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3090 FE thermal pad replacement success!

I replaced all the pads and paste on my 3090 when it was new it used to hit 100c easy and throttle so i bit the bullet and bought some gelid pads and decent paste, at the time i was cacking it doing it but it dropped temps by nearly 20c overall and ran much better
 
Cyber-Mav said:
Are original pads wrong sized? Or dont have full coverage?
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It's a known issue that they're just poor pads which don't really function that well to start with and degrade over time. Mine were like very soft marshmallow when I went to take them off.
 
ImMrChris said:
I replaced all the pads and paste on my 3090 when it was new it used to hit 100c easy and throttle so i bit the bullet and bought some gelid pads and decent paste, at the time i was cacking it doing it but it dropped temps by nearly 20c overall and ran much better
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What paste did you use out of curiosity?
 
It wasn't as my 3600X bottlenecked big time so i also had to buy a 5800x3D :rolleyes: but then it was unleashed to be fair the 3090 was probably bottlenecked too at the time
 
ImMrChris said:
It wasn't as my 3600X bottlenecked big time so i also had to buy a 5800x3D :rolleyes: but then it was unleashed to be fair the 3090 was probably bottlenecked too at the time
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Aye, I feel my 3090 is probably a bit bottlenecked by my 5600. At any rate, I'm not in a position to upgrade my CPU or graphics card at the moment, so I will carry on like this for a while. The 3090 is still coping really well with everything I'm throwing at it.
 
Arterion said:
After seeing some outrageous temps on my 3090 FE, not to mention the jet engine-like noises it was making as a result (loud enough to be heard from a different room with the door closed), I decided I needed to do something about it. Did a bit of reading and was astonished to find some of these premium flagship cards have shipped with garbage thermal pads. So, with some trepidation, I took it apart and replaced them - very carefully. And it seems to have worked.

GPU temp: 74°C --> 71°C.
GPU memory junction temp: 110°C (!) --> 82°C.
GPU hot spot temp: 93°C --> 84°C.
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Hey there, sorry for digging up such an old thread! I was wondering if you'd be able to offer some quick advice. As you used 1.5mm and 2.0mm how many sheets of each did you need for one GPU. I have multiple used 3090 FE I need to re-pad for an AI server.

I know it sounds stupid talking about being wasteful with money on thermal pads in reference to a threadripper multi GPU system but considering this is going to be quite a lot of thermal pad I need to order I'm a bit unsure exactly how many of each thickness, and which template needs to be cut out of the 2.0 and which out of the 1.5. The following cutting template by @CryptoAtHome only uses 1.5mm pads for everything. Also I see that gelid extremes are being sold as 80x40 and not 85x45 as the template is based on?

3090 FE Thermal Pad layout.pdf

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the GPUs are in pairs so if are you able to advise on a basis of 2x3090 FE that would be so helpful. Thank you in advance
 
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