Swapped thermal pads with a cheap roll, Mark's advice held up

My buddy Mark who runs a repair shop in Phoenix told me to skip the OEM thermal pads and just buy a cheap roll of 1mm stuff, cut to size. I thought he was crazy, figured it'd be too soft or slide around, but after replacing the fan and pads on my launch Switch last weekend, it's running cooler than it ever did. The trick was he said 'use a hole punch for the screw holes' and yeah, that stopped the pads from bunching up under the heat sink. Anyone else tried the generic rolls instead of the precut kits? I'm curious if the 1.5mm works better for the OLED model's bigger die.

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