PTM7950 Thermal Pad Phase Change Heatsink 80x80x0.25mm 8.5W/mK Conductive for Heatsink PS5 Steam Deck CPU GPU SSD Silicone Grease Thermal Pad

I have been using ptm7950 for a long time now and there's a few things that you need to know. First off, this material is best used on a bare die head. It's really not for anything that's uses an IHS. It's best used for direct contact. It's best used for laptops, consoles, GPUs, and delided CPUs. The process is simple. Measure the die that it's going on. Make it a little bit bigger than what you measured. Cut it. Use tweezers to peel the back wrap off. Gently apply it to the die head. Use the included spatula to smoothen it out. Let it sit for a minute to start binding. From there, grab some tweezers and peel the top wrap off then take a knife or tool and trim the sides. Remove the excess. From there apply your cooler as per usual. When you boot you are going to have pretty rough temps. You are going to look at it and think it sucks. This is NORMAL. You need to remember that this starts off as a .25 mm pad. Typical paste flattens out to the thickness of a sheet of paper rather quickly. As TPM heats up it becomes liquid a little and as it does that there's less resistance between the die head and the cooler. As you heat ptm and cool it down the material starts to squeeze down under the pressure of the cooling assembly. For example. When applying it to my Dell G15 running a 3050ti laptop GPU it started off at 96 under max load. I ran marvel rivals for 3 hours then let it cool. The following day I came back, ran marvel rivals again for 3 hours and the max temp dropped to 83. I let it cool and the following day I came back again and ran another 3 hours and I received the results of 76 under 94 percent load. As you run it through its paces it will become more and more thin and it will perform better and better. This material is not for casual computing. The harder you work the machine the more it will become a liquid and the thinner it will become. It starts liquidating at around 56C. This material works as hard as your machine does. It's built to be ran through its paces. Take your time, apply it right, and burn it in. Let it do it's job. Not a businessman, gamer, graphic designer, or a video producer? Then this is most likely not for you. It's a very durable material that's built to go the distance. It can and WILL outlive the machine you are using it on and it does get better with time. If you want to speed up the process just apply it, run a few hours of stress testing, give it 2 hours to cool and let the cooler squeeze it down. Stress test it again. Rinse, dry, and repeat for a day or 2. When I started off my temps were 96 under load. After I finished it was sitting at 71 with the GPU maxed out.

Perfect, this is exactly what I was looking for. I decided to put this on my i7 -13700k cpu. It was running a bit hotter then I liked it so decided to use this. Same with my graphics card. My graphics card is an rx 7900xt and usually runs warm to hot and decided to put some of this on the gpu die itself. And now it runs a lot cooler because of this replacement! Also fixed a lot of my hot-spot temps! This was super easy to install and now I won’t have to change it for a while. Value is top tier. And quality is amazing.

I definitely notice an improvement in temperatures but other reviewers are right, this can be hard to work with. I did refrigerate before working with the sheet but I lucked out by having a heatsink that made it very obvious where the contact with the CPU die was. I ended up cutting a piece that had just a little extra overhang and applied it to the heatsink. Then before removing the second layer of film I refrigerated the heatsink for a few minutes and use a small blade to remove the second layer of film. The tiny bit of overhang did allow me to get the film off without disturbing the actual pad application. After that I let the pad bake for about three hours under a medium load before really pushing it.

Installed in my Steam Deck. Didn't lower the temperature much but did lower the fan speed several hundred RPMs.There was enough material to do the mod 4-5 times.

Half the price of the official stuff and a large enough sheet to cover an AMD EPYC CPU. Ended up applying this to an LSI 9305-24i HBA as well. This stuff does not dry up and need re-applying like traditional thermal paste so it is great for servers that will be running for years. Then I was so impressed I bought another sheet and put it on all my old and current laptops. Also applied it to a 6900XT GPU and lowered hot spot temps. A 5800X CPU which allowed me to lower fan speed / noise a bit. I am just going around to every thing I own that has thermal paste and replacing it with this stuff and being impressed with the results every time. R.I.P. thermal paste *Distracted Boyfriend Meme*

After using the PTM7950 once, I knew I'd be buying it again — and here I am!Compared to regular thermal paste, this pad is so much cleaner. No mess, no guessing if I applied enough. Just set it in place and go.Even better, it feels like the thermal conductivity is way superior — temps on my PS5 and Steam Deck dropped noticeably compared to when I was using high-end thermal paste.Highly recommend for anyone upgrading their console, GPU, or CPU. I'll keep coming back to these!