Carbonaut - Carbon Thermal Pad - Non-Adhesive, Flexible and Reusable - Very High Thermal Conductivity - Conducts Electricity… (38 × 38 × 0,2 mm)

Not too bad to handle. Cooling performance I've not tested myself as I found out the MoBo was dead on the PC I was going to build :( Ah well, it's definitely great stuff though, cooling performance has been tested thoroughly by others.If you don't want to replace paste and deal with a huge mess then this is for you, it also sticks to the CPU cooling plate so if you pull the heatsink off without twisting the sheet will stay intact and you can use it again and it'll lose maybe 3 degrees of cooling power.

This little gem is amazing for what it can do! Tested against various thermal grease, I found this is basically just as good, often better than all of them!The only exception being one, but that's not a grease... It's a liquid metal! It's the only one that outperformed on my liquid cooler, but not by much! Ironically, the liquid metal is by this company too!That said, it's a whole lot easier to use this pad than any messy thermal pastes / grease... or especially that metal (and to scoop it back off and clean the chip back up!) Its value is in the performance and easy installation.While it states it CAN be reused, I found you can maybe use it once.... at most twice before it starts to fall apart. Additionally, if it has undergone enough thermal heat from the CPU, the elasticity it once had is gone. So, keep this in mind! This happens usually after a couple days of use I found. Sometimes sooner if the chip heats up enough under stress.This pad, remember is thinner than a piece of paper. Think, thin as a hair! Once used, it becomes even thinner than that! Second use, it becomes even more thin! Starting to follow why it starts to fall apart? But I feel you got your money's worth even after the first use! The thermal transfer is simply AMAZING! Like I mentioned before, I had to try liquid metal to get better results!

The item works well, as does everything I have bought from Thermal Grizzly. I bought a little bigger one because I delidded my CPU and wanted to use some of the extra on the direct die, but in the end, I just stuck with their liquid metal for the better temps. I use their AM5 heat spreader for my 7800X3D. I trimmed the thermal pad to fit the heatspreader perfectly, and after boot, the temps were good. Nothing wacky happened on the first boot; it kept it cool. This was the first thermal interface I used for the 7800X3D, so I can't really say if it's any better than thermal paste I have used in the past. One thing is, since the thermal pad is so thin, it can rip easily. When I went to remove my cooler from the heat spreader, the corner was stuck to my heat spreader and ripped off from the rest of the thermal pad. It isn't that big of a deal because I was able to line up the rip with the rest so it was still completely covered, and no thermal differences were noticed either. But it's still annoying that it ripped from just removing the heat sink when the point of thermal pads is for longevity and reusability.

Works great and was easy to use. I had no trouble with the sheets after repeated removal of AIO block. That said, trying to remove the sheet ended up in failure as it ripped very easily and I wasn't able to reuse it after that. That said, the thermal performance was much better than expected. With a 360 AIO, on a 9800x3D, system idles at about 30c and during heavy testing loads it would stay at or below 80c.Setting up a new 9950x3D system (PBO on and modest undervolt/overclock), with a 360mm AIO, the system idles around 50c and also stays at or below 80c during heavy testing loads.Overall, very impressed. I'm sure if I used a different product I could shave off some degrees but I am happy with these results.

Far easier than paste. Same results. I run an AMD 7960 Threadripper with water cooling in an untreated environment (slightly below freezing to 115F... yeah, climate control would be nice). Running same temps as my old system with a TR 2950 had with paste. Using another, smaller, size for an old intel 'space heater' cpu without issue also. These conduct electricity, so make sure they do not contact any electronics. Very thin. I'd read that they were easy to tear, but I never came across that issue with careful handling.

After learning about graphite pads as a replacement to thermal paste, I was super excited! I'd already installed an IC Thermal Graphite Pad on another computer with great success (it needed a BIOS flash to support the CPU, and the re-usable pad made swapping CPUs a breeze!). For my build, I purchased this because I wanted the "higher performance" made out by the W/mk figure over the IC Graphite Thermal Pad.After the initial installation, thermals were good on my delidded 8700K (no-OC). About a day, I removed the cooler to find the pad "suctioned" onto the heat sink. Not sure where this "moisture" came from to cause it to adhere, I live in dry CO. To reseat the CPU cooler, the pad needs to be removed from the heatsink and placed on the CPU - the edges of the pad would fold over the rest of the pad when the heatsink is turned over, which would cause improper contact.Having read reviews that this pad is delicate, I took extreme caution when peeling the pad off the heatsink. At first I used tweesers - which just ripped the corner of the pad right off. FAIL! Next I tried just using my fingers to pull it off, again very delicately. This time proceeding to stretch and stretch the pad slightly.Whatever, got it installed again. A day later I needed to remove my CPU cooler again, and when attempting to remove the pad this time it ripped.If the marketing material around this product were honest, it would read "single use carbon pad". That's how this should be used.If you want a reusable pad, buy the IC Thermal Graphite Pad.