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    GE73 8RF - Thermal pads

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by Dheed, Dec 31, 2018.

  1. Dheed

    Dheed Newbie

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    After a long fight between pa71es and this laptop, I found a good offer for the msi (about 200€ less than the clevo with same spec).

    Once the laptop will arrive, I will install a different SSD and repaste the GPU and CPU with thermal grizzly kryonaut (it will get moved a bit and as far i have understood, LM is not the best solution). To avoid to open it twice, I would also like to change the pads(artic or minus pad 8), does anyone know the thickness (and in case an approximate area) of the stock ones?
     
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    kill4l Notebook Consultant

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    hello, recently i changed mines on GE73VR 8RF, i used 1.0 mm hope this will help, and keep in mind there is one area near the cpu where you need to use around 2.0mm its small area.
     
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    Dheed Newbie

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    Thank you very much! May I ask you which brand did you buy? Everything fine? Do you know approximatly how much area did you use?
     
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    kill4l Notebook Consultant

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    i used Arctic - Thermal Pad 50 x 50 x 1.0 mm it was more than enough to change all the pads.
     
    kill4l, Dec 31, 2018
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