Still works. They are not meant to be wet thermal pad. They are dry.

Get some 0.5mm or 1mm thick thermal pad next time.

Cheers,

Thank you for the quick reply! Good info.

Stuff like that I stick thin copper shims in, pasted both sides of course.

Thank you for the quick responses. Honestly I should have thought of the copper shim. I did the same thing years ago when i exchanged the ati x600 video card in my Precision m70 for a 6800 go. Man that laptop lasted me a long time. If only the chipset had support for dual core cpu's it could have lasted longer.

So with such a low power (15.4 watts) low speed chip, I'm thinking the thermal pad would be fine. Anybody think to the contrary and think that the paste and shim job will make a large difference?

Good thermal pads wil work fine. That being said, I have been unable to find any that actually have good thermal conductivity. copper shim and good themal paste will beat the snot out of thermal pads every time... just have to make sure that something like that won't slip out of place and cause a short.