7040 cooling improvement with ryzen 300 heatsink

Framework Laptop 13
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Hello there,

I’m the new owner of a Framework 13 7640. The main drawbacks I’m facing is related to cooling. The cooling performance of the ryzen 300 heatsink are known to be greater. I’ve ordered the ryzen 300 heatsink thinking I could swap it with the current one.

Do you think it’s a reasonable play ?

Also the heatsink is coming with thermal pads, but framework also sell thermal paste. I was wondering if swapping the pads for the thermal paste was a way to improve cooling.

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The thermal pads will cool VRMs, you should not replace it with thermal paste. Maybe you mean the applied PTM to cool the CPU. You should not replace it with thermal paste either.

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90% of the cooling improvement is due to PTM7958. You can buy and apply PTM7950 to your heat sink and get similar cooling

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You are right.

I’ve made the replacement (with ryzen 300) and the improvement isn’t as much as I expected.

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Did you have thermal paste or PTM before?