Thermal grease on pads?

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So will be doing my loop tnite hopefully it goes well this time.

Two questions:
- in the instructions for the gpu block it says I can add some thermal grease to the pads that go over the vrm vram and other bits (I think, obviously I'll read that again while done it). Does this mean between the pads and the board or between the pads and the gpu block? It is optional ofcourse.
- Also thermal grease? Is that the same as the stuff you put on the gpu chip? The TIM.
 
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Ive always done it, i figure ya might aswell while theyre off, use non conductive stuff though, only a tiny dot on each side.
 
I never have. the pads should be thick enough to make good contact and adding to them shouldn't make a difference. However I rarely ready guidelines so I might be completely wrong. I have never had a badly cooled system though out of the 20+ that I have built over the last couple of years.
 
The one plus of doing it - other than satisfying your OCD/paranoia - is that it can help hold the pad in place while you lower the block on top. There's rarely language as colourful as when you've placed all the little pads delicately on top of each chip, you put the block on and half of them slide off!
As with many things you're probably looking at 1 degree at most.
 
I don't think that thermal paste would help. It would just act as another layer (or two) of insulation. The thermal pads should be thick and pliable enough to fill the gap.
 
Yea I didn't bother in the end. I read the leaflet again and it told me what to use just not what side.

Can't beleive how much my temps where holding my gpu clocks back. Never seemed to get very high temps but couldn't clock past 75 and 250.now I'm more than 100 and 350.
 
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