Arctic Launches the TP-3 Thermal Pads

[btarunr]

ARCTIC, a leading manufacturer of low-noise PC coolers and components, expands its wide array of thermal interfaces with today's launch of the TP-3 Premium Performance thermal pads.

The TP-3 are softer than conventional pads and therefore particularly suitable for different chip heights and possible tolerances.Thanks to their good compression properties, they adapt to the surface profile without putting too much stress on the components. This ensures optimum heat transfer even on rough surfaces. The ARCTIC TP-3 Pads are heat-conducting, vibration-damping, deformable, electrically insulating and therefore safe and easy to use. They are versatile and are therefore ideal for RAMs, chipsets and ICs of all kinds, which are used in PCs, laptops, consoles, graphics cards and electronic devices in general.



ARCTIC thermal pads come in a variety of different thicknesses and sizes, which can easily be cut to the preferred size.

Availability
The single and multipack variants of the ARCTIC TP-3 are now available in the ARCTIC Webshop, on Amazon.com and in stores starting at $7.99 (RRP from $11.99).

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[Chaitanya]

After Thermalright, Gelid and Cooler Master, Arctic has new thermal pads. If only someone were to review these pads(preferebly Gamers Nexus).

 

[TheDeeGee]

If they're anything like the pads that came with my Arctic Accelero Xtreme 4, then good luck with your oil leak.

 

[Prima.Vera]

If they're anything like the pads that came with my Arctic Accelero Xtreme 4, then good luck with your oil leak.

oil leak from pads??

 

[C1ff0]

oil leak from pads??

yes, from what i understand they (not only Arctic, even the others) use silicon oil to have better termal transfer. It isn't a conductor and won't damage the board, but can be messy on the long run with dust. No idea about this specific pad tho..

You can see this "problem" on older gpus and laptop usually.

 

[zlobby]

No main metrics provided? No buy!

 

[watzupken]

yes, from what i understand they (not only Arctic, even the others) use silicon oil to have better termal transfer. It isn't a conductor and won't damage the board, but can be messy on the long run with dust. No idea about this specific pad tho..

You can see this "problem" on older gpus and laptop usually.

Yes, it is non-conductive, so it won't cause any electrical risk. However, I feel the longer term effect is that the thermal pad will lose its conductivity, which may result in higher temps over time. The first thing that came to my mind when I saw that it is "softer" is that thermal transfer performance may drop fairly quickly because when the pad gets squashed, it may start forcing some of the silicon oil to get squeezed out. So that initial soft and spongy feeling pad will end up very dry and brittle over time, which will cause temps to go up.