Barnesy960

Saw the misery with the thermal tape and remembered that I used an Arctic Accelero Twin Turbo II on a stock RX 480 I got years back and not only did it have great performance as a cooler (topped out at 55C down from throttling at 90C) but it came with a thermal adhesive tube (glue?) that worked awesome. Got all the aluminium heatsinks in place with the glue (made sure the cooler would fit after it dried) and left it overnight and the heatsinks haven't moved since. Of course it's a one time job so I can't reattach the stock cooler, but I really don't think I want to. But yeah, Arctic have a much better adhesive if you're confident enough to permanently attach heatsinks to the pcb. Only thing to note was that the cooler technically wasn't made to work with an RX 480, so the spacers that came with it didn't really space the board from the cooler, leading to a small pcb bend. Less than a millimetre (or thereabouts), but still there. Though, half the fun of ghettoing is getting stuff that shouldn't work together to work together.