Gelid Solutions GP-Ultimate 15W-Thermal Pad 90x50x0.5mm (2pcs). Excellent Heat Conduction, Ideal Gap Filler. Easy Installation

Used to re pad a 3080. Easy to cut to size and dropped temps a few degrees

After searching the web/YouTube for the correct thickness of pads. Found the thickness I needed for both front and back of GPU. I have the latest version of Nvidia RTX 3080 Founders Edition. Which require different thickness than the original 3080 Fe. For the back, I used the 3.0mm thickness Gelid Extremes. For the front, I used 1.5mm thickness Gelid Ultimates. Under load, VRAM temp went from 96 degrees Celsius down to ~70 degrees Celsius. I redid thermal paste. However, I did recall what I had prior to modification. I used Noctua H2 thermal paste. Under load getting ~ 59 degrees Celsius for GPU temp. The temps are with 65% fan speed for GPU. When cutting pads for both front and back. Don’t be concerned with cutting pads to completely over cover the chips. Try to be as close as possible when cutting and covering the chips. Reason being is because you may risk thermal pad overlap sections of the PCB. That would prevent you from closing the GPU enclosure properly. Causing not a good contact with die and heatsink. Then you’d have to open the GPU again. And trim the pads. To get better and straight cuts of your pads. Get a clean sharp utility knife or surgical type of knife with a ruler. I bought a arts and crafts set that came with a couple of knives, cutting mat, and metal ruler. Helped lots in comparison to using scissors.

Despite what's written on the box, 60-70 on 00 hardness scale which equals to "soft", those are more like in between medium hard and medium soft pads. So it's good for replacing the pads on motherboard VRMs or GPU VRAM, but for SSDs better choose something softer.

As the title suggested, these 2mm Gelid Ultimate pads are great for the backplate of the 3090FE. I was using the 1.5mm Ultimate pads originally but the temps were okay despite not making a solid connection with the backplate. Wanting better, I gave the 2mm's a shot, at first the pads were hotter than the 1.5mm'. I let the GPU get hot and then gently sandwich pressed the GPU in an effort to compress them a little. After doing so, my temps dropped to lower than the 1.5mm Gelids's by 2c. I don't post temps b/c as attached by the screenshot, I did some external cooling modding with heatsinks and fans. That said, attached are photo examples of what my mining results and mod look like. Note, the noctua fans on top are 120mm and the bottom 3 are 99mm(or whatever the size is below 120mm) all 5 fans at 100%. I don't have gaming temps ATM to share b/c I'm mining but with the 1.5mm Gelid Extreme on the GPU die side, pasted with Thermalright TFX paste my hotspot temp and GPU temp are at the 10c minimum (best the 3090FE can do). In furmark my GPU doesn't go over 58c.Long winded review but wanted to share the learning curve of the 2mm pads on a 3090FE. (The need to sandwich the GPU after it's heated up)

Installed these on MacBook Air M2 to reduce throttling. Definelty pulls heat to bottom of case. However, I found these to tear and crumble easier than the thermal right. I would assume that is the reason for the cost difference between the two brands.

I used this brand several times in my laptops because the quality is the best you can find, my last laptop arrived very easily to 100C and now the difference is it arrives to the same 100C but it cools faster and the base temeperature is near 41C when it normally was 50C with the same ambient temperature.

Amazing! After installing these on the VRAM for my MSI Ventus 3080 10GB OC Edition, my VRAM temperatures dropped 16 degrees Celsius under load. FYI, replacing the 3mm pads on the rear backplate did next to nothing, and replacing the other pads that weren't covering the memory chips did basically nothing as well. You just need to replace the VRAM pads and you should see massive improvement. Absolutely amazing drop in temperature for me after switching these Gelid Ultimate pads - highly recommended!

There are not a lot of great guides on thermal pads. I had to do some deep digging and found a few honest reviews. Thermal paste is more often reviewed. Used this on my Pi 4 with Argon One m.2 case, my graphics card, my laptop with dedicated graphics and with motherboard chipset. This has helped lower all temps quite a bit and improve stability of all systems I have used it in. Most noticeable was my motherboard chipset which dropped 13F. THANK YOU Gelid. I also have used the Extreme, but spend the few bucks to get the Ultimate. It is definitely worth it.

This is fantastic performing thermal pad however you may want to downgrade to the Extreme line if using these for a GPU. Bought multiple of these which ultimately went to waste because they are too firm and prevent the GPU heatsink making good contact with the GPU chip when applied to RAM. The Extremes have a softer consistency which allows them to be squashed a little more under pressure which is essential for many GPUs to get good all round contact.I wish someone had told me this before I started buying as I would have saved around £40 or more.

The memory junction on my card was hitting 106c with 100% fan. I bought some Arctic pads that were marginally cheaper, but they didn't really affect the temperature in the the way that I'd hoped, though they dropped to 100c. I took a chance hoping that these Gelid pads would be better and I'm so pleased I did. After 1 hour mining with the same settings the memory junction is showing as 86c. The ambient temperature is the same so all things being equal I'm seeing a total drop of 20c in contrast to the stock pads.

J'ai acheté le pad thermique Gelid Ultimate 90x50x1,5mm, qui a une conductivité thermique de 15 W/mK.Cette gamme Ultimate est la plus haute gamme chez Gelid Solutions. Et ça se voit.15 W/mK, c'est une conductivité thermique énorme pour un pad thermique, ils font clairement partie des meilleurs sur le marché, avec les Fujipoly qui ont 17 W/mK.J'ai utilisé ce pad thermique pour refroidir au maximum la VRAM sur ma 3090FE, car si vous en possédez une et que vous la poussez un peu (minage ou rendu 3d) vous aurez déjà remarquez que la VRAM chauffe beaucoup trop (+110°) et que cela provoque un thermal throttling.J'ai combiné à cela un peu de pâte thermique MX-5 (la toute nouvelle), que j'ai appliqué sur les chipset memory, ainsi que du côté backplate (donc de la pate thermique des 2 côtés du pad finalement, pour maximiser la surface de conductivité thermique.)Résultat, pour des réglages identiques en termes de puissance (en OC), je suis passé de 106/108°, à 78°.Bref les résultats sont sans appel, les pads thermique de base sur la 3090FE sont totalement inutiles, alors que les Gelid Ultimate sont quant à eux, EXCELLENT.

Con lo shortage e il dilagare del mining, anche la vendita di questi pad si è intensificata.Ho tante schede video a lavorare e scelto solo i pad migliori per le mie schede. Ho testato i pad senza marchio,artic e One Enjoy.I gelid sono i migliori.Malleabili e aderiscono per bene.Per una tolleranza leggermente maggiore si schiacciano e fanno un buon Contatto.Le sottomarche (blu e azzurro) sono assolutamente pessimi.Sono duri e hanno una conducibilità pessima.Artic costano relativamente poco ma non performano quanto i gelid.One Enjoy è al livello di gelid.Tutto molto bello ma COSTANO TROPPO.Pezzettini di silicone non possono costare così tanto. Il prezzo al kilo è maggiore dei tartufi.Comunque mi sento di consigliarli.Ultima nota importantissima:Se non conoscete lo spessore dei pad, usate un calibro.Non esagerate con gli spessori altrimenti condensatori e processore grafico non toccano il dissipatore.

Ich habe die Thermalpads auf meiner Zotac RTX 3090 Trinity gegen die Gelid Solutions GP-Ultimate ausgetauscht.Leider verwendet Zotac auf der Vorderseite der Grafikkarte 2 mm und auf der Rückseite 3 mm dicke Termalpads, so dass ich zwei verschieden dicke Ersatzpads bestellen musste. Aber dafür kann ja Gelid nichts. Bei der Verwendung einheitlich starker Pads hätte eine Packung wahrscheinlich _knapp_ gereicht.Der Austausch ist für einen halbwegs geübten Bastler keine allzu große Herausforderung, das Ergebnis überzeugend.Je nach Anwendung und Benchmark bleiben die VRAMs um die 10-12K Kühler als zuvor.Für die GPU selbst habe ich übrigens als WLP Arctic MX-4 mit ähnlichem Ergebnis verwendet.