I have no idea what the right size is, but you can buy them at DigiKey and Mouser.
http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en/fans-thermal-management/thermal-pads-sheets/1179751?stock=1 http://www.mouser.com/Thermal-Management/Thermal-Interface-Products/_/N-71x7nZscv7/ - Alex -- Smart is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wise is knowing better than to put one in a fruit salad. On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:38 PM, ændrük <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:05 PM, STeve Andre' <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 07/25/12 23:13, ændrük wrote: > >> > >> What should I use as a replacement for the factory-installed thermal > >> pad on the northbridge of a ThinkPad X60? I don't see anything > >> addressing this in the ThinkPad X60 Hardware Maintenance Manual. > >> > >> I think my options are: > >> > >> 1. a new thermal pad > >> 2. a heaping mound of thermal grease > >> 3. copper shims stuck together with thermal grease > >> > >> A new thermal pad would be ideal—but where do I get one, and do I need > >> a certain kind? Thermal grease is readily available, but using that > >> alone sounds treacherous. And copper shims sound popular among > >> overclockers, but that apparently risks damaging the CPU. What do most > >> people do after removing a ThinkPad's heat sink? > >> > >> Andrew > >> > > What are you trying to replace? "Thermal pad" isn't a term I know of, > > for thinkpads. > > > > --STeve Andre' > > > > Thanks for asking. Perhaps my problem is that I don't know the correct > term. By "thermal pad" I mean the gray, squishy square between the MCH > and the fansink. I've circled its location in red in this image: > > http://i.imgur.com/GKJFD.png > > When properly installed, the fansink comes in direct contact with the > CPU but leaves a small gap above the MCH. This gap is spanned by the > gray, squishy square. > > I originally removed the fansink in order to reapply the thermal > grease on the CPU, since the CPU has started overheating under heavy > load. The gray, squishy square didn't survive the removal of the > fansink, so I need something to replace it. > > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
