URGENT HELP NEEDED REGARDING THERMAL PAD SIZES ph315-51

Acer gave this stupid smiley face on my profile, but im really not happy right now😔

You will find a lot of conflicting information on pad size but all 2019 models use the sizes below

1 mm on everything except vmem which is 0.5mm with a little paste, be happy now

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Gpu vmemory uses thermal tape not pads. Not sure what size though. This is for 2019 model.

Pb101 said:

Gpu vmemory uses thermal tape not pads. Not sure what size though. This is for 2019 model.

Many Helios users on this Forum have successfully used 0.5 mm on the 2019 model, wouldn’t hurt to try both. The problem with pads etc.. is that Acer don’t supply any specs so everything becomes a collection of user experiences. My opinion is to leave pads alone unless damaged or absolutely essentilal to replace them

Yeah I repasted my cpu and gpu last night and some of the pink thermal tape on the vram seperated when I took off the heat sink. I left as is and just put the heat sink back on when finished. Gpu seemed fine after gaming a bit. Just in the future if I need to change the thermals on the vrams it'd be nice to know the exact size needed. I'd rather stick with thermal tape as it seems to be more putty like vs. the thermal pads I believe.

I suppose both would work mate

Any brand of 0.5mm pads recommended? Then you just add a bit of paste on it?

https://youtu.be/Ph2ibK79zd8

No paste they are double sided adhesive. The 0.5mm vmem may need a little paste but try it without any 1st. Good video on repasting and Thermal pads for the helios 300
https://youtu.be/Ph2ibK79zd8

No paste they are double sided adhesive, Arctic Thermal pads from Amazon are good. The 0.5mm vmem may need a little paste but try it without any 1st. Good video on repasting and Thermal pads for the helios 300

xapim

You can also use any thermal paste in the vram chips to replace the current one i have seen ppl using kryonaut on it and no issues

my laptop model is not of 2019 its of 2018 (i guess) 8300h i5, 1060 nvidia

thanks for all your feedback,

I'll pick up some Arctic 0.5mm pads I think then and try those. How do you test if they work? Close the heat sink and see if there are square indentations in the heat sink?

Here is a couple pics of my laptop when I opened it up initially. Looks like maybe some of the vrams were not even making contact.

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well, for my testing i assemble the laptop, open a Game (like Red Dead Redemption 2) and check if thermals are maintained constant, if the graph is constantly increasing, then **** got screwed,i think i also made a noob mistake, i placed some extra pads as well,luckily i have a photo clicked of original layout

xapim

Pb101 said:

I'll pick up some Arctic 0.5mm pads I think then and try those. How do you test if they work? Close the heat sink and see if there are square indentations in the heat sink?

Here is a couple pics of my laptop when I opened it up initially. Looks like maybe some of the vrams were not even making contact.

Stock thermal paste ?? :P

Replaced all pads with 0.5mm, the thing is temps for cpu 62 degree and temps of gpu around 73 degree at resident evil 7, its not spiking, remaining same, though 10 degree gap is too much

10 degree gap is fine

note: i just checked today, now temp difference is of 2-3 degree only, i dont have much experience but does the thermalpaste or the pads take 6-12 hours to settle down like that