Thursday, July 27th 2023
Thermalright Site Updated with Heilos Thermal Pad Products
Thermalright has taken yet another low-key approach to announcing new products—the Taiwan hardware cooling specialist has updated its website with Heilos thermal pads. The model name looks to be a typo—should they have used "Helios" instead? A prominent sun graphic is placed on the bottom left of Thermalright's packaging for both of the Intel and AMD variants. It is unfortunate that something got lost in translation, or a spellcheck did not pick up on the small error before going to print/publication. Anyway...Thermalright is offering two sizes, with an identical 0.2 mm thickness—40x40 mm for AMD's AM4/AM5 CPU platforms, and a smaller pad (40x30 mm) for Intel LGA115X/1200/1700 CPUs. Pricing and availability is TBD.
These easy-peel away applicators provide an alternative route for users who fret about the best way to deal with traditional tubes of thermal paste. Tom's Hardware has pored over the Heilos specs—these pads offer thermal conductivity performance (8.5 W/mK) and resistance (0.04°C cm²/W), comparable (in their opinion) to "inexpensive" tubes of Arctic MX-4 and MX-5. The latter ranks at number four on the publication's "list of the best thermal pastes." Older thermal pads from other manufacturers have been criticized for falling short in terms of cooling performance, when cross-referenced against market leading thermal pastes—it is encouraging to see Thermalright addressing these concerns (specs-wise). We hope that evaluation samples have been sent out to review outlets.
Heilos Intel Product Description
Specifications:
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Sources:
Fanless Tech, Thermalright Heilos Intel Product Page, Tom's Hardware, Thermalright Heilos AMD Product Page
These easy-peel away applicators provide an alternative route for users who fret about the best way to deal with traditional tubes of thermal paste. Tom's Hardware has pored over the Heilos specs—these pads offer thermal conductivity performance (8.5 W/mK) and resistance (0.04°C cm²/W), comparable (in their opinion) to "inexpensive" tubes of Arctic MX-4 and MX-5. The latter ranks at number four on the publication's "list of the best thermal pastes." Older thermal pads from other manufacturers have been criticized for falling short in terms of cooling performance, when cross-referenced against market leading thermal pastes—it is encouraging to see Thermalright addressing these concerns (specs-wise). We hope that evaluation samples have been sent out to review outlets.
Specifications:
- Dimensions：L30 mm x W40 mm x T0.2 mm
- Thermal Conductivity（W / m-k)：8.5 W/mk
- Color：Gray
- Thermal Resistance：0.04° cm²/W
- Resistivity：2.1×10¹⁴ Ω·cm
- Electrically Conductive：NO
- Harmless：YES
- Thickness：0.2 mm
- Intel：LGA115X/1200/1700
Specifications:
- Dimensions：L40 mm x W40 mm x T0.2 mm
- Thermal Conductivity（W / m-k)：8.5 W/mk
- Color：Gray
- Thermal Resistance：0.04° cm²/W
- Resistivity：2.1×10¹⁴ Ω·cm
- Electrically Conductive：NO
- Harmless：YES
- Thickness：0.2 mm
- AMD：AM4/AM5
16 Comments on Thermalright Site Updated with Heilos Thermal Pad Products
Anyway, these tests and article are complete bullocks because they measure only fresh application and not how TP actually holds up with time, which is the most important factor for 99% of users.
There are a lot of knock off phase change material sheets out there on Ebay and Aliexpress so just depends where Thermalright sourced it from.