Using Thermal Paste on VRMs???

I just suddenly had thought of using thermal paste on my motherboard's VRMs, replacing the stock thermal pad. Assuming the stock thermal pad was crap seeing as VRMs on the Gigabyte AB350N Gaming Wifi went well over 120C under load when overclocked. Well, let's see how this goes!

[modrribaz]

My OEM had an atrocious 3+2 VRM design with no way to attach a cooler on, so I applied small pea-sized paste on a small circle at the center of each thermal adhesive tape I placed on its MOSFETs with a 12mm fan blowing directly on them. Considering my CPU no longer throttles down during its periods of turbo-boost, I consider it a success.

[enzoe.]

the thermal paste will probably be thicc and will dry because there vrm heatsinks always have a gap inbetween vrms for the thermal pads.

[howtopc]

Most YT PC channels just do simple PC builds which is kinda repetitive and boring. This is the kind of content that we need.

[eduardoavila]

A fan pointing to the VRMs directly (if possible) would help ALOT. Look for laptop fans. They run on 5v and use really low wattages.

[G]

My guess is that the better thermal transfer heavily suppressed the sudden dangerous temperature spikes that caused stability issues, spikes high enough to crash the system yet so short in duration HWinfo64 couldn't capture it.

[gageboy]

Didnt use enough? I used thermal paste on my laptop VRM's and got a 5c drop in temperature. Made sure I used enough.

[westhouse]

Honda ecus in the 90s at least used what I can only assume is thermal epoxy or thermal paste on power mosfets using the metal case as a heatsink

[goorthiss]

For vrms use gummy thermal paste K5 Pro, Laird Tputty 607 or Upsiren U6 Pro because have much better thermal conductivity than thermopads. Thermal conductive paste is not for that purpose.
And for the processor give PTM7950 phase-change thermopad.

[kommandokodiak]

just a heads up they make bigger heatsinks you can buy just find out the pin distance and then look up Nmm mosfet heatsink

[joshygaminghub]

The question here is that? does the thermal paste really spread properly under the heatsink?

[sotiris]

Have u tried using those little tiny noctua fans?
Try to put one or two directly at the Heatsink
I've seen a video of someone trying it in his HTPC because he had the same problem

[yoruinthenight]

My asus tuf a15 from factory has apply thermal paste to my vram instead of thermal pad weird

[aessniper]

You should try put the cpu fan firing down, the "hot" air will pass through the vrm heatsink and will be for sure under 120 degrees so vrm should be drop down and even the cpu a think cause you have an intake justo over the heatsink, cheers from Argentina 🇦🇷

[MasterJediSean]

your best bet would be to get a small pwm fan, about 40mm to 60mm and mount it so that it is blowing directly on the vrm heatsink. you will see a huge difference, mine dropped down to 45-50c. give this a try and you overclock more. cheers!

[AJDOLDCHANNELARCHIVE]

I'm curious as to why you would overclock a home theatre designed system haha? Do you use it for gaming too? Surely an i3 or even Celeron with the cheapest GPU with the necessary outputs would do the job fine?

[ykoof]

if i spilled a little bit of mx-4 thermal paste on my motherboard is it fine? its metal-free and non- electrical conductive

[Molai]

short ques:- applying thermal paste on vrms is good or bad?

[TheTschieses]

is it still possible to make hwinfo show the values like in the video? i cant figure it out :(

[CryptGai]

great content man! just a thought.. you think you'd get more accurate results by factoring in different switching frequencies perhaps?

[m.smanoj]

On laptop vram and vrms what to use pads or paste and if pads means what size bro pls reply

I own rog strix g15 i am planning to repaste on vram and vrms can i use Arctic mx4 paste