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Hi,
need some help from you about Thermal Pad and thickness for some IBM/Lenovo models, down is the list. In HMM I did not find anything about Thermal Pads and thickness or maybe I missed the Content. I would appreciate if you could help me, thanks.

IBM/Lenovo X60, X60s, X61, X61s - HMM
https://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/p ... 550_04.pdf

ThinkPad® T60 and T60p (15.4-inch widescreen) - HMM
https://thinkpads.com/support/hmm/hmm_p ... 137_02.pdf


• IBM X60s
• LenovoT60p
• Lenovo X61T
• Lenovo X61 WAN
• Lenovo X61s WAN
• Lenovo X300 WAN
• Lenovo X270 i7 7500u
• Lenovo M920q Tiny i7 8700T

The general opinion is 1mm to max. 1.5mm thick.
Never seen an official IBM/Lenovo statement about it.

RealBlackStuff wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 07, 2024 4:49 am

The general opinion is 1mm to max. 1.5mm thick.
Never seen an official IBM/Lenovo statement about it.

From personal experience, 1.5mm is too thick for the X61. I'd pick 1mm max.

I will take booth size from Thermal Pad because I find here that the best size mach for T60p is 1.5mm, so just in case to have this thickness too, but in smaller size (85x45mm) 21W, for X61/X61s I will take (100x100mm) 21W because I have IBM X60s x 2 pcs., and Lenovo X61s x 4 pcs., one X61T and one X61, all together 6. Laptops waiting for me already. Thank you for the suggestions, you have helped me a lot.

Small correction, they have talking about using a 1.5mm Copper Shim on T60, so I will take only 1.00mm size of Thermal Pad.

I just replaced the thermo pad in my X61T. The original one was 0.5mm thick so I replaced it with the same thickness.

Your 'original' one was compressed/flattened after all these years!
The original size was 1mm.

RealBlackStuff wrote: ↑

Mon May 12, 2025 2:22 am

Your 'original' one was compressed/flattened after all these years!
The original size was 1mm.

Thanks. I should have thought of that. Oh well, I have a heavy duty cooling system coming in the mail so I'll change the pad when it arrives. Luckily, the thermal pads I bought can be stacked.