replacing the thermal paste for Acer Predator Triton 500

Hjar1999
Hjar1999 Member Posts: 1 New User

Dear Acer Support Team, I purchased my Acer Predator Triton 500 around four years ago. I'm considering replacing the thermal paste and would like your advice on whether to use thermal pads or thermal putty for the VRAM.

and Should I change the thermal paste after four years, or is it fine to stick with the original?

if yes, could you advise on the best thermal paste for my laptop? Also, between using thermal pads or putty for VRAM, which would you recommend?

ARCTIC MX-6 (4 g)ARCTIC TP-3

and what about those ones?

Thank you!

Answers

  • StevenGen
    StevenGen ACE Posts: 12,872 Trailblazer

    Acer community is NOT Acer official support, as we are a peer to peer community of Acer product users just like you. My suggestion for your Triton 500 laptop is this, as after 4 years I strongly suggest that you change the cpu/gpu paste and pad paste for the vram chips of your laptop which could be entirely dried out and useless.

    Changing the paste is not a small job, make sure that you disconnect the main battery and remove the adapter from the laptop so that the laptop doesn't have any power, wear a antistatic wrist band before attempting to touch the laptop. Then clean the cpu/gpu and vram paste off completely from your laptop with Isopoll alcohol and a lint free tissue or cloth and and then I suggest that you use the Thermal Grizzly paste products and thermal pads below, as they are the best. Btw, the Thermal Grizzly products work 100% as I use them on my Nitro 5 laptops successfully that is why I'm suggesting these top grade products to you. Good luck and hope this helps you out.

    Thermal Grizzly products that you should use:

    1. Use Conductonaut Extreme liquid metal for the CPU (see PDF guide below)
    2. Use Kryonaut Extreme that is a high performance paste for the GPU
    3. 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 and build these pads up so that the VRAM touch the thermal module equally with the cpu/gpu paste.

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