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Rehabbing toasty XFX R9 Fury

Dangerous_Dave

Dangerous_Dave

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Hi all,

I'm trying to switch an XFX R9 Fury back from a water block to its original (gigantic) triple dissipation air cooler, but have run into a bit of a snag: the cooler had a thermal pad for the GPU which had not survived the decoupling process entirely well. I tried using a bit of extra MX4 to smooth the cracks, but the graphics card was idling at around 40C and high 70s under heavy load. From reviews, I gather that the card is supposed to idle around 30C and about 60C under load.

Anyway, I took it off and tried just with MX2, but pretty much exactly the same result: 40C idle and high 70s under load.

I feel like the MX2 isn't entirely bridging the gap that the thermal pad occupied, but don't know what approach is best to fix this problem. Try to get another thermal pad? Maybe a 1/2 mm copper shim?

Anyone got any ideas?

Cheers
 
Dangerous_Dave said:
Hi all,

I'm trying to switch an XFX R9 Fury back from a water block to its original (gigantic) triple dissipation air cooler, but have run into a bit of a snag: the cooler had a thermal pad for the GPU which had not survived the decoupling process entirely well. I tried using a bit of extra MX4 to smooth the cracks, but the graphics card was idling at around 40C and high 70s under heavy load. From reviews, I gather that the card is supposed to idle around 30C and about 60C under load.

Anyway, I took it off and tried just with MX2, but pretty much exactly the same result: 40C idle and high 70s under load.

I feel like the MX2 isn't entirely bridging the gap that the thermal pad occupied, but don't know what approach is best to fix this problem. Try to get another thermal pad? Maybe a 1/2 mm copper shim?

Anyone got any ideas?

Cheers
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I've got the Sapphire Fury tri-x overclock edition which I run at stock, stock fan profile too, Opening real temp and gpu-z show it currently idling at around 37 degrees and I know that at load it only really speeds up the fans to catch the temp when it hits 75 degrees and it catches it by the time it reaches 78 degrees and lowers it back down to 75, that's at a 100% gaming load.

Your temps sound close to the norm to me, idle might be a little high but I'm not sure what your cards like, for example the Asus Strix has a full pcb and backplate where as my original Tri-x has the short pcb and backplate meaning easier air flow through a 3rd of the heatsink which means the Tri-x does better temperature wise than the Strix does,

Short answer:

Seems fine just monitor temps for a few weeks if you're worried and see how you get on. If they hold it's okay.
 
You can buy small sheets of the stuff you cut to size if you have a look around,
I got one once for an aftermarket cooler for a GTX 8800, think the manufacturer was arctic cooling
 
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Was looking at a high-performance thermal pad a little while back, think they cost around £10 per application but it seemed to perform better than the highest of thermal compounds. I'll link the thread in a moment.
 
I'm not familiar with the install but about copper shims which can be bought cheaply should be better than any thermal pad.
 
nashathedog said:
I've got the Sapphire Fury tri-x overclock edition which I run at stock, stock fan profile too, Opening real temp and gpu-z show it currently idling at around 37 degrees and I know that at load it only really speeds up the fans to catch the temp when it hits 75 degrees and it catches it by the time it reaches 78 degrees and lowers it back down to 75, that's at a 100% gaming load.

Your temps sound close to the norm to me, idle might be a little high but I'm not sure what your cards like, for example the Asus Strix has a full pcb and backplate where as my original Tri-x has the short pcb and backplate meaning easier air flow through a 3rd of the heatsink which means the Tri-x does better temperature wise than the Strix does,

Short answer:

Seems fine just monitor temps for a few weeks if you're worried and see how you get on. If they hold it's okay.
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Going by reviews, I'm fairly sure it's running too hot. I think it was designed for a thermal pad about 1mm thick , and probably isn't receiving much pressure/full coverage with the paste I have in there. Anyway, I'm giving this stuff a try: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GELID-Sol...390433?hash=item2108e8b9e1:g:ApwAAOSwCypWoQtp as I couldn't find a copper shim of the right size, and the liquid metal pads also don't seem like a good fit for these Fiji chips with HBM beside them.
 
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I heard something related to the Tri-x and how extra care needs to be taken with cooler removal and replacement because there is not an exact height match between the core and the HBM chips, It was something Sapphire Ed said talking on an interview with one of the lesser known American sites.

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I'm pretty sure it was in this one but it's only a passing comment he made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x361eWSIR_M&ab_channel=HiTechLegion

Listening to the start it might just be what I took from what was said at 2m 24s on, but either way it's something to take note of.
 
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