Changing Thermal Pads on AMD VGA RAM. An Upgrade?

[Plimogz]

I'm thinking of replacing the stock thermal padding on my 7950's memory chips with some Fujipoly_Extreme_System_Builder_Thermal_Pad from FrozenCPU.com.

I see that they classify their TIM pads as premium, extreme and ultra extreme, with respective thermal conductivities of 6, 11 and 17 W/mK. The performance/cost advantage looks to go the extreme with its 11 W/mK for a way more affordable price than the ultra extreme.

I'm just wondering if this stuff is likely to be an upgrade to the stock pads which usually ship on GFX cards? Would the cheaper 6 W/mK still be better than what most manufacturers put on their chips?

 

[Kenmitch]

Being a TF3 series I doubt they went with the cheapest pads known to man. OEM's buy in bulk so pricing in the retail chain isn't a good way to second guess what they used. Without knowing the W/mK of what they used you could wind up downgrading.