Repasting and changing pads on a 2080Ti

[Michaeljcox24]

I'm running a Gigabyte 2080Ti and the temps under load are sky high (89C). I want to re paste, is there anywhere I can find diagrams of what thickness thermal pads to use and where? Pretty ok with repasting the gpu, that's not a problem.

Thanks.

 

[arknor]

you don't need to change the pads unless you rip them.

you probably don;t even need to redo the thermal paste, I redid the paste on a 980ti a month back that I had since launch and the only temp difference was from cleaning the dust out of the heatsink fins.

Try to remove the shroud and brush out any dust with a paint brush or suck it with a hoover

 

[ASMB]

Try youtube, internet search etc, eg don't know if this is your card., https://youtu.be/pMJr5MFCxms Some comments on there saying they only needed to repaste not repad

Interesting video on topic with some pointers on not damaging your card, https://youtu.be/-kPUq-q8tT8

 

[Sh4rkie]

I changed the paste on my 2080ti with some Kryonaut and it dropped by several degrees. Not a vast amount but enough and likely due to a poor contact with the HS from the factory rather than solely the paste itself.

 

[Aretak]

As said, I wouldn't bother replacing them. The stretchy ones don't go bad in my experience. I peeled apart a GTX 285 that had never been opened recently and the pads on it were still in perfect shape thirteen years later (the thermal paste less so). It's just those fabric ones Nvidia FEs use and the horrible, clay-like ones that AMD used on reference Vega cards that are a pain.

 

[Hasnath]

I'd say use some thermal putty like this. I've changed the pads on a 3090 with this stuff and it takes the guesswork out of replacing pads as you can be quite cack handed when applying it. It all squishes down when the cooler is screwed back down.

I've dropped my mem temps from 106c down to 82c.

 

[eeii]

I'd say use some thermal putty like this. I've changed the pads on a 3090 with this stuff and it takes the guesswork out of replacing pads as you can be quite cack handed when applying it. It all squishes down when the cooler is screwed back down.

I've dropped my mem temps from 106c down to 82c.

Thermal putty blimey you learn something new every day. Nice one