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Why is my 1080 Ti crashing with Conductonaut?

Evian said:
Thank you for contacting Technical Support.
The heat sink used on the cooling system is a Nickel coated Aluminium alloy.
We do recommend to use of liquid metal compound on GPU.

That is the message I received from EVGA.. I guess i'm good?
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More likely they mean "do not use".
Even if TG Contactnaut is not gallium based, like all the other liquid metals, should not be used with ALU. If it was copper like every other heat sink, you shouldn't have issues.

And that "cheapness" of EVGA recently, along side the castrated power delivery on their 1080tis (except the kingpin all others are limited to 250W), made me choose the Aorus over the FTW3. (Aorus Xtreme has 375W power limit on the PCB and a huge copper heatsink).
 
Smffy said:
Are you mental? Put vinegar on your 1080ti... or just wipe it off with a dry cloth then use a proper citrus based TIM cleaner.

@Gibbo it really could use some warnings as it's potentially very damaging if used like TIM...
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No not mental, and i didnt mean douse the board with vinegar, just a slightly damp paper towel will do fine, i generally assume people will apply a little common sense and finish off the cleaning with alcohol or as you said a citrus cleaner.
 
Panos said:
More likely they mean "do not use".
Even if TG Contactnaut is not gallium based, like all the other liquid metals, should not be used with ALU. If it was copper like every other heat sink, you shouldn't have issues.

And that "cheapness" of EVGA recently, along side the castrated power delivery on their 1080tis (except the kingpin all others are limited to 250W), made me choose the Aorus over the FTW3. (Aorus Xtreme has 375W power limit on the PCB and a huge copper heatsink).
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Agreed, any form of aluminum (even plated), i would stay well clear with conductonaut.

Having had both they are both similar in terms of quality. The FTW 3 is a great card and PCB side the aorus doesn't really have any meaningful power/phase increases over the FTW 3, both seem to reach a similar power usage/limit (as the FTW3 has 360w tdp on its slave bios)

Each to their own but i didn't really like the Aorus cooler. Felt too flimsy for my liking. Heat sink did a good job though.
 
Is it possible that the liquid metal is not making good enough contact with the cooler? Maybe the tolerance is off.
 
darket said:
It depends how you cleaned it off, your best using vinegar as its an acid, this will dilute it down and clean the residue, alcohol based cleaners will just smear it about as its not soluble in anything other than acid, don't use anything alkaline based as it just causes a further reaction.
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Just used apple cider vinegar as that's what I had in the house.
 
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