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Which pad should be used in laptops?

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Tower02

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Hello friends, I recently sent my laptop to the service and they did the gluing and pad process very badly. I bought a new paste, but normally it is said that a pad should be applied to the places I have shown with arrow signs, but does this white and dark colored liquid serve as a pad or should I wipe it and put a pad on? If I am going to wear a pad, I cannot get clear information about how many mm pads I should buy. I would be grateful if you could help me. I am using HP VICTUS 16 model laptop, R5 5600h rtx 3060.
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The two big square chip need paste, others it's 0.5<1.5>2.0 mm pads but yours too old to know.
 
Seeing the coloration everywhere, I'd guess whoever serviced your laptop used the same paste for all things.
Unless you know the exact pad thickness needed for the memory and VRM chips, you probably would be safer using thermal putty instead. For the CPU and GPU, any good paste should work.
 
Klemc said:
The two big square chip need paste, others it's 0.5<1.5>2.0 mm pads but yours too old to know.
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As you mentioned, I bought arctic mx-6 for the processor and graphics card chip, but I don't know which pad I should use, but I saw in a few videos that this white and dark paste is frequently used instead of the pad. More precisely, it was revealed in HP's official technical support video that this white and dark paste was applied. So I can't quite understand whether keeping these would be harmful or beneficial.
wNotyarD said:
Seeing the coloration everywhere, I'd guess whoever serviced your laptop used the same paste for all things.
Unless you know the exact pad thickness needed for the memory and VRM chips, you probably would be safer using thermal putty instead. For the CPU and GPU, any good paste should work.
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I have read that it is not right to apply thermal paste to the area where the thermal pad will be used, but as I mentioned above, I do not know how thick a pad I should buy for this system.
 
In this state i'd buy the old laptop with cleaning and pads paste furnished, or cheapier.

Can't you find model and ask them ?.. i did for my x390 MB and they never answered about detailed mm, so use 1.5 mm should be the better.

I used pds on the 3060xc, x390 and even the DeskMini, all worked, i had 1mm and 2mm

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GPU paste and thermal pads // Mboard z390 too

My last wish is to repaste/repad my GPU... ... then when i want i can do it with my 4070-ti with ease (once trained all always becomes easier). It lost 4
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Use PTM7950 on the CPU and GPU. If you cant get that then find some Thermalright Heilos.

As for the pads 1.5mm or 2mm pad should work
 
Klemc said:
If it were me, I would buy the old laptop with cleaning and paste pads, or I would buy a cheaper one.

Can't you find your model and ask? I asked for my x390 MB and they never answered about the detailed mm, so it would be better to use 1.5mm.

I used pds on the 3060xc, x390 and even DeskMini, they all worked, I had 1mm and 2mm

www.techpowerup.com

GPU paste and thermal pads // Mboard z390 too

My last wish is to repaste/repad my GPU... ... then when i want i can do it with my 4070-ti with ease (once trained all always becomes easier). It lost 4
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Right here
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I contacted HP and informed them that I would apply to consumer rights in my country. Officially, there is a fiasco. We are talking about a heating exceeding 100 degrees as a result of the action taken by the service provider. Apart from that, I'm waiting for feedback from the HP official technical team about how many mm I should use. For this reason, I do not want to buy thermal pads as much as I would like, but thank you very much for your help. I am grateful.
 
Ask HP maybe they'll tell you.

You could use thermal putty instead of pads, you wont need to know the thickness but may be a pain to clean if you ever take it apart again.
 
Vya Domus said:
Ask HP maybe they'll tell you.

You could use thermal putty instead of pads, you wont need to know the thickness but may be a pain to clean if you ever take it apart again.
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Right now I think the dark white paste is some kind of paste. I will not remove it unless there is a situation that requires me to remove it. Actually, I will only apply thermal paste to the processor and graphics card. I think that's the logical thing to do, but I don't know what the thick white paste they apply is.
 
Tower02 said:
Right now I think the dark white paste is some kind of paste. I will not remove it unless there is a situation that requires me to remove it. Actually, I will only apply thermal paste to the processor and graphics card. I think that's the logical thing to do, but I don't know what the thick white paste they apply is.
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Paste has no thickness, only pads, also reuse the whity paste now after opening case...
 
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