Sony Has a Thermal Sheet as Good as Thermal Paste

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You could soon get to use something other than messy thermal compound for CPUs and GPUs.

Sony recently demonstrated a thermal sheet, which the company claims is matching paste in thermal performance, but besting it in lifetime.

According to Sony, the sheet is between 0.3 and 2.0mm thick and features a thermal resistance of 0.4-0.2K·cm2/W. Sony has offered thermal pads for some time, such as the EX50000, which, however, cannot match the performance of thermal paste.

"The EX20000C is the first sheet that has such a low thermal resistance," the company said, according to an article published by Tech-On.

There was no information when the EX20000C could become commercially available.

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39 Comments Comment from the forums
  • thorkle
    Try using Arctic Silver 5 and do this again...
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  • victorious 3930k
    AS5 is CRAP.
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  • americanbrian
    MX-3 is my TIM of choice...
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  • victorious 3930k
    MX4 or Indigo Xtreme for me.
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  • JOSHSKORN
    Can't wait for this stuff to become more available and sites like Toms to give it a real test across different thermal pastes (like the ones mentioned in other comments) , CPUs and overclocks.
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  • thorkle
    victorious 3930kAS5 is CRAP.That sounds quite biased to me, the research can lean either way, but AS5 is always up there.
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  • neiroatopelcc
    victorious 3930kAS5 is CRAP.No it's not! It's not the best around, but it's still rather good.
    Beats the orange/red thing stock on coolers, beats the white discount stuff and is on par with zalman or other quality products.
    I prefer arctic ceramic though, although I'm using mx3 at the moment.
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  • punnar
    This would make it easier for novice builders in terms of application.
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  • EDVINASM
    punnarThis would make it easier for novice builders in terms of application.
    Not just. Everyone but extreme overclockers or people who want to get dirty would use it. I have applied the paste tons of times and all successful and yielded good results but it's just messy and you have to watch for bubbles etc. With product like Sony's I think my life would be much easier. Need to have a look at it first but I do like the idea.
    My moto is simple - if it works within 5-10% margin of best product and is much easier to use - it IS the best product.
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  • alidan
    show me the sheet on 2 highly overclocked cpus.
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