Innovation Cooling Graphite Thermal Pad – Permanent Replacement for Thermal Paste/Grease(40x40mm 2-Pack)

I've been using this for over a year now, first with a 7700K and then a 9700K with a different motherboard. Upgrading processors was so much easier without having to mess around with thermal paste. Just make sure to use tweezers when manipulating the pad, don't touch it with bare fingers to avoid transferring grease. If you're careful with it, you can reuse the pad indefinitely.I'm using this with a DeepCool 240X AiO and my delidded 8-core 9700K with an all-copper IHS running at 5 GHz on all cores never exceeds 70C even under Prime95 blend torture tests, which is a great result. Under normal software loads and gaming, the load temps are only around 20-25 degrees above ambient room temperature which is excellent. Using a good quality thermal paste may probably lower temps even further, but I'd rather have the convenience of the reusable graphite pad. Recommended.

This is an absolute godsend for anyone that swaps out CPUs regularly. Being able to quickly remove a CPU without needing to reapply thermal paste saves loads of time when testing parts. It is a couple of degrees warmer than paste as it won't fill the gaps quite as well but that is well within tolerances. Probably wouldn't use it for overclocking but it all depends on the overall temperature.

This is a good alternative to thermal paste but has it's limitations mostly due to the installation. If you install it on a shiny CPU surface it will have a tendancy to move around so the cpu needs to be flat for the install also if your cooler is mounted slightly offset it will move the pad of the centre of the cpu and therefore leave a little of the heat spreader exposed.So careful installation is required.Thermally it is very similar to regular pastes but not as effient as MX2 MX4 etc.Ideal for installs where getting to the pad or cooler will be awkward in the future but for regular chances and moving coolers etc i would stick with a quality paste

I used this product for my laptop CPU, as my laptop was reaching 96 degrees on load with 4Ghz but when I replaced with thermal pad (and yes you have to cut it) it managed to stay around 91 and 88 degrees on same stress and on 4Ghz obviously it would not perform as regular paste but I'm quiet happy with results especially that performance won't go down at all unlike with paste. It is very simple to use but fragile, and I would recommend it to people who want fine cooling with a trade of not opening your laptop ever again.

I am running this as the medium between my Ryzen 5 2600X and my Deepcool Captain 240EX cooler. I used it as a replacement for the thermal paste that came on the cooler. I chose this over other thermal solutions as it advertised a higher thermal transfer than other paste solutions I was looking at (35W/MK for this compared to 12.5W/MK for the Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut, for instance). I'm sure this information is probably true, too. However, in a case such as that of transferring heat from a CPU heat-spreader to a heat sink there are better alternatives. Of course it's not quite going to really match a liquid-based solution as the imperfections between the surface of the graphite pad and the CPU and heat sink are going to create little pockets of air between the pad and the contact surface which will introduce insulation between the two and reduce the overall effectiveness as a thermal solution.In my experience I think this might have actually degraded my thermal performance, as previous benchmarks in Prime95 didn't even come close to 80C after being under max load for 10 minutes or longer, however with this I ran it and came back to see that after 13 minutes of maximum constant load it had reach 87C.As a disclaimer, I have overclocked my processor so the power draw won't be quite as high with stock and as such you might find better thermals, however I wouldn't suggest it for anything more.If you're building a simple low-power system and you don't plan to overclock, this might be a reasonable solution for you. It's clean, dry and won't degrade in performance over time. The fact it's a single sheet makes it useful for being reusable in other systems too, so if you were to upgrade your processor you wouldn't have to buy more of your chosen thermal solution to be able to cool that off. However for everyone else, I think it's best to go with a paste or liquid metal solution.

Good idea, but I found it very difficult to keep in place whilst trying to fit the CPU fan, very flimsy as you would expect, but so flimsy it tears very easily, my advice stick to thermal paste.

Takes the mess from thermal management and can be reused. It is a bit fiddly to not move it when attaching a cooler but not that hard. Just don't do any involuntary actions (sneezing etc,) and maybe dip your handling fingers in isop' to stop you transferring grease. I have heard some people add a tiny bit of TIM to stick it to the CPU but I think that would A) defeat the purpose and B) take away it's re-usability. Temp wise I cannot say as this is one of the many things I bought to cool my CPU temps (thermal grizzly LM, arctic MX4) but that has turned out to be my AIO pump dying, but when i get a cooler I can reapply this pad again with no fuss. Also for benchmark/testing purposes it makes for one less variable

Simple, quick and with great results. If I could do it anybody can, instructions easy to fallow (YouTube’s to the rescue). Approved by ChillZoneBoys!!!

Muy buen producto. Lo he utilizado en mis pc con óptimos resultados, manteniendo la pc con bajas temperaturas. Con un uso moderado y sin estresar la pc con cargas pesadas.

Es fácil de manejar al principio se me hizo un poco rijido y frágil como un papel lija de agua muy delgado , pero resultó ser bastante útil para probar varias tarjetas madre y haciendo pruebas se mantiene frío normalmente marca entre 32 y 35 grados

Super diferente a la pasta, mucho mejor

Amazing thermal pad.Works better than thermal paste...100% recommended

Dejemos esto muy claro, hay pastas térmicas que brindan temperaturas más bajas, de eso no hay duda, pero a menos que realices Overclock extremo este pad térmico es mejor opción: Fácil de instalar, sin necesidad de mantenimiento periódico, y reutilizable.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.