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Just buy an Rog Strix or a Gigabyte Xtreme and have no need for water cooling. The benefits vs cost and space are quantum.
'JUST BUY' hahhahahhahaha funny.
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Just buy an Rog Strix or a Gigabyte Xtreme and have no need for water cooling. The benefits vs cost and space are quantum.
It came!
Had a bit of a rush of blood to the head and thought sod it I am going to replace the Thermal pads on the back. I have been playing Days Gone and the
card has really been hot and loud so after tinkering with my Undervolt and a custom fan curve I've got it fairly under control but the RAM was reporting
102c with 104c max.
So ordered Thermalright 1.5mm Extrememe Odyssey 120x120. Watched a brief guide to disassemble the back plate and off I went.
This is my 3080FE (Bought 23/12/2020) and as you can see its not quite what I expected pad coverage wise.
There seemed to be differing thickiness, 2mm, 1.5mm and a strange thin 0.5mm piece below top right only covering a small number of the components in that strip.
(Why didnt they cover the whole lot on both sides of the GPU!?)
WHATEVER YOU DO - DO NOT LOOSE THESE TWO RUBBER WASHERS AS THEY ARE LOOSE WHEN YOU TAKE THE BACKPLATE OFF !!!!!
Okay this was my first attempt with the 1.5mm pads.
Assembled the card and ran Days Gone again and it made no difference apart from the max spiked to 106c!
So ordered some 2mm and 0.5mm then took the card apart below shows what pressure was being exerted.
So I decided to try and match the original white pads widths with the new ones. The right hand side on GPUI I used 2mm pads, I added 0.5mm pads where the
thin white one was before and also over the remaining components. The other side near the fan I left as 1.5mm. (note the picture below
contains pads on the cooler that I removed but in this picture it still shows they are in place. Forgot to take another picture before I assembled it again
os the indented pads on the right and left/middle were removed)
Tested Days Gone again and it now maxes at 102c with me dipping in and out of the game showing 98/100c. So I`m probably about 2c
better off. Hardly dramatic.
So my conclusion is that doing it (for me) was a pretty pointless exercise. I've kept the original white pads intact so I can replace if
I ever RMA and the only signs I have of it being opened is the black screws paint comes off showing a screwdriver was used but I
could always repaint the screws. Oh and if you do try this yourself bluetac is very handy for the magnetic screw covers !
Had a bit of a rush of blood to the head and thought sod it I am going to replace the Thermal pads on the back. I have been playing Days Gone and the
card has really been hot and loud so after tinkering with my Undervolt and a custom fan curve I've got it fairly under control but the RAM was reporting
102c with 104c max.
So ordered Thermalright 1.5mm Extrememe Odyssey 120x120. Watched a brief guide to disassemble the back plate and off I went.
...............
So my conclusion is that doing it (for me) was a pretty pointless exercise. I've kept the original white pads intact so I can replace if
I ever RMA and the only signs I have of it being opened is the black screws paint comes off showing a screwdriver was used but I
could always repaint the screws. Oh and if you do try this yourself bluetac is very handy for the magnetic screw covers !
You need to replace the pads on the GPU Core side, with Gelid Extreme 2.0mm for VRAM and VRM's for the front side (NOT thermalright), and then repaste the core with Thermalright TFX (great paste), SYY-157 (if you can find it!), or Thermalright TF8.
SYY-157 is a TFX (it's basically the same material and overall unique properties) but a lot easier to spread, but still a thick paste (thicker than Kryonaut Extreme). Performance compared to TFX side by side on the same hardware is 0C apart.
(note the 3090 FE core side needs 1.5mm Gelid extreme pads for VRAM and VRM's, not 2mm).
I got almost 30C changing the pads.I reckon thess gpus' have ram that are made to run hot. All the padding just takes off 2c- 4c, some claim it takes 20c off
Changed the stock pads on my 3080 ventus with some gelid ultimate and heres the result.
Before
after
Or did you just cool down the sensor really well?I got almost 30C changing the pads.
I got almost 30C changing the pads.
Gaming was fine at about 76c although when I started mining the card hit 92C originally but over a month it had gradually increased till it was hitting 108/110 so I lowered the OC which dropped it a few degrees but then it would creep up again, it got the stage where I was having to underclock the memory on a warm day to stop throttling and was having to faff about all the while with memory speeds so decided just to swap the pads out.Were your temps high from just gaming, or you doing mining?
Gaming was fine at about 76c although when I started mining the card hit 92C originally but over a month it had gradually increased till it was hitting 108/110 so I lowered the OC which dropped it a few degrees but then it would creep up again, it got the stage where I was having to underclock the memory on a warm day to stop throttling and was having to faff about all the while with memory speeds so decided just to swap the pads out.
That said if I was only planning to game then I probably wouldn't bother although repasting the core with kryonout did knock 7c off that also but the stock paste MSI used was terrible and all watery.
Got mine today, 3080 FE (18/6/2021)