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

This may or may not be genuine Honeywell PTM7950, and that is okay. It performs great, working better than liquid metal on my GPU for keeping average temps closer to hotspots. It will probably shave a couple of degrees off of standard thermal paste, but the really good thing about PTM7950 is that it doesn’t pump out like thermal paste. Once you apply, it’s done for years upon years. It was kinda hard to apply only because I didn’t freeze it before use, but it would be easy if I had frozen it. Cutting to size, peeling one side, then applying that side to the die worked best for me. Some helpful tips for PTM 7950: 1) it will not be perfect at first. PTM7950 has to “burn in”. What this means is that you need to heat up the GPU or cpu or whatever you applied it to. Hours upon hours of stress tests/just gaming to push the card will get this to work. What PTM7950 does is turn liquid at higher temps, so once it changes to liquid, it will fill in the gaps and help thermal performance. Burning it in helps with this 2) freeze it for 30 min before applying. This stuff is soft, very soft, so peeling off the plastic film is hard if it’s room temp because it is very malleable. If you mess up, just heat it up (a lot, more than 50C) to fix any issues. 3) it needs to be a good size. What I did was measure my die size with calipers, then cut 0.5mm larger. If I got 20 mm, I cut to 20.5 mm. This helped with application, giving me just a bit of wiggle room. Do not do any larger, as it should be almost a perfect fit to the die. So yeah, this stuff does work as advertised. Whether it’s genuine or not, I don’t care. It worked great for a full size GPU, and the cpu and GPU of my laptop too. I am very happy with it.

Asus laptop that shipped with liquid metal for the CPU and thermal paste on the GPU, I saw a recent LTT video about an asus failing because the liquid metal leaked due to not enough mounting pressure, and then the PS5 issues, and then other asus users saying to let the laptop cool down before putting it in a bag/vertically. The vidoe put me over the top because it turned out the PTM7950 performed better ANYWAY. So i just decided to do it, the hardest part was removing the liquid metal from the SoC... By far, that took forever and was tedious and time consuming. Putting this on, was extremely easy though. I cut a couple pieces to size for the GPU and CPU, and that was it. I did refrigerate it in advance and I also used some fine precision tweezers to remove the films. Very easy actually. And the temperature of my laptop IS lower than ever. consistent idled at ~32C, now it's down around ~27C - and under load its sustaining higher clock speeds. Totally worth it immediately, better performance and peace of mind. Probably not the genuine honeywell stuff, but it's good so I also don't care.

PTM7950 is the best thermal outcome, but not as easy to install as paste. If your motherboard is out of the case its easer, but if you are like me and try to install on cpu in the case, it can be a challenge. It needs to be frozen in order to get the plastic protective film off of each side. Pad is very thin and flexable at room temp and sticks to plastic film. I suggest applying the pad near the freezer as you will need to freeze and refreeze several times to get the film separated from the pad. Use the stickers one on top and one on bottom to get the film to pull away from pad partially (1/2 away) on each side before you install. Refreeze, a few minutes, remove one side of film and loosely set on cpu pressing lightly on the side to the pad the film was not loosened and remove top film. Install heat sink, do not try to adjust or press down as the pad goes from frozen to room temp very quickly. Once installed there is a burn-in period you can use prime95 if you want to hasten the burn-in. I took off Arctic Silver and applied this pad and my temps went down 8 degrees and the AMD CPU now clocks 100hz higher under load. My AMD 9-5950x now idles at 42 degrees during normal use and 89 degrees maxed-out. Its work the effort.

Yes, it’s really tricky to apply but oh man, what a difference it makes! Please don’t just get this and not watch a tutorial on how to use it. If you apply it correctly, it’s far easier and far more effective than anything I’ve ever used before especially for the price.

Tried this out because it was so highly recommended by the youtube "Parts-People" channel. Used it to replace compound on an Alienware x17 R1 laptop that was running fans frequently. Worked great. Brought CPU temps down from 90C to 50C at idle. Fans run much less now. Easy to install, no mess. Love it!

I bought this because I have heard about its longevity and wanted to replace my old, drying thermal paste on my CPU. I heard people say to leave it in a fridge for a few hours (3-5 hours), to help stiffen the pad for when application came around. But even still, It came to room temperature after a few minutes, and would just become a frustrating tedious mess. There are plastic films on both sides of the pad you must remove, and if you aren't quick enough to remove them while they are still cold, it is not a fun experience. However, my temps have improved compared to my old paste, and I do not have to worry about second-guessing my thermal paste application. Overall, a fairly decent product as it keeps my temperatures in check, but if a quick application is what you need, you might want to look at something else.

Was not 80mm x 80mm piece. It was a used piece with rectangular pieces cut out.

omen 13900hx ve 4090a uyguladım Sıcaklıklar daha da kötü oldu Ya orijinal değil ya da tam olarak istenilen performans a ulaşmıyor

Llegó a CDMX en 3 días, se aplicó como reemplazo a la pasta térmica que viene de fábrica en la Steam Deck. Como mencionan en otros comentarios, ponerla en el congelador 5 minutos antes de aplicarla ayuda bastante.

I used it after using liquid metal. At first I thought it is bad because the temps were very high... But the longer stressed the processor, the better the temps became... After one week, it became as good as liquidation metal with the exception of being more safer to apply....

Does not make any difference - temp went up 5C Sent back - Suspect this is a FAKE product looking at the way its cut Waste of money