Graphite Thermal Pad – Permanent Replacement for Thermal Paste/Grease (40 X 40mm)
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Product information
Product Dimensions | 5 x 2.9 x 1 inches |
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Item Weight | 1 ounces |
Manufacturer | Innovation Cooling |
ASIN | B07CK9SHZG |
Item model number | IC Graphite Thermal Pad 40 |
Customer Reviews |
4.5 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #166 in Thermal Pads |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | April 21, 2018 |
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Product Description
IC Graphite Thermal Pad is a permanent thermal interface alternative to thermal paste for CPU’s, GPU’s and Game stations. This product features top tier thermal performance that is uniquely stable across a wide temperature range -200C to +400C and, when used long term, should last the life of most electronic components.
IC Graphite is 100% pure graphite and non-toxic. This pad is a solid-state modular solution, with no messy applications to clean, no guessing if you have used the proper amount, just place pad and mount sink.
Troubleshooting Tip - The key to great performance is that fundamental to all thermal interface materials, whether it is a thermal compound or thermal pad, all require good contact and pressure to realize full performance. Thermal performance in this regard can be affected by several degrees, so as you would with thermal paste, be mindful of good contact and pressure for optimum performance.
Caution: IC Graphite is electrically conductive! Any contact with electrical components when the computer is turned on can permanently damage the components. Please ensure that the system is turned off during the application process and that no stray pieces are contacting any components before powering on the system.
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Customers like the performance, ease of installation, and cleaning of the heat sink. For example, they mention it works about as well as decent thermal paste, is easy to clean, and is convenient for individuals who frequently swap coolers. That said, some complain about the stability. Opinions are mixed on the heat, and durability.
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Customers like the performance of the heat sink. They say it works about as well as decent thermal paste, and is very satisfied with the results. The graphite thermal pad works great and is an excellent product. It can work with any setup, including a heatsink/fan combo, special water cooling, or all-in-one.
"...Think more along the lines of a semi-truck than a sports car. It works hard. It gets hot...." Read more
"...- I get CPU temps maxing at 74C - no thermal throttling, CPU at full speed at all times. Not bad at all for a marginal airflow case...." Read more
"Ive been using this on the cpu (i5 11600k) for 2 weeks now, its been working good, the temp increased 3C on idle, under load it stays the same temp..." Read more
"...I am VERY satisfied with the results. Oh and also, I ordered on the 23rd, got it on the 26th. That is pretty fast...." Read more
Customers find the installation of the heat sink to be easy. They mention that it's simple, and it never requires maintenance. Some say that the easy cut design makes it simple to place the pad on the CPU.
"...Anyway....installation is super easy once you put tiny dabs of thermal compound on the processor corners to hold this pad in place...." Read more
"...The real winner however is convenience! Easy to install. No mess. No more "have I done it right". And it is reusable...." Read more
"...No mess and easier to install/replace.Aorus X7 DT V88th Gen Intel Coffee Lake i7 8850h (currently at 4.1ghz)..." Read more
"...Installation was easy and there is no mess to clean up...." Read more
Customers find the cleaning process of the heat sink to be easy. They mention that it's reusable, and there's no chance of making a mess. Some say that the product is easy to install and reusable. Overall, most are happy with the ease of cleaning with this product.
"...The real winner however is convenience! Easy to install. No mess. No more "have I done it right". And it is reusable...." Read more
"...In other words, no muss no fuss and quickly ready to rock and roll again!..." Read more
"...No mess and easier to install/replace.Aorus X7 DT V88th Gen Intel Coffee Lake i7 8850h (currently at 4.1ghz)..." Read more
"...time (we’re talking about five minutes here) and there was no mess whatsoever at the end that needed to be cleaned up afterward as usual...." Read more
Customers like the reusability of the heat sink. They say it's great to just swap it off each time, and it can be reused several times.
"...Easy to install. No mess. No more "have I done it right". And it is reusable...." Read more
"...The best part is this graphite thermal pad is reusable, which was the main reason I bought it last year...." Read more
"...you have some patience using these pads are less messy and can be reused several times...." Read more
"...the absolute lifecycle of this unit might be, but it is very clearly advertised as reusable, and this has enormous benefits...." Read more
Customers like the value of the heat sink. They say it's well worth the money, reasonable price, and cheddar. They also say there's no more tubes of overpriced goop and the cost is eliminated.
"...glad I found out about it, and impressed that it is at such a reasonable price. Highly recommended." Read more
"...The price is reasonable as it is reusable which is great for those who work in the PC field or test certain products...." Read more
"...First, is the installation. Second, it's value and thermal dissipation.Installing this product is really simple...." Read more
"Conclusion: excellent product - a little expensive on initial cost but if one could use it correctly and carefully, it could be a great component to..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the heat of the heat sink. Some mention that it puts out great temperatures, runs plenty cool, and dramatically reduces heat on CPU's and GPU's. However, others say that the heat is just so concentrated on the die that it removes. It's not better on cooling than paste, and the thermal resistance is a function of contact pressure.
"...I'm really glad I did. My temps are almost exactly even with what I got with the liquid metal even though this pad is only rated for half the..." Read more
"...Kombustor at the same time - I get CPU temps maxing at 74C - no thermal throttling, CPU at full speed at all times...." Read more
"...so I was not happy with the temps... I switched to using Mastergel Maker (not a cheap paste) and was not happy with the results I was getting...." Read more
"...cpu (i5 11600k) for 2 weeks now, its been working good, the temp increased 3C on idle, under load it stays the same temp as thermal paste..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the durability of the heat sink. Some mention that it holds up incredibly well, while others say that it's fragile and easy to tear.
"...that it is not a liquid thermal paste, but is a single, solid piece of thermal conductor made using a knowledge of the thermal conductivity of..." Read more
"...The nice thing is that this does not wear out. It is a permanent fix. I haven't had a single overheating issue since installation." Read more
"...Extremely easy to scuff up and bend - perhaps a perfect installation job would have produced better results...." Read more
"...Main selling point was the fact that it essentially lasts forever and probably isn't that much worse .Installation:..." Read more
Customers are not satisfied with the stability of the thermal pad. They mention that it tends to slide around very easily, and may become unaligned. Some customers also say that the pad is not sticky like other thermal pads.
"...You'll see people complaining about it being slippery and hard to hold in place ... I had to install this under a desk on my home server, which..." Read more
"...Without the thermal compound - it moves, period - tried 3 times and it just wouldn't stay in place no matter how careful I was...." Read more
"...Installation can be a little anxiety inducing as it tends to slide around very easily, some people use a little dab of thermal paste on a corner to..." Read more
"...on top of it and locking it down as the slippery little thermal pad can easily slide around and become off-centered...." Read more
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I had been using Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut liquid metal before this. It had dried out and failed after two years. It's a serious pain to install and it is really, really hard to get applied correctly. It's almost worse to try to clean it off. I used a Dremel and a buffing wheel and polished it off after getting the bulk removed with ArticClean binary cleaner. I'll never use that stuff again. BUT it did do a good job as a new install until it began failing. The problem is that eventually either your cooling solution or your thermal paste is going to fail and then you're going to be taking things apart ...
Degrading thermal paste, even liquid metals, is a serious problem for high use, high availability, high performance, long duration computer systems. I have replaced the thermal paste on the processor for this machine at least a half dozen times because I've had at least a half dozen CPU coolers on this machine.
The computer I'm using this pad on is an AMD FX 8350 Black (On an ASUS 990FX Sabertooth R1 board) that's been running this machine for over ten years. Pretty much everything on the machine has been replaced multiple times except for the processor and motherboard. The processor has a nearly 25% overclock running 24/7/365 (4.95 GHz) It serves all my multimedia (which is a LOT) and is my security camera server (22 cameras), plus the computer I use (3 video cards, six monitors) at the main desk in my shop/office/man cave. Because of the camera system, "idle" is never less than around 50% CPU clock cycles. I can and do use it for gaming though I'm not much of a gamer. It's not a gaming computer. Think more along the lines of a semi-truck than a sports car. It works hard. It gets hot. It's still doing a great job after all this time and I have no intention of replacing it one second before I have to.
This is VERY impressive performance for a computer. I don't know if I got lucky with processor and board or it's just that this combination is particularly robust. Whatever the reason, it has been and continues to be a truly great machine.
I don't want to trust the cooling system to just any old nonsense. That's why I tried Thermal Grizzly liquid metal last time. I thought long and hard about using this pad before buying and installing it. I'm really glad I did. My temps are almost exactly even with what I got with the liquid metal even though this pad is only rated for half the thermal conductivity that the liquid metal is. So the conclusion I've come to is that the liquid metal either wasn't applied optimally, it squeezed out to the edges when the cold plate on the pump was attached or some other unseeable and unknowable problem occurred ... OR both thermal conductors have maxed out the capacity of my cooling solution. It would not be at all surprising as difficult as that stuff is to apply on a vertical surface that there was an unseen problem in the installation.
The pad was super easy. I just put a tiny little daub of TX-2 (that I had laying around, nothing special as far as pastes go) on the top corners of the CPU to hold the pad in place while I bolted on the pump. Those two tiny bits of paste are well away from the die and should in no way interfere with the heat carrying capacity of the system. I literally used paste to paste the pad on long enough to finish the installation.
It should be noted that I bought the 40x40mm pad which covered the entire lid and that my CPU is obviously not delidded. I think that's important because it establishes maximum conductivity across the largest possible area. It's only $3 more for the larger pad, don't cheap out on this. Be sure to measure your CPU, look up the dimensional specs or just buy the larger pad and be prepared to cut it down.
I also polished the CPU and cold plate with a Dremel and a buffing wheel using green rouge. I had to do that to the CPU to get all the liquid metal off so I figured I might as well do the cold plate while I was at it. I didn't lap it, I didn't mate the surfaces perfectly, I just put a semi-mirror polish on the surfaces free handed. Be careful if you do that so as not to create micro-concave areas that will cause problems with gapping.
Temperatures are running around 40 degrees normal use (remember I said it never actually goes to "idle" in normal use?) to around 50 under max load and I don't stress test it with Prime95 or anything like that. There's no need to stress test it, all I care about are real-world results and it's under stress just because it's on. When I turn everything off and it is truly idle it sits just a couple degrees F (~24C) above ambient.
As mentioned previously, this pad is rated about half the thermal conductivity of the Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut liquid metal it replaced and it does as well or slightly better on my machine. That could mean that both the Thermal Grizzly liquid metal and this pad are maxing out the possible conduction of heat between my CPU and the pump cold plate. This pad is rated for thermal conductivity about four times what MX-4 produces. There are other factors besides thermal conductivity that work together in determining the effectiveness of your cooling solution. If you're not getting as good or better results with this than you did with MX-4, you're doing something wrong and/or one of those other factors needs to be addressed. The incontrovertible proof of that is all the other highly positive reviews. If we're all getting excellent results and you're not, it is very likely something on your end that is the problem and not an issue with this pad. Unlike paste that can have unknown and unseen air gaps, bubbles, uneven spreading etc. this pad is either in place on clean surfaces or it is not. This isn't arbitrary. The physics of this mean that if it works for me, it works the same for you. If it doesn't work for you as well or better than MX-4 or a similar thermal conduction paste then it's a problem that YOU have, not a problem with this pad.
I'm not saying people who have issues with this pad don't know what they're doing. I'm merely pointing out the irrefutable logic of the physical science involved. If all the pads are the same (meaning no manufacturing defects) and every installation follows the same basic process on the same basic materials ... (CPU heat spreader/lid > thermal conductor > copper cold plate) And the vast majority of installations are extremely successful but yours isn't -- Then it's not the pad. You need to find that other variable that's causing the problem if you want to get the same positive results the rest of us are getting. It's worth the effort because this pad is an amazing and highly effective solution. I've been building computers for almost 30 years so it's not like I'm a novice at this stuff, but if you want to challenge my logic please feel free to comment and we'll discuss it.
SO -- The performance of this thermal pad is phenomenal. I'm very, very happy with it and the fact that it will outlast my water cooler is a big plus. (I now have three water cooler radiators laying around so I may just go to a reservoir fed open liquid system next time, and I can use this pad again if I do.) Time will tell if it actually resists the degradation that thermal paste experiences and if it dies like thermal paste I'll come back and amend this review. If you don't see an edit below then it's still doing a great job and that being the case ... I'll never go back to goop again.
28 December 2020 - Two years later and the pad is still performing like the day I installed it. I have to shut down the machine and clean the radiator about twice a year but that's it. With a clean radiator on the overclocked processor previously mentioned this pad still works like brand new.
4960x (yes....old) lapped to near mirror polished
Thermalright Peerless Assasin 120 (how can something be this cheap AND this good?)
EVGA RTX 2070 XC Ultra Gaming - Because Mom loves killing zombies! Uhh..no. CPU has no iGPU
32GB RAM, ASUS MB, Fractal Design Pop Air case
Anyway....installation is super easy once you put tiny dabs of thermal compound on the processor corners to hold this pad in place. Without the thermal compound - it moves, period - tried 3 times and it just wouldn't stay in place no matter how careful I was. Being as this pad is the same size as the heat spreader of the CPU - had to be perfect - so...TC on the corners - done.
All fans set on manual with minimum duty cycles in BIOS. Idle temperature average is 26C for all cores with a low temp of 24C - so very consistent and even. Now, when I hammer it - prime95 AND MSI Kombustor at the same time - I get CPU temps maxing at 74C - no thermal throttling, CPU at full speed at all times. Not bad at all for a marginal airflow case.
Is it as cold as kryonaut extreme - no. Runs about 3-6C hotter under load - but that was also in a case that had more airflow....sooooo...?
Will I have to repaste it in a year or two? NO!!! I don't see why this won't last essentially forever.
This likely isn't for extreme overclockers looking for the last degree. For me though - building a system that will work without issue and I won't have to fix it (I live 1000 miles away) it's ideal.
Now for the gpu (the reason the review is 4 stars), the experience was actually bad, my gpu is an old GTX 1080 ti FE (i have it undervolted and limited on temp at 80C) my temps on idle with the kryonaut paste are around 37~42C and under load with a heavy game stays mostly at 80C sometimes spiking at 82~84C.
When i installed the graphite thermal pad idle temps were the same around 37~42C but under load if it wasnt for the temp limit and the undervolt on msi afterburner easily the gpu would reach 90C or worse. I only used for 3 days and playing not so heavy graphics games like rocket league waiting for a miracle on that graphite pad but it didnt cool down the gpu so i went back to the kryonaut paste.
The reason i decided to try this graphite pad on the gpu mainly was because the kryonaut paste i got it doesnt have long lasting durability, on the gpu after 2 months the temps slowly rise 2~3C after 6 months the temps are at the limit 80C and the paste is dry by that time.
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Solo hay que tener cuidado al colocarlo ya que al ser algo conductivo pudiera dañar el equipo si hace contacto con un componente eléctrico, aunque esto es algo más a tener en cuenta en una laptop, en una PC de Escritorio deberías de estar ciego para colocarlo de tal manera que exista riesgo de daño.
Now outside of my personal experience with this material, there are two points of interest that I came across in my research. 1) the sheet does not lend itself to multiple reuse. Through testing done by third parties, it was discovered that once this material has been compressed once (installed into a CPU and heatsink combination) the material is no longer as space filling and will have trouble performing as effectively the second time around. And 2) based on testing data comparing this thermal pad to thermal pastes, the pad performs on par to mid-high tier thermal pastes. With the highest tier of thermal pastes offering a 1 to 2 degree benefit. Obviously if you're overclocking or someone who swaps CPUs quite often, these pads may not be the most economical or best solution for you (as based on the research it would be best to buy a new pad every time). However, for someone like me, where I've installed my CPU and do not foresee myself replacing it, pretty much ever again, these pads are quite convenient and still deliver on the performance I need. So overall, I think it's a great product with good value, but you do have to understand your personal needs for your build to make the right decision about whether these pads are appropriate.
Zeer handig als je niet een keer in het jaar je thermal paste wilt vervangen.
Anlass für den Kauf war ein Rechner, dem es bei längeren Compilerläufen (> 5 min) so heiss wurde, dass er den Rechner abgeschaltet hat: 125°C waren dabei seine letzten Worte. Frische Wärmeleitpaste verlängerte die 5 Minuten Laufzeit auf ca. 15 Minuten - immer noch zu wenig.
Genau deshalb wagte ich den Versuch mit dem IC Graphite Thermal Pad von Innovation Cooling. Mit 12 € für so ein kleines Teil nicht gerade ein Schnäppchen, aber dafür soll es ja angeblich sehr, sehr lange halten.
Nach Ankunft des Pads habe ich es auf die Maße des Prozessors zurech geschnitten und dann einfach zwischen Prozessor und Heatsink gelegt. Beim Befestigen des Lüfters ein bisschen aufpassen, dass das Pad nicht verrutscht -auf mehr ist nicht zu achten.
Nachdem alles wieder montiert war, startete ich einen Compilerlauf: Die Editor-Suite Atom! Dieser Compilerlauf dauerte etwas 7 Stunden, und in der Zeit liess ich mir parallel dazu im Minutenabstand die Kerntemperatur anzeigen.
Und was soll ich sagen: Auch bei den heftigsten Rechenaktionen stieg die Temperatur nie, wirklich nie, über 82°C. Dementsprechend lief die Aktion auch ohne jede Unterbrechung bis zum erfolgreichen Ende durch. Hatte der Prozessor mal zwischen nur leichte Aufgaben zu erledigen, sank die Temperatur schnell auf gemäßigte 50 °C. Und im "normalen" Betrieb des Rechners liegt sie um die 45 °C.
Ende vom Lied: Ein wunderbares Produkt, dieses IC Graphite Thermal Pad. Es hat meine Erwartungen mehr als erfüllt und ist jeden Cent wert. Dazu kommt das einfache Handling, und so kann ich nur die volle Punktzahl vergeben.
Ich bin begeistert! Und sollte meine kleine Geschichte nach Lobhudelei klingen - das ist nicht der Fall. Das Ergebnis hat mich einfach überzeugt.
Bernhard E.
Estresando la CPU con el tipico programa de estress y tras 10-30 minutos de estrés, la cpu está entre 76º-77º lo cual para este micro es muy buena temperatura, en idle está entre 40º-50º .según la carga.
Hay que tener en cuenta que los pads térmicos van mejor con disipadores que ejerzan presión, si le pones una líquida que no ejerce tanta presión es posible que que te aumente algún grado pero nada del otro mundo.
Creo que es una muy buena compra ya que te olvidas de estar cambiando la pasta cada x tiempo ya que no pierde rendimiento, y además cuando cambie el micro o cambie el pc, podré seguir usando el mismo pad termico.