Reddit reviews StarTech.com Heatsink Thermal Pads, Pack of 5 (HSFPHASECM)

something like this?

I have a day one ps2 (larger edition) , its working perfectly.

I changed the thermal pads ( ps2 doesn't have thermic paste)
https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Heatsink-Thermal-Pads-HSFPHASECM/dp/B0009B0K2I

I bought a new fan (60mm one)
https://www.amazon.com/Noctua-60x25mm-Blades-Bearing-Premium/dp/B009NQMESS/ref=sr_1_7?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1467542837&sr=1-7&keywords=fans+60mm

It's like new.

The thermal pads could be replaced with thermal paste. The only reason pads were used is because theyre slightly adhesive and they held on the little aluminum heatspreader blocks

As far as thickness, pretty sure theres only one thickness of thermal pads

I cant find the size of these, but they should work fine

https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Heatsink-Thermal-Pads-HSFPHASECM/dp/B0009B0K2I

the 64 hardly makes heat, its literally a couple watts.

What did you use for this? Something like this? https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Heatsink-Thermal-Pads-HSFPHASECM/dp/B0009B0K2I/ref=sr_1_10?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1486538070&sr=1-10&keywords=thermal+pads

I mean like this:

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Heatsink-Thermal-Pads-HSFPHASECM/dp/B0009B0K2I

They are used to conduct heat between CPU/GPU/VRAM etc. and a heatsink when the gap is too large for thermal paste to be used.

You can see on this GPU heatsink there are black thermal pads used to conduct heat from the VRAM chips into the heatsink:

http://img.hexus.net/v2/graphics_cards/amd/Sapphire/R9280XT/HeatsinkB.jpg

You can get them from like 0.5 mm thick to maybe 3-5 mm, but if the gap is too thick it won't really act to conduct heat very well (same problem as when you use too much thermal paste). I was suggesting you could buy a thermal pad and then cut it to fit the shape of your M.2 SSD and then place it between the SSD and the motherboard tray. So if your SSD would be touching the tray, you just put this pad in between and it should stop any electrical conduction by preventing your SSD from making direct contact with the motherboard board tray.

Huh, I'm on a very open frame printer so I just shifted my endstops and reduced the maximum in my software to compensate. It cost me a few mm of print space but nothing too bad. You could also try some thermal adhesive pads. Try this? (Disclaimer: Haven't used them or anything else like them))

Your Welcome

Buy some of these and stick it back on http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Heatsink-Thermal-Pads-HSFPHASECM/dp/B0009B0K2I