Triton 500 PT515-51 thermal pad thickness?

hi,

I am looking to repaste my triton 500 and upon disassembly I noticed that on the VRAM chips and the little silver gpu chips was a blue paste type element. I am not sure if this is thermal pads that have deteriorated or something unique acer uses. However i would like the finish the re paste correctly. Therefore could someone share the official thickness of thermal pad needed for the chips mentioned as i tried 0.5mm and 1mm however could not get the correct contact as I am unsure which chips need what pads. Could someone provide the required thermal pad thickness for the vram chips, and the little silver chips please? Thanks

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xapim

neon989 all new models have thermal paste mixed with thermal pads on some of the chipsets in some cases and where you have the paste just use normal thermal paste to replace regarding the places where are thermals pads and not paste theres no way to know the exact ones theres is no scheme anywhere with that info and i doubt acer would release it to public neither its on any of the internal service guides we have access to either the only thing we know for sure its they are from 1.0 to 1.5 (some cases might be even thinner) depending on the models the only way to know its on disassembling of each device heatsink check them for the correct size needed (its always good to have different sizes at hand just in case) also if the thermal pads are not damaged theres no need to change them

neon989

I noticed this when I opened it up. Normal grey paste on the cpu and gpu. However on the vram and silver chips it was a blue substance thicker than standard thermal paste. I was just trying to see if anyone had a definite answer as to what pad sizes were required as I have used paste but it makes it quite messy in there

xapim

neon989 yes bluish sometimes pink paste over the vram you should replace it with normal thermal paste as you cant get that stock thicker paste on sale anywhere or u can try to find a thicker paste to apply on the chipsets and everyone that repasted the T500 that i have seen they used the same cpu/gpu thermal paste over the chipsets and didnt had any issues because if you use thermal pads might not work as intended thickness wise the heatsink might not be even leveled when back in place

kxjw

neon989 said:

hi,

I am looking to repaste my triton 500 and upon disassembly I noticed that on the VRAM chips and the little silver gpu chips was a blue paste type element. I am not sure if this is thermal pads that have deteriorated or something unique acer uses. However i would like the finish the re paste correctly. Therefore could someone share the official thickness of thermal pad needed for the chips mentioned as i tried 0.5mm and 1mm however could not get the correct contact as I am unsure which chips need what pads. Could someone provide the required thermal pad thickness for the vram chips, and the little silver chips please? Thanks

Hi
I am looking to repaste my triton 500, and i also was looking for the thermal pad thickness, did you found the size for it yet or should I just go with k5 pro and make a mess 🤔.

Thank you.

Zipo0

Did you ever figure out what to use? I used some K5-pro but it ended up making my computer run hotter (from ~69-72 C to ~80C) Should I use some 0.5mm pads? or should i use a lighter thermal paste for the VRAM like what i would use for the CPU and GPU?

xapim

Zipo0 said:

Did you ever figure out what to use? I used some K5-pro but it ended up making my computer run hotter (from ~69-72 C to ~80C) Should I use some 0.5mm pads? or should i use a lighter thermal paste for the VRAM like what i would use for the CPU and GPU?

you can use the same thermal paste as u used in the cpu/dgpu but if youre going for thermal pads i wouldnt go for the thinner ones would probably go middle size as they squish over time but either way good luck

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Kmina

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1042545#Comment_1042545

Did anyone ever figure out what thermal compound+ thermal pad should be used for best results?

Kossay

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1148279#Comment_1148279

Find myself with the same issue last week, I have a T500 the rtx2080 super maxed out version. I just performed a full cleaning and repaste it all, 3 times, YES you read it correctly 3 test 3 times, a pain in the....anyways...Sharing what I found:

-Thermal pads 1.5 didn't work, to thick.

-Thermal pads 0.5 didn't work.

-Thermap pads 1mm will work for all the mosfets around each chip(gpu and cpu), Also for the vram chips with the blue rare paste, I used the new Artic MX-5,

Same for the gpu and cpu.

Now got about 35ºc idle and about 70/75º playing.

Kossay

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1154482#Comment_1154482

Forgot to add a pic, managed to grab one from internet, there is no way I will open the laptop AGAIN for the 4th time lol so hope this will work for u guys.

Kmina

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1154485#Comment_1154485

Hey, this was really useful. Can I use Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut(Non-conductive) instead of MX5 thermal paste? I do not have MX5 available in my region(EU). Did you try TGK in your attempts?

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