Open the processor socket on the motherboard. Align the processor and the socket. Lower the CPU until the pins are in the ...

Thermalright released a new type of thermal pad aimed at taking all the hassle out of applying thermal paste to a CPU. Rather than a tube of paste, Heilos is a 0.2mm-thick pad of thermal compound ...

I'm about to build a new PC with an AMD 64 X2 AM2 3800+. No immediate plans to overclock.<BR><BR>I have a tube of arctic silver handy, but there's already a thermal pad on the heatsink.<BR><BR ...

You apply the pad to the CPU cooler's heatsink and remove the backing tape. The pad isn't even much of a pad in that it's only 0.2mm thick, so essentially the same as a good application of paste.

Thermal pads like Thermalright's new Heilos have none of these faults.They're solid, so they won't make a mess, and they're not electrically conductive, either. Despite that, they have strong ...

Thermalright is better known for CPU heatsinks and conventional thermal pastes but now it has come up with Helios for those who find putting on the thermal paste correctly a bit of a chore.

According to the product page, users set the pad on the heatsink, peel away the paper, and then install it onto the CPU. The pads come pre-cut in two sizes: 30x40x0.2mm for Intel processors and ...

Arctic Silver, specifically. Little rubber caps fits tight. A test push on the plunger gave a tiny bit of liquid, probably the volume of the neck of the ...

One YouTuber has found a clever fix for the MacBook Air’s CPU woes, though. Max Tech placed thermal pads on the MacBook Air’s motherboard, based on the theory that the pads would help disperse ...