I've be looking everywhere for someone to say if these pads worked or not and I think in a few hours of looking I only found 1 person, so I decided to trust this internet stranger and try them for myself. Lol. I just got a used Red Devil 5700 xt to add to my PC for mining and it was running pretty hot at 70° core and 96° Memory Junction. I bought some cheap pads off Amazon before doing much research and swapped out the pads (Wathai Off-White 36pcs 15x15x2mm... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07N387VB9?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share) and applied new thermal paste (Arctic MX-4)

My temps actually went up after that to 71°C core and 100°C mem. So I did the whole process over thinking I messed up, but got the same results.

After l did some research, first I noticed the stuff I got on Amazon was 1.5 W/mK, so that was a red flag. Then I saw that a lot of people highly recommended the thermal grizzly minus 8, but that was going to take 3 weeks to get here, so I ordered the Iceberg Thermal DRIFTIce, which I got in about a week. To be honest I ordered both and probably would've put in whichever one I got first. I did order the thermal grizzly kryonaut thermal paste while I was at it because I saw it was highly recommended as well.

Well I put in the driftice 2 mm pads and kryonaut paste 2 hours ago and I am a happy man! I'm sitting at 65°c core and 84°c mem. I know thats not cold by any stretch but I also have a rx 480 8 gb mining in a cheap cougar case. I think the difference in temps is enough proof for me! Thanks for reading my novel, I've been obsessing over this stuff for weeks so this was my outlet.