Does anyone know if i can buy the exact thermal pads used from the factory?
Thank you for the help. My local pc shop said they may have a windforce rtx 2070 they could use to take the thermal pads from. Fingers crossed i can get it up and running again soon. Very much appreciate you taking the time to message. Thanks bud!Pretty sure only Gigabyte would be able to provide you with the exact ones, as even if you find out which factory they're unlikely to send an individual a small handful of pads. It's not necessary though, as long as you find out the right sizes and where they go, or take a good shot at it.
This is a tear-down of the Windforce 2070 with stock thermal pads:
The three thermal pads to the left have a lot less indentation than some of the pads to the right, so should be thinner and indeed look to be thinner. The others to the right look to be thicker and I've marked one as number "6" because that could be the problematic one (although there are other possibilities). The indentations on number 6 are so deep that if you happened to use an even thicker pad there, it would keep some pads elsewhere from making proper contact. You can see that even with stock configuration, pads 1 and 3 have very little indentation already.
You could tear-down your own GPU and check to see whether any pad is missing even slight indentation. And then go from there.
Thank you for the help. My local pc shop said they may have a windforce rtx 2070 they could use to take the thermal pads from. Fingers crossed i can get it up and running again soon. Very much appreciate you taking the time to message. Thanks bud!
Cool. It's best to use new unsquashed pads though. But if it gets your GPU working, well and good. Nice of your local shop to do this. You're welcome.
Hi. The card they originally where going to use was a faulty card from what i was told but the repairs guy is on holiday at the moment unfortunately.Anything wrong with the graphics card they have in shop? Don't understand why they would remove the thermal pads from one card to another. All they need to do is use the card as a reference to work out what size pads are required and then place new pads on your card.
What do people do if they go from a stock air cooler to a water cooler? and then decide to go back to the stock air cooler?
Have you tried contacting the manufacture? they might send out some thermal pads.
be wary of contacting gigabyte directly as i imagine you'll be more or less notifying them that you plan to invalidate your warranty (i assume they don't allow modification to the stock parts)Would i be able to just contact gigabyte in regards to getting thermal pads from them
Would be time to expand that OCD to other area.I am very ocd when it comes to keeping my things clean.
That PSU is very out of place with Nvidia expensive graphics card.