Is there a difference other than price?
If there is I'm guessing it's the conductive qualities.
Is there a difference other than price?
If there is I'm guessing it's the conductive qualities.
Depends on what you're using them for?
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Thermal pads generally last longer than paste but don't offer the same performance.
invest in a tube of decent paste, it will last for years.
Thanks for the advice folks - what would be a "tube of decent paste".
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I read that double-sided tape works ok in place of thermal tape (for RAMsinks etc not a CPU/GPU) any thoughts?
Many thanks g8ina
Also the normal glue on double sided tape loses it's sticky ability when it gets hot, so your heatsinks will fall off
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Well I did it on my 7900GS and it worked fine for ages
Heat WILL transfer, the material isn't thick enough to stop that so the sinks did get warm, I wouldn't use it on anything that got more than a little warm though!
you wait until it drops off and shorts something out rob.
Well you're lucky, I've seen issues with normal tape and heat before
Should also mention that thermal tape and thermal pads are two very different things.
Thermal pads are thick and usally used on smaller less robust chips where you have a single heat sink covering multiple chips, such as memory or MOFET VRM's, esp on stock graphic card coolers.
The thick pads here do not hold the heatsink on and the thick layer soft material they are made from insures pressure and contact to be spread evenly over multiple chips from a single heatsink.
You do not want to use a Thermal Pad on a high heat output item like a GPU or CPU.
There's also liquid metal pad's but they are a different thing again.
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