Faranox

Exactly, they didn't rush the screw driver and it turned out excellent. I don't understand why they need to rush every video out when they have proved they can create amazing things with more time.

Then slow things down and focus on quality. Right now you are willfully (and I don't really understand why, you don't have shareholders) prioritizing quantity over quality. You might find that most of us viewers aren't just sheep grazing on whatever LTT videos pops up in front of us, we are picky and prefer higher quality videos. If you make more polished videos, you would have higher retention, more views etc. The algorithm prioritizes average view percentage as well. You have proven that you would rather just rush a piece out instead of taking the time and due diligence needed to make a high quality video. There is no excuse for this. I'd argue instead of losing $100, $200, $300, $500!?!? in employee wages on that video, you lost $5000? $10000? $15000??!?! on losing the prototype? I don't even think you would have lost money. If the time/money was spent making a better video, there would have been more engagement, you would have gotten more views, and made more money. Nobody in your company likes the lack of quality and attention given to videos, listen to them. You have nothing to lose by slowing things down. Literally nothing. You are a leader in the industry, don't lose all your good will from the community trying to keep up a high upload schedule waiting for the quality to improve. Slow things down until you can get things right, and then do it right faster. Right now you are just pushing as much junk out the door as possible, praying that junk to turn into gold.

Linus just needs to take his own advice lol. This is GN pushing Linus to be better.

I'm gonna test each pad individually, I think just one is way too high for some reason. I remeasured all my pads to be 1.48 to 1.53mm. I might just put some thermal paste on the pads and see which ones get spread out and which ones don't make proper contact. Onto disassembly #10, wish me luck I suppose. Thanks for the advice and words of encouragement. o7

I mentioned oct 2020 in my original post, card does boot after running for 5 sec without a cooler lmao.

2mm didn't even boot -> 100% fan spin so I shut off. No thermal paste contact at all lmfao. GG

Yea sorry I messed up and didn't read your comment properly. I'm trying 2mm pad rn. Thanks!

Oops I'm dumb. Either way, FE has issues with pad thickness consistency. Anywhere between 1.5 and 2mm reported. Just search 3080 fe repad

Amazon, also yea my pads also came with code.

hmm, fuck, and thanks - be back in 15 min after I adjust some pads

Yep, but I appreciate you making sure.

Whatever this means

I purchased an applied Gelid Extreme pads, which from my understanding is what is mostly recommended, as they are a bit more spongy than most other pads. They still seem to a bit harder to compress evenly when compared to the original pads.

My memory hotspot temps are fine (85c max). My issue is the GPU die hotspot temps.

I was under the impression that too thin thermal pads = bad VRAM temps, good GPU temps, too thick thermal pads = good VRAM temps, bad GPU temps (as a result of the thermal pads not allowing proper die contact). If I'm mistaken here feel free to correct me.