PTM7950 Thermal Pad

Legit. Easy install. I have an rtx a4000, which runs very hot and as the factory thermal paste got older it began getting hotter and thermal throttling. Took about 20 min to disassemble and apply the ptm7950 material and it's now better than new. Fan is much quieter and max temps are about 6 degrees lower. I do not need the brush or other stuff in the kit, but it is helpful in scraping off all the old material. This was the largest sheet at the lowest cost I could find on Amazon. Will buy again.

I'm always suspicious of buying items like this from random sellers on Amazon; there's really no good way to know with absolute certainty that this is genuine PTM7950; we basically just have to take the seller's word for it. That being said, this stuff performs like PTM7950 Is reputed to perform; I've installed it on a number of CPUs and GPUs and consistently seen about a 3-5C drop in temperatures from good thermal pastes, and temperatures have remained stable in some cases for months under heavy load after installation, as expected from 7950. It also behaves like 7950, in that you really need to keep it in the freezer to be able to work with it; I actually keep it sitting on a hard plastic ice pack while I cut it. So, I have no reason to suspect it's not authentic, and plenty of reason to believe that it is. And it's much more convenient to source it from this vendor than to go elsewhere. I have no complaints about the product whatsoever. Some installation tips: -Keep it frozen and cut it to size on top of a hard plastic ice pack, as I said; I cut about 4mm shorter on all four sides for devices with an IHS, because it does melt and spread, while if it's an exposed die I just cut it to the size of the die. -Condensation will keep the cut piece adhered to the ice pack. While it's stuck down, use an exacto knife to wiggle under a corner of the upwards-facing plastic protective sheet. Holding the knife flat and parallel to the TIM, gently use it to separate the film from the 7950. Don't wiggle the knife. I generally use tweezers to grab the lifted corner but if you can grab it with your fingers that's fine too; the trick is to peel the film in a sideways direction rather than upwards. That is, if you pull the film up toward you at a 90 degree angle to the TIM, it will tear. Fold the lifted corner over and gently walk it back off of the TIM using the knife to lightly hold the exposed TIM down; the film should be bent 180 degrees back over itself as you remove it. With one side of the plastic film removed, install it on the CPU/GPU, and give it a bit of a firm push to help it melt a bit and adhere to that surface. Then repeat the procedure with the knife to slowly peel the plastic film off of the other side. You may scrap a piece or two while you figure it out but once you get the procedure down it's arguably less irritating than spreading a goopy, sticky thermal grease.

I'm surprised at how well this stuff works compared to stock thermal paste. I was pondering what to use on the core for my 5090 waterblock, so I ran MSI Kombuster for like 15 mins on my daughter's 3060 Ti comparing the stock thermal paste versus this phase change PTM7950, and it lowered the average core temp by 5.5c, thats a big difference! Its not very easy to apply though.

Awesome results! Ditch the thermal paste & liquid metal and use this! I used it on my CPU & GPU on my main pc & also on my 2 NUC pc's SOC's. After carefully spreading liquid metal on one of the NUC soc's it wouldn't post. Was it shorting, idk. Was it not making good contact with the kinda sub par heatsink surface, maybe. Either way, I ordered this after finding it in online comparison charts. Removed the liquid metal, used this, worked great. I replaced all thermal paste on all possible parts and the results have been fantastic! Easy to cut and place. *Cut your piece to size then put it in the fridge for a few minutes. Makes it a little more rigid and easier to remove the protective plastic and place on a chip.

I suggest indium over PCM.

I used PTM to replace the thermal compound on my GPD Win 4. Temperatures immediately dropped by more than 10 degrees Celsius. I was skeptical that this would perform as well as high-quality thermal paste, but it definitely does the job. With lower temps, the fans are also spinning much more quietly, even under the heaviest loads! It's not the easiest to apply -- you probably want a pair of tweezers to peel off the top layer of plastic -- but overall it's not too bad.

Bought this to redo my watercooling loop when I upgraded to AM5 with a 9950x3D. I initially put one on my old CPU block before discovering I didn't have the mount for it for AM5, and learned a bit about how to apply it properly, before I finally got to do my new block last night. Took the paste Corsair includes off and applied the pad in just a few minutes, and performance with my XC7 CPU block is as it should be (which is to say, fantastic). Just running my CPU in the loop designed for a CPU and 2 GPUs (I never bothered removing the old radiators when I moved to one GPU for my last build), but when RTX5080 waterblocks finally come out I'm definitely going to use this stuff to do that as well. Not sure if it's actually real PTM7950 but it performs as advertised so I'm not complaining. Also dope that unlike with normal thermal pads, if you have scraps that don't fit anything you can combine them all together in a ball in the center of the CPU like with normal paste, smash it down, and since it's a phase change material, it'll figure the rest out for you lol.

So.. I have a workstation that has dual gold CPUs. They are know to run hot and in this workstaion it has limited airflow. I tired a couple of the pastes and the best I could get was averaging about 40c-50c on idle. Gold CPUs run hot anyway . I ran across these pads and made the purchase figuring I would give it a shot. I ordered and received the PTM7950 in a few days. Install was not an easy process. It took me about three hours all togeher to do both Cpus but I went slow and used the ice trick. This was not an easy install and the gold CPU's are much bigger than a normal CPU. I finished and started the computer up. My temperatures are now at idle 30c-40c. Stess test on Cinabench is now 60-70c. This is 24 cores 48 threads reaching 4 ghz. Before the best I could get on Cinabench was 80-90c with the CPU starting to throddle back when it hit the ceiling temperatures. My end opinion on this product is it is amazing. It does have a pretty hard install procedure and you have to take it slow and have patience. I don't know if this is the honeywell pads but honestly I don't care. I'll update this review if I have any issues but as of now I am absolutley satisfied with this purchase and would hightly recommend.