Cooling Thermal Pad Replacement, Benefits?

kodakrome

Efficiency Noob
Original poster
Dec 6, 2018
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I was wondering if anyone has any experience with thermal pad replacement. Specifically, I was reading Confusis' review of the ASRock’s Z390 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ac which identified some off-brand thermal pad.

In general, I was wondering if anyone had seen benefits of replacing, adding, or removing thermal pad in their builds?
 

Solo

King of Cable Management
Nov 18, 2017
855
1,422
For an M.2 drive? It matters about as much as RGB. It doesn't need to be there.
 
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