Blew $60 on a giant pack of thermal pads that were totally wrong size

Last month I ordered this big assortment of thermal pads on Amazon thinking I was being smart and saving money. Turned out they were all 1mm thick when I needed 2mm for the GPU memory chips on this Dell laptop I was fixing. By the time I realized my mistake I'd already cut a few of them up and couldn't return the pack. So I had to order a second set from a different seller and pay for rush shipping which was like $18 extra. Now I got this stack of useless 1mm pads sitting in my drawer. Anyone else ever buy components in bulk only to find out they're the wrong spec?

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taragrant14d ago

I got a whole drawer full of 1.5mm pads from the same mistake, had to stack two of them just to get a working height on an old GTX 970. It's like buying a giant bag of socks that are all the wrong size, you keep thinking maybe you'll use them someday but nah. The worst part is I ended up using one as a makeshift coaster for my coffee mug out of spite.

angela19114d ago

idk, is it really that deep though? Like yeah it's annoying having wrong parts, but calling it a "mistake" and getting all dramatic about it seems like a lot. It's just pads, not like you fried the card.