Falkentyne, Sep 23, 2019
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