Preparing to Repaste, what Thickness of thermal pads for Nitro 5 AN515-54-581e?

Laxim

Hello,

I'm prepping to repaste my Nitro 5 AN515-54-581e and I'm wondering what thickness of thermal pads am I going to need? I found that laptops mostly use 1 mm, but I wanted to make sure. Thanks!

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StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/711931/preparing-to-repaste-what-thickness-of-thermal-pads-for-nitro-5-an515-54-581e

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.

This is the Thermal Grizzly products I've used on my Nitro 5 AN515-56 gaming laptop with an i7-11370H cpu/RTX3050 gou/32GB DDR4-3200MHz CL22 ram, they are the Conductonaut Extreme liquid metal for the CPU while for the GPU you should apply the Kryonaut Extreme is a high performance paste and for the VRAM chips apply their 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 make contact with the thermal module which is the purpose of the thermal pads.

Note: be very careful with 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 as it will short the mainboard circuitries and ruin the mainboard, so only apply liquid metal as per guide. Good luck and hope this helps you out.

For your information I'm including this Acer Liquid Metal Paste Application Guide that Acer applies to their Predator Helios and Triton gaming laptops that is in their Service Guides and this is that guide for your information, but also follow the Thermal Grizzly guide specifically if you buy their liquid paste.

TG_Conductonaut_ShortApplicationGuide_EN.pdf

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