Where to buy thermal padding?

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I can't find this specific padding anywhere. It's the same padding used by manufacturers to place between the ramsinks and ram on video cards. It's the white slipperly teflon like padding that when torn has white fibers inside of it. Somewhat thicker than Thermal tape, I guess that's why I refer to it as padding
 
Thermal gap fillers are available, albeit at very high costs from vendors like Stockwell rubbers, Chomerics, 3M etc. Most of them are either silicone/fibre hybrids, or boron impregnated rubbers. Why would you want any of this stuff when it performs so poorly for the cost? :rolleyes:
 
I had no luck finding this stuff either when I put my oem heatsink back on my card. In the end I just used a large chunk of thermal goop on each ram piece. Probably not the best way, but I have no stability issues.
 
Cript said:
I had no luck finding this stuff either when I put my oem heatsink back on my card. In the end I just used a large chunk of thermal goop on each ram piece. Probably not the best way, but I have no stability issues.
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Thermal paste like AS5 is conductive and RAM has tons of pins on it..
 
YoureDoingMeDamage said:
Thermal paste like AS5 is conductive and RAM has tons of pins on it..
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I used ceramique, but if you have a better suggestion/alternative I'm all for it.
 
I had the same problem lookingfor this. I ended up finding it at fry's, which you may not have locally. They also have allumina adhesive, which I had to use because the vantec copper ramsinks are too heavy for the standard thermal tapes.
 
I'm getting it to replace the white thermal padding on my 7800GT. The card has been having problems. When I decided to take off the heatsink to clean it the sink was removed and pretty much the padding disintigrated somewhat. Of course I cleaned the dust out but the card still has the problem and I don't want my rma being ruined because the card might be considered tampered, despite the problem being pre-existant. I've heard evga allow you to take off the heatsinks and even replace their heatsink paste, but I don't want to risk admitting removal of the heatsink in case this is not really true.
 
if its having problems and its not related to what you've done, then you have no problems. You dont need to go out of your way to make it look like it just came from the factory if that's the case.
 
I took those pads off and AS5ed my ram as well as the core, no issue whatsoever, i think the evga 7800gt heatsink actually touches the ram chips (at least the co version)
 
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