Thermalright Quietly Launches New Heilos Thermal Pads

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When we mention Thermalright, we think of high-performance air or liquid cooling systems as well as accessories for DIY PCs and, therefore, products aimed at enthusiasts. But it looks like even Thermalright wants to address a more mainstream market, which is why this week it quietly unveiled its first thermal pads, as FanlessTech noticed.

While thermal pads often offer lower thermal conductivity and performance than the best thermal paste, Thermalright rates the thermal conductivity of its Heilos pads at 8.5W/mK, and thermal resistance at 0.04°C cm2/W. To put the numbers into context, the thermal conductivity of Arctic's MX-4/MX-5 is also spec'd at 8.5W/mK, and this is considered to be a quite decent level of performance for inexpensive pastes, as far as our list of the best thermal pastes goes. 

Thermalright offers two types of Heilos thermal pads: one measuring 40x40 mm for AMD's AM5 CPUs and another measuring 40x30 for Intel's LGA1700 processors. Both thermal pads are 0.2 mm thick.

Applying thermal paste optimally could be challenging for novices in DIY PC building, so specialists from Thermalright thought that advanced thermal pads could be a viable option for them. While thermal pads tend to offer lower performance than the best thermal pastes, which are usually designed for overclocking and tailored for particular types of cooling systems (air, liquid, liquid nitrogen, etc.), they are easy to use. Furthermore, Thermalright's Helios promises performance that is akin to good mainstream thermal pastes, so for DIY PC rookies, they might be just what the doctor ordered.

Anton Shilov
Contributing Writer

Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

  • thestryker
    I'm curious how these will perform in real world tests as very few pads have been able to come close to other TIM. This might be a PTM-7950 derived pad which would be fine as I don't believe there's a reliable way to get them without being a business.
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  • bjnmail
    thestryker said:
    I'm curious how these will perform in real world tests as very few pads have been able to come close to other TIM. This might be a PTM-7950 derived pad which would be fine as I don't believe there's a reliable way to get them without being a business.
    Almost certainly is just the PTM-7950, since it also has the same exact conductivity at 8.5W/m-K, same thickness at 0.2mm and same thermal resistance at 0.04°C cm2/W.

    You can buy them from some 3rd party retailers like moddiy, but they're just resellers since you do need to be a business to buy them from Honeywell.

    Still this should increase availability for them and make them more commonly accessible, as they really do work well and are nice and easy to use.
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  • Helstar
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    bjnmail said:
    Almost certainly is just the PTM-7950, since it also has the same exact conductivity at 8.5W/m-K, same thickness at 0.2mm and same thermal resistance at 0.04°C cm2/W.

    You can buy them from some 3rd party retailers like moddiy, but they're just resellers since you do need to be a business to buy them from Honeywell.

    Still this should increase availability for them and make them more commonly accessible, as they really do work well and are nice and easy to use.
    I found it on Amazon for $6.99 that their email support sent me a link to it. Has no reviews went unnoticed I bought one though to try it out in a few days. I've never used the Honeywell ones or any I couldn't afford the Moddiy one's and Aliexpress and Ebuy7 were 2+ weeks delivery time.
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