Gelid Solutions GP-Ultimate Thermal Pad 90 x 50 x 2.0 mm (2 Pieces) Excellent Heat Conduction, Ideal Gap Filler Easy Installation Thermal Conductivity 15 W

I heard good reviews of Gelid, and I have not been disappointed... It's now my go-to for thermal pads, and I have used it in several applications. It's not cheap, but you get what you pay for. As a matter of point, I initially bought for an RTX2080ti who's VRAM was running hot, causing artefacts on the display... That's been solved and running fine for what, over 5 years now. Similarly, I built my new machine around an RTX3080 who's VRAM was running around 98C. Supposedly within spec, but concernedly toasty IMO... Gelid pads fitted with thermal grizzly compound on the die, and VRAM is now constantly within a few degrees of the GPU die (indicating an excellent thermal bridge between the die, heatsink, and the VRAM). I've also used thermal grizzly compound and Gelid pads to fix 2 or 3 overheating laptops in the last few years. My point being, I've used it enough to be confident in it's quality.

I bought this as my tiny little ThknkPad A285 is notebook sized and has rather measly cooling performance, causing it to get uncomfortably hot sometimes to the point where it would genuinely hurt to touch the bottom. These thermal pads have improved the cooling DRAMATICALLY!. Situations where it would previously get burning and a little painful to touch on the bottom are now just rather warm instead, and CoreTemp is showing me idles of 45c where it would previously idle at around 55-65c, on top of this if I had a 3D game open it would get to 85c and then throttle, but now it doesnt seem to go past 75c with a game open for the most part, only going to 80c on very rare occasions before dropping down to 75c a second later. Very good purchase!

The memory junction on my card was hitting 106c with 100% fan. I bought some Arctic pads that were marginally cheaper, but they didn't really affect the temperature in the the way that I'd hoped, though they dropped to 100c. I took a chance hoping that these Gelid pads would be better and I'm so pleased I did. After 1 hour mining with the same settings the memory junction is showing as 86c. The ambient temperature is the same so all things being equal I'm seeing a total drop of 20c in contrast to the stock pads.

I used these when I was reconditioning an old GPU, the pads were no good and it was full of vape juice. These did the job perfectly and we're easy to use, highly recommend!

This is fantastic performing thermal pad however you may want to downgrade to the Extreme line if using these for a GPU. Bought multiple of these which ultimately went to waste because they are too firm and prevent the GPU heatsink making good contact with the GPU chip when applied to RAM. The Extremes have a softer consistency which allows them to be squashed a little more under pressure which is essential for many GPUs to get good all round contact. I wish someone had told me this before I started buying as I would have saved around £40 or more.

If you want the best get these i dont remeber what exact temps decrease i was getting but it waas better than the old pads.Youtube reviewer tested this against 10 other pads and this one came on top.