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    Thermal Copper pads for G53SW

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by creyssonbr, Sep 9, 2012.

  1. creyssonbr

    creyssonbr Notebook Guru

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    It's time for repaste again, and now I will change thermal pads.
    During my searching I found these Copper pads.

    I believe the best thickness for thermal pads is 1mm, but as the copper needs thermal paste, I will get this with 0.5mm.

    Any thoughts?
     
    creyssonbr, Sep 9, 2012
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  2. hackness

    hackness Notebook Virtuoso

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    Wouldn't recommend, thermal pads are soft material, when you screw the heatsink back the pads will get compressed too to achieve a better contact. Using copper shims might result in cracking the memory banks. Moreover, memory chips don't generate that much heat. Normal thermal pads are good enough to handle that. The thermal pads I used on my GTX 460M is 0.5mm, and they still got compressed.
     
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