Fact is the Gelid Extreme pads were just more compressible and had better GPU Die to block contact.Īnd to add, I had to use the average EK-TIM when repasting my card with Gelid Extreme pads cause the Thermalright TFX ones were a ***** to apply and I only had EK-TIM ones left. Memory temps were down 6 degrees as well. I since switched to Gelid Extreme's and it made a tremendous difference by almost shaving 8 degrees off hotspot temps and 10 degrees of GPU temps.
I had the Thermalright ones and my hotspots increased over time. The Gelid Extreme is what you should be looking at. Observe the shore scale of the thermal pads. I wouldn't replace good pads with it, but on the balance, if the choice is between buying a stack of different thicknesses of quality pads and cutting them to size, or buying high-end putty (like TG-PP-10), the putty will usually get my vote. Ultimately, any pads that are more conformable perform significantly worse and any pads that perform better are stiff and hard to work with. Admittedly, trying to put quality pads everywhere I used the putty would probably have cost even more. It took sixty dollars of the stuff to replace and supplement all the TIM on my 6800 XT Red Dragon (except the core, obviously), mostly because I was using it on the backplate as well. It's also dense, and you don't get a lot of volume for your money unless you buy it in bulk.
#SILICONE PUTTY SKIN#
Some people freeze it, or work with it with bear hands, but I'm a stickler for not contaminating TIMs I'm about to use with either condensation or skin cells/oils. It sticks to nitrile gloves and getting the last bits out out out of the smaller tubs (50g or less) can be a bit of a chore, but it's still generally more convenient than cutting thermal pads to size, if you have more than a few different gap thicknesses to fill. It's kinda messy, being tackier than Play-doh or light modeling clays and of similar stiffness. It also won't crack, bleed silicone oil, or migrate, and is largely reusable, as long as it's clean. Not entirely convinced the 10W/mK rating is accurate (though it's probably not less accurate than anyone else's thermal conductivity ratings), but it easily matches or beats the thermal performance of quality mid-range (7-8W/mK) pads while being much more conformable than even crappy (~1M/mK) pads. I've been using TG-PP-10 for a while, mostly on video cards.
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