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Thermal Paste

geordiejc

geordiejc

geordiejc

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I'm considering replacing the thermal paste on my Asus 1080 ti.

Will Asus invalidate my warranty? (i hear some company's are not ok with removing the cooler)

What pastes have you guys experimented with ?

this guy seen a 10C drop.

 
Funny how so many kicked up a stink about Arctic Silver being conductive yet this is the same but people don't have issues with it...
 
Don't use liquid metal use kryonaut or similar. Liquid metal has the risk of killing your card if not used correctly

In my opinion why not return/sell the card for something with a better cooling solution?

Are the temps really that bad you need to try using different paste?
 
Another vote for kryonaut.
on GTX1080 the difference between the MSI TIM is 10C (on air). While in WC against EK Ectotherm/MX4 is 13C on full load and 10C on idle allowing 2190 core clocks on mine due to never passing 33C under full load.

Saying that the Thermal Grizzly Contact is better than CLU, and is not gallium based to break down soldering.
 
I've used coollaboratory liquid pro on reference 780 Ti's in SLI, worked fine but didn't make much difference over other paste that I used like IC diamond or prolimatech PK-3. Clocks boosted to about the same with roughly the same fan speed.

Ran with it for many months before I switched back to regular paste during my cleaning.
 
You could always use electric liquid tape to insulate the resistors around the die. Some people use nail vernish? Id prefer liquid tape tbh. But that should help and make it easier to clean. Just don't go mental n put a puddle of liquid metal on the die. Still a risk it will run off. Dont use if your card is vertical only horizontally in the case but for decent paste use grizzly kryonaught.
 
Used Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut on my old R9 290x and saw a 5-7c drop in load temps. Very good paste albeit a bit pricey. Considering you got a Ti, I'm sure you'd be willing to cough up the few extra bob.
 
Bit of a thread bump. I recently bought a Zotac 980 Ti AMP Edition and have seen reports of poor TIM application. It's out of warranty and looks very easy to take off the cooler. Just wanted to check, assume AS5 is OK for a GPU? Only thing I have lying around.
 
doodah said:
Bit of a thread bump. I recently bought a Zotac 980 Ti AMP Edition and have seen reports of poor TIM application. It's out of warranty and looks very easy to take off the cooler. Just wanted to check, assume AS5 is OK for a GPU? Only thing I have lying around.
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As5 will be fine and is extremely unlikely to cause any issues even if it did get somewhere it shouldnt (as isn't actually conductive)

http://www.arcticsilver.com/as5.htm
 
There seems to be false rumours saying its conductive or will damage the GPU :p. Thanks, just wanted to make sure. Time for some AS5 and overclocking :cool:
 
doodah said:
There seems to be false rumours saying its conductive or will damage the GPU :p. Thanks, just wanted to make sure. Time for some AS5 and overclocking :cool:
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I'm sure in rare cases it being slightly capacitive could case an issue, but it's nowhere near as dangerous as actual conductive liquid metals (or indeed older versions of AS)
 
I replaced the TIM on my MSi GTX 980 and it dropped the core from 83 to 73.. I bought a big tube of Arctic MX-4 and used that as it's non conductive.
 
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