The pink stuff are thermal pads, somehow it seems to have melted. The blue stuff is thermal paste.
Tactical_Hotdog
In my experience, different flavours.
Hattix
Pink is a phase change pad. They are high performance materials for when it’s important. The grey/blue is your regular cheap old thermal gunk.
Both are single use, so it’s time to get cleaning.
Ratonilla
Thermal putty maybe ?
MDParagon
I guess I’m still learning, I never seen one melt. Those pink stuff are thermal pads. Usually tapped to a VRAM.
Ubericious
Different materials, the processors will have the highest performing compound and then as the thermal management requirements of the components go down the compounds used will become cheaper and less thermally conductive for them.
In a previous job I had the unfortunate job of testing and modelling electronics and thermal management solutions; I also had to source thermal compound. A good year of my life I won’t get back
KrizRPG
Pink’s for girlies, blue’s for men
Ballerfreund
Light pink thermal pads (average variance), darker pink thermal putty (highest variance) and grey thermal paste (lowest variance and gaps).
Thermal pads are used where the distance doesn’t vary as much and pad thickness and softness can squish to the needed height, putty where the variance can be higher and not guaranteed effectively with pads, thermal paste for high heat components with thinnest gaps for best heat transfer.
Sylia_Stingray
Blue tastes better.
GreenGoonie
The pink one sucks and the blue one blows … combined, they form a powerful explosive known as REDLIGHT/GREENLIGHT
Using a phase changing thermal pad on these components would be a waste of money, esp if we are talking about PTM.
mister_newbie
Gender equality /s
Commentator-X
My guess would be maybe different factory equipment at different points of the assembly process using a different paste due to possibly availability or equipment compatibility. Perhaps different viscosities of paste work better or worse with different sized applicators.
Rudradev715
Pink thermal putty, Grey thermal paste
Xiten
For gender reveals.
KingGorillaKong
Wow thermal pads that actually melted into a paste?
What was the hottest recorded memory temp on that?
sryidontspeakpotato
Thermal putty is a thing used on a ton of cards for the vram and power deliver. It looks similar to paste
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Phase change thermal pads?
The pink stuff are thermal pads, somehow it seems to have melted. The blue stuff is thermal paste.
In my experience, different flavours.
Pink is a phase change pad. They are high performance materials for when it’s important. The grey/blue is your regular cheap old thermal gunk.
Both are single use, so it’s time to get cleaning.
Thermal putty maybe ?
I guess I’m still learning, I never seen one melt. Those pink stuff are thermal pads. Usually tapped to a VRAM.
Different materials, the processors will have the highest performing compound and then as the thermal management requirements of the components go down the compounds used will become cheaper and less thermally conductive for them.
In a previous job I had the unfortunate job of testing and modelling electronics and thermal management solutions; I also had to source thermal compound. A good year of my life I won’t get back
Pink’s for girlies, blue’s for men
Light pink thermal pads (average variance), darker pink thermal putty (highest variance) and grey thermal paste (lowest variance and gaps).
Thermal pads are used where the distance doesn’t vary as much and pad thickness and softness can squish to the needed height, putty where the variance can be higher and not guaranteed effectively with pads, thermal paste for high heat components with thinnest gaps for best heat transfer.
Blue tastes better.
The pink one sucks and the blue one blows … combined, they form a powerful explosive known as REDLIGHT/GREENLIGHT
Please tell me this is satire
Different flavours of bubblegum
Why does it look like a kitchen
The parts with the blue paste are the boy parts.
The parts with the pink paste are the girl parts.
Everyone saying the pink is thermal pads is probably wrong. The pink is [thermal putty](https://www.newegg.com/p/2MB-00B8-00003?Item=9SIBCKGK2M9994). My stock thermal putty was blue, and I replaced it with pink.
Using a phase changing thermal pad on these components would be a waste of money, esp if we are talking about PTM.
Gender equality /s
My guess would be maybe different factory equipment at different points of the assembly process using a different paste due to possibly availability or equipment compatibility. Perhaps different viscosities of paste work better or worse with different sized applicators.
Pink thermal putty, Grey thermal paste
For gender reveals.
Wow thermal pads that actually melted into a paste?
What was the hottest recorded memory temp on that?
Thermal putty is a thing used on a ton of cards for the vram and power deliver. It looks similar to paste
custom build RGB thermal paste, obviously