Thermal Pad Thicknesses on the Helios 500 (i9)

So I've already used Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut on my H500, and now I'd like to upgrade the thermal pads. Only thing is, I don't know what thickness each component uses. I want to say its either 1mm or 1.5mm. Does anyone know what parts use what thickness pads, or if they are all the same, and what size?

Oh, and BTW, I will likely NOT be using liquid metal TIM on this. I know the heatsink is copper, but I think there is still some kind of long-term damage that occurs anyway. And it may be a long time before a replacement heatsink assembly is available for purchase.

This is the pad I'm considering right now. I have others in mind as backups, but this one would be perfect.

http://www.sg-thermal.com/Thermal-Pad/TCP5000_Premium_Thermal_Conductive_Pad.html

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Qosmio

The original thermal pads are very good quality. But I changed those and i used for it
Gelid Solutions GP Extreme thermal pads .That is much better thermal conductivity 12W/mk . The first time i used the thermel grizzly Kryonaut for repaste CPU,GPU ,it wasn't bad, but next time i tried Phobya NanoGrease Extreme 16W/mk paste and i got better results. I recommended Phobya NanoGrease Extreme.

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vanadium

Why? Having thermal issues on your Helios 500? Mine is **** cool, running at 70°C on full CPU load (8750H), 41°C idle.

Alex84

vanadium said:

Why? Having thermal issues on your Helios 500? Mine is ***** cool, running at 70°C on full CPU load (8750H), 41°C idle.

Same machine, 44 idle, never had any heat issuses no matter what i threw at it either with fans at auto/with cool boost on. I dont get those complaints here, may be im the only one how is just playing games and doing some paperwork and browsing apart from you.

xapim

My only comment here is : if it's working fine why try to fix what isn't broken most of the times ends up by getting worse unless it has an issue i wouldn't touch it

ChevyCam94

Big difference between "working fine" and "working better". I do a lot of system-intensive work, and see my CPU throttling more often than I'd like. Plus, better cooling doesn't really have a downside, so if I can improve it, I really don't see why not.

xapim

ChevyCam94 said:

Big difference between "working fine" and "working better". I do a lot of system-intensive work, and see my CPU throttling more often than I'd like. Plus, better cooling doesn't really have a downside, so if I can improve it, I really don't see why not.

I was talking about the normal average user which as you replied you aren't

i also like to always improve whatever i can and as i stated above my advice only extends to the normal user

ChevyCam94

I gotcha. Sorry if it sounds like I snipped a little. Rough day at home today.

But yes, I'm looking to get the absolute MOST out of this laptop. The new thermal paste dropped by average temps down about 9 degrees, which is pretty decent. But I'd like to cut that down by way of better thermal pads. Only thing is that I need to know the thicknesses of each pad material, so I can calculate how much of each thickness pad I need to get.

Qosmio

The original thermal pads are very good quality. But I changed those and i used for it
Gelid Solutions GP Extreme thermal pads .That is much better thermal conductivity 12W/mk . The first time i used the thermel grizzly Kryonaut for repaste CPU,GPU ,it wasn't bad, but next time i tried Phobya NanoGrease Extreme 16W/mk paste and i got better results. I recommended Phobya NanoGrease Extreme.