Thermal pads for Geforce 8800 GTS

Atmosper · Post by **Atmosper** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 2:49 am

Hi!
I installed a zalman waterblock on my Geforce 8800 GTS some time ago. Now I want to sell the card but I want to sell it with the air-cooling instead. I threw away the original thermal pads for the ram chips so I need to find a replacement for those.

Does anyone know where to find such thermal pads? They're a little thicker than usual so the regular thin tape doesn't do it.

nd4spdbh · Post by **nd4spdbh** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:09 pm

id like to know the answer to this also, been looking for some thicker thermal pads so i can take off the stock cooler and replace the cores tim with AS5 and the pads also.

mentawl · Post by **mentawl** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 6:36 pm

Atmosper, you could try:

http://se.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse ... ller+sheet

The sheets of "gap filler sheets" aren't particularly cheap, especially in thicker sizes - not sure what thickness you'd need, although they are semi-squishy.

nd4spdbh, you could try that site too - Farnell have sites for most countries. Just do a search for "gap filler sheet" on whichever homepage corresponds to your country =).

nd4spdbh · Post by **nd4spdbh** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 9:50 pm

ouch thoes are not cheap at all!!!

hmm maybe ill just have to stick with my idea of using a thin sheet of coper to take up the space

nd4spdbh · Post by **nd4spdbh** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 2:27 pm

thejamppa · Post by **thejamppa** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 4:00 pm

Shoudln't something like these would do it:
http://se.farnell.com/jsp/search/result ... back=false

nVidia it should be around 15x15x1mm

nd4spdbh · Post by **nd4spdbh** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 4:40 pm

thoes unfortunatly are not thick enough

thejamppa · Post by **thejamppa** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:41 am

Thermalpads for Ati are usually around 15x15x1,5mm do you need even thicker?

nd4spdbh · Post by **nd4spdbh** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 7:34 am

that would probably do it, why you ask do you have a line on some for cheap?

nd4spdbh · Post by **nd4spdbh** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:50 pm

300+ views and only a few replies?????

WR304 · Post by **WR304** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:50 pm

If you take some of the thin thermal pads (such as the ones that come with Zalman ramsinks) and roll them up into a ball that makes a pad thick enough to get some contact between the memory and stock cooler.

It won't cover the entire memory chip but will give you some thermal contact.

nd4spdbh · Post by **nd4spdbh** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:12 pm

well theres an idea now where to get the actual pads for cheap...

djkest · Post by **djkest** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:04 pm

I thought the DDR3 on the video card didn't actually need to be cooled?? Maybe you could get by w/o pads at all.

nd4spdbh · Post by **nd4spdbh** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:37 pm

naw that aint gonna fly on my 500 dollar card w/ me

i found a place on ebay that sells em for way cheap.

http://stores.ebay.com/Arctic-Cooling-RMA-parts

nd4spdbh · Post by **nd4spdbh** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 4:30 pm

well today i took apart my 8800 and did some measuring, the gap between the ram and hs varied between .75 - .70mm

so while i was buying from the arctic cooling rma on ebay i decided just to get a buncha pads

20 1mm pads
20 1.4mm pads
8 .5mm pads

total it was only 11 bucks shipped! and suppossedly AC uses good 3M thermal pads!

zorrt · Post by **zorrt** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:18 pm

Are these pads soft like the ones that comes on the 8800gt? The ones on the 8800gt are thick but soft so they get squashed out.

nd4spdbh · Post by **nd4spdbh** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:05 pm

should be... ill let you guys know when i get them... they are commin from hong kong and it takes like 12 to 14 days and they shipped on the 12th... so right round xmas day i expect them... although mail dont get delivered then..

Atmosper · Post by **Atmosper** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:52 pm

I ordered some 1 mm and 2.5 mm pads from the AC RMA on Ebay. They came yesterday and when I checked the manual of my GF8800GTS waterblock the pads that came with it was 16x16x1 mm. So I tried the 1 mm size and it seemed to fit good.

The shipping took about two weeks. Highly recommended.