Acer Nitro 5 AN515-57 - Which of these items to be purchased -Thermal pads/ Paste (or) Both?

IcyIcePatch00

For context, I've had my laptop for almost 2 years. If I'm not mistaken, thermal paste is applied on GPUs and CPUs, but in my time upgrading and cleaning my laptop, I've seen pads on the smaller bits near the fans.

Which one would be the better option? I already know I need a thickness of 1.5mm for the pads, I'm more worried about buying something that might not be long-lasting.

[Edited the topic title to include the topic issue.]

StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/711794/acer-nitro-5-an515-57-which-of-these-items-to-be-purchased-thermal-pads-paste-or-both

Use the Thermal Grizzly range of paste and thermal pads as they are the best that I've found out over the years as they are a premium gaming high quality product that dissipate heat perfectly off the CPU/GPU and VRAM chips and is what allot of top techs use for gaming laptops and gaming desktops. The aim when you change paste and pads is for the thermal module to make contact with the cpu, gpu and vram chips equally so that the thermal module dissipates heat to all components.

This is the Thermal Grizzly products I've used on my Nitro 5 AN515-56 gaming laptop (which is very much the same laptop if not the same laptop spec as your Nitro AN515-57) my laptop has the i7-11370H cpu/RTX3050 gou/32GB DDR4-3200MHz CL22 ram, I use the Conductonaut Extreme liquid metal for the CPU while for the GPU I applied the Kryonaut Extreme is a high performance paste and for the VRAM chips I applied the Minus Pad Extreme which come in two sizes of 120x20mm and 100x100mm @ thicknesses of 0.5.1.0.1.5,2.0 and 3.0mm, so with the pads I bought the 0.5 and 1.0mm thicknesses as it was adequate to pack the VRAM chips so the pads making contact with the thermal module which is the purpose of the thermal pads.

Note: be very careful if you are using the liquid metal paste, as its a conductive paste and it can destroy CPUs and mainboards if you apply too much and not to how Thermal Grizzly instructs you to apply this paste! As if it spills onto the mainboard circuitries and especially underneath CPU or the GPU, it will short these components out and the mainboard circuitries also as it can destroy mainboards as its very hard to clean out, for all instruction go to Thermal Grizzly Downloadsas they have all the guides that you need. Good luck and hope this helps you out.

• Application Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut Liquid Metal Thermal Paste

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StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/711794/acer-nitro-5-an515-57-which-of-these-items-to-be-purchased-thermal-pads-paste-or-both

Use the Thermal Grizzly range of paste and thermal pads as they are the best that I've found out over the years as they are a premium gaming high quality product that dissipate heat perfectly off the CPU/GPU and VRAM chips and is what allot of top techs use for gaming laptops and gaming desktops. The aim when you change paste and pads is for the thermal module to make contact with the cpu, gpu and vram chips equally so that the thermal module dissipates heat to all components.

This is the Thermal Grizzly products I've used on my Nitro 5 AN515-56 gaming laptop (which is very much the same laptop if not the same laptop spec as your Nitro AN515-57) my laptop has the i7-11370H cpu/RTX3050 gou/32GB DDR4-3200MHz CL22 ram, I use the Conductonaut Extreme liquid metal for the CPU while for the GPU I applied the Kryonaut Extreme is a high performance paste and for the VRAM chips I applied the Minus Pad Extreme which come in two sizes of 120x20mm and 100x100mm @ thicknesses of 0.5.1.0.1.5,2.0 and 3.0mm, so with the pads I bought the 0.5 and 1.0mm thicknesses as it was adequate to pack the VRAM chips so the pads making contact with the thermal module which is the purpose of the thermal pads.

Note: be very careful if you are using the liquid metal paste, as its a conductive paste and it can destroy CPUs and mainboards if you apply too much and not to how Thermal Grizzly instructs you to apply this paste! As if it spills onto the mainboard circuitries and especially underneath CPU or the GPU, it will short these components out and the mainboard circuitries also as it can destroy mainboards as its very hard to clean out, for all instruction go to Thermal Grizzly Downloadsas they have all the guides that you need. Good luck and hope this helps you out.

• Application Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut Liquid Metal Thermal Paste

If this answers your question and solved your query please "Click on Yes" or "Click on Like" if you find my answer useful👍