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Hello, Today I was honestly thinking about so many things when I thought about re applying my gpus thermal paste. It's been rocking it for 4 years and probably should get some fresh thermal paste and thermal pads because the temperatures have increased quite a bit. But then I was thinking I've never really known much about thermal pads and what's good or bad. So I'm coming over here for some help. If anybody has any clue on thermal pads please share. It'll be much appreciated. Thanks, Fire
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Around a month ago I decided to repaste the cpu and gpu on my Acer Nitro AN515-54. When opening up my laptop I noticed that the pink vram thermal paste looked dried out and didn't cover the vram chips evenly. I didn't have a replacement so I decided to not do anything about it. After repasting the cpu and the gpu the temps were great but after a couple weeks I noticed that the temps were starting to get really high again. I thought it could've been because of my poor technique (it was my first time changing the thermal paste), so I decided to repaste again, and I just did. The temps seem fine, but I wonder if I should do anything about the vram thermal paste. To be clear what I mean, the pink thermal paste looks something like this: (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianGaming/comments/tnp2tb/what_to_do_with_this_pink_clay_like_stuff_on_the/) If a replacement is necessary, I am thinking of getting thermal pads (as it is significantly cheaper than k5-pro).
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Recently I wanted to replace the front thermal pads on the 3080 (2mm) and wanted to put thermal pads on the back plate because of the GDDR6X memory modules overheating. I thought I should add the backplate ones first so I ordered 3mm thermal pads. Once I opened up the card and cut the pads up , I found out that they’re not sticky at all, and they didn’t work. Can someone link me to double sided adhesive thermal pads (3mm and 2mm) that would work with my 3080? (I’m new to this so I hope i get some help!) I put on the non sticky ones but the temperature was the same and continued to throttle. Can someone explain what I could do? thanks in advance.
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Hey guys, I own a inno3d iChill GTX 1070 Hercules X3. And because I am a little obsessed with my system being the best it possibly can be, I regularily check the thermals. I have noticed that the GPU temps average climbed over the last year. So what i want to do is pretty simple: slap some new paste and pads on there. My problem now is that I habe no clue what thermal pad thickness is used. I found a picture of an opened card here, thats the TI version but should be the same, as it is the same physical size of chip etc. What thickness would you say this is? inno3d´s Tech Support did not answer me for a month at least. I need my PC daily, I can not just open it, look what thickness it is and then order these, so my solution until now was order everything and take the one needed in the process, but that would be a bit of a waste of money. If someone has any clue on the thermal pad thickness, any information would be appreciated. Thanks in advance Jay
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Hello. I have graphic card XFX RX 580 GTS XXX Edition 8GB. I want to open it and clean but I don't know which thickness for thermal pads I need. Some YouTube channels told that 1mm would be good. For chip I want to use MX-4 thermal paste, I think that's good enoguh, but for thermal pads I don't know. I hope you can help me. Thanks in advance. best regards, acmilan2
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Hello, I have a Gigabyte 3090 and I am trying to change the thermal pads on it. I looked at several teardowns and it seemed pretty easy to work on it. Once I opened it, the cables on the inside just wont come off, i have used so much force that if i put any more, it'll just break off the card. Am i doing something wrong ? Is there a clip that I need to press and pull ? I have been at it for 4 days now and nothing seems to be working. I have attached photos of the connector to give more context. Is there any non conductive liquid that i can use to make it come off ? I'm just so confused. I'm not sure if this is the correct forum, if I'm wrong please guide me towards it. Thanks for any feedback.
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Hello there, I am new to tinkering with PC-parts, so please excuse my cluelessness. In short, I have the following problem: After taking my GTX 1650 OC apart to clean it and replace the grinding fan, I also replaced the thermal pads and the thermal paste. Now, the idle temps are a good 15 °C higher. Clueless as I am, I did not measure the thermal pads thickness (no need to scold me, I now know how stupid that was) and just used 1.5 mm thick ones. When I noticed the higher temps, I stacked 1 mm ones. Nothing changed. I am fairly sure I would need 2 mm pads after measuring the leftovers from the old pads, however, I would first like to ask for your opinion on how to apply thermal pads the best: 1) Just use a stripe covering more than the actual parts that need cooling 2) Cut pieces more or less precicely to every part that needs cooling Also, the fact that adding an additional 1 mm pad did not change the temps, would mean that the problem weren't the pads, but rather the thermal paste, correct?
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Hello my fellow Nerds and PC enthusiasts I recently got myself a ASUS TUF 3070 OC and I am really enjoying the card. I am surprised how well the temps are and how well it OCed. I noticed the backplate is made of metal, but it doesnt make any real contact with the card. I was thinking of maybe adding some pads on the area where the memory is mounted next to the die. Also where Power delivery is installed. I know it wouldnt change my temps by 43296423 degrees, but I thought it might help with temps in general and hence its potential longevity. Do you think I should try open it up and try measure the distance between the backplate and PCB and get some pads? Or just a stupid unnecessary adventure? Stay safe everyone! Just for fun, have a pic of my PC :3
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For context This is my PC, where I have a Gigabyte RTX 2080 Super Gaming OC (link here). Note: I have 3 front 140 mm case fans (mesh filters exposed, not covered by metal closure on the case) and 1 140mm case fan in the back. I bought this card 2nd hand late 2019 and have been gaming at 1440p (usually 90 FPS cap) on it since with no problems (other components bought new). Then I joined Nicehash around March this year and started mining at low power (HW info reads 150W) for an average of 10h per day in addition to the gaming. Up until a few days ago, no problems: card runs fine, fans are not too loud even in demanding games (for instance Control with RTX on or Red Dead Redemption 2 no RTX) The problem I bought Kena on PC and played for around 3h sunday night - everything was normal - THEN, the next day, I launched the game again and after a few minutes I noticed my fans are running much much louder than usual. I went into HWinfo and my GPU hotspot temp was approaching 100C and fan speed was 90% I never noticed anything like this before, and I've played some demanding games at 1440p and ran multiple benchmarks over the years: 3DMark TimeSpy, Superposition, etc. Kena has 100% GPU utilization (same as benchmarks I remember doing months ago), but back then I never got these incredibly loud fan noise. I don't remember specifically the GPU hot spot temperatures before: because it was never cause for concern. I also don't remember specifically the usual fan speeds on a benchmark or stress test, but given the noise, I don't think it was anything like this before. So right now, if I launch the game, after like a single minute, hot spot temp is already close to 100C (GPU temp 86C), fans at 94%, power draw is around 250W, which reviews say it's about right for this card. BTW I'm using the default settings for clocks and fans set to auto - I'm not forcing OC. Room temperature is around 25C. Case is well ventilated and exhaust fan doesn't put out warm air if I put my hand in front of it, I feel like it's OK. (for reference with 100% CPU load benchmarks, the air feels definitely very warm coming out the back of the case). Even if I reduce the FPS cap to 65, after around 1h of play I get this: I tried other less demanding games, and if GPU utilization is like 60% or less (as shown by NDIVIA's overlay in game) everything feels normal, like it always has been. For instance I've also been playing Magic Arena and everything seems fine. Other than the temps and fan speed, all seems to be working: I have no crashes, I have no visual artefacts, no blue screens. At idle I have: After closing the game, fans go back down in speed very fast, in a matter of 2-3 seconds Physical inspection I removed the GPU from the case and inspected it. I clean the case every 5 months or so with compressed air cans and such, the GPU was barely dusty to begin with. I don't see anything wrong with the card, the screws around the GPU die were not loose (I tightened them a little bit just to be sure). I suppose the card has always had a slight sag, but doesn't feel like too bad, it's not out of what I'm used to seeing on PCs. I even have, in this case, a makeshift anti-sag piece of plastic that I cut to support the GPU and it's on the case ever since I got it. Questions What the heck is going on? What can the problem be? Did the thermal paste finally and suddenly went bad? Did mining on the card finally damaged it? Should I disassemble the card and replace the thermal paste and thermal pads? What can be done about it? Thanks in advance, if you need more info don't hesitate to ask!
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I've found that there's a bit of conflicting information out there as to what thickness I need to replace my stock thermal pads on my 1080 ti. I don't have a dial caliper to accurately measure it on my own. I'm assuming that 0.5mm is needed for the heat sinks and 1.0 for the vram, but wanted to be sure before I buy. Then, I also read it depends on how compressible the brands' thermal pads are, so might need a bigger or thinner size. Does anyone here have experience selecting, applying, and evaluating performance with different thermal pad brands like Thermal Grizzly Minus pad, ARCTIC thermal pad, ODYSSEY thermal pad, etc? Thanks for your time and help.
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Hello guys . So at the moment I'm lucky that I have 2 3070s 1: 3070 gigabyte vision that I use to play and another 3070 gigabyte 3070 oc that I mine and sometimes for renders and stuff. I decided to change the thermal pads for the gaming oc but when I plug it back the temps were soo high I couldn't even start any GPU program because the temps were at 80 and the fans at 100% I ended up placing the old thermal pads but one but it's the same deal same temps and fan speeds. Also on the other 3070 I just opened it to see if the pads were in good condition as well, plug it back and same deal , i didnt change the pads. Any suggestions on why both cards are now running extremely hotter than before
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Hi everyone, I changed my thermal paste and pads on my Zotac RTX 3070. It isn't my first GPU thermal paste replacement, but the first time I messed up. I've done the exact same procedure as Chapter 1 on 3 others cards in the past. I did overclock the card a little bit, but not that much, was perfectly stable, didn't do any big stress test or didn't touch the voltage tho. GPU temps never did go over 80°C. Chapter 1: The origin I changed the GPU paste to the Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut one (12,5 W/MK) I removed the old one with microfiber towel and a very little isopropanol alcohol. I carefully remove all pads with metallic tweezers without touching any other metallic piece. Then I cleaned the VRAM cells again with microfiber towel and isoprop, and dried it. Then I added brand news one Adwits 6W/MK (which aren’t that good after benchmark, but cheap). I measured the exact height of each original with a caliper and then cutted the exact dimension for the new pad. Result: Then the card didn't even seem to boot, and was not even recognized in GPU-Z. My first mistake: using microfiber towel may have caused static. I facepalmed afterwards when thinking about it (even it's so damn effective compared to paper towel) Second mistake: I've put a little bit too much paste, not like the Vergy McCumshot, but a little too much, which of course overwhelmed on the decoupling capacitors nearby. Third mistake: I screwed the sockets screw a little bit too hard, not at maximum but maybe a little too hard, I guess. Chapter 2: The revenge of the screws Dissembled the whole thing again, cleaned all the decoupling capacitors who had thermal paste on them, with towel and isoprop. I repasted very carefully the GPU with the exact amount of paste I needed too. Next, I only lightly screwed the socket screws. Double checked everything, found out that they were also pads on the other side as well, between the card and the backplate, cleaned and changed them too. Result: Worked, but heavy blur and artifacts. I don't have any artifacts in the UEFI or BIOS tho. The card is now recognized in GPU-Z, only the memory doesn’t appear. Chapter 3: A new hope Connectors seems good. I can't plug it through anything else than HDMI (I've 3x DP port + 1 HDMI), otherwise black screen. Did a DDU in safe mode, reinstalled the drivers manually, resettled the resolution at 1920x1080, blurness away but still artifacts. Result: Worked, but still artifacts. Chapter 4: Endgame Maybe flashing the BIOS will do? Aaaaaaaaaaand there isn't any corresponding BIOS files available for my GPU, so I didn't flash it. I can't even save the actual BIOS in GPUZ, when GPUZ stops the driver, black screen and it doesn't come back. Conclusion: I still have those damn artifacts. Memory not detected in GPUZ, Afterburner doesn't even detect the card. I didn't have any anti static equipment at the time, but now I do, and I now only use isoprop with a strong paper towel. I still was careful the whole time, unscrewing, dissembling, cleaning and didn't scratched the card or dropped it. I knew the risks. Things I've learned so far: -Overwhelming paste can cause trouble on nearby capacitor, even if I thought thermal paste was totally dielectric since its silicone based, turn out to not be totally true for some paste, which can cause troubles when overwhelming. -Take static more seriously. -Artifacts are mostly a VRAM problem, which can be caused by over screwing, lack of pads or good contacts between the pads and the radiator, corrupted BIOS and few others reasons. So, what is the next step? What did I miss ? Crying alone in a corner on my miserable life or repair shop ? Is it even repairable ? Are spare pieces even available at the current time ? Should I pay respect and move on ? Thanks in advance. PS: I've considered a Chapter 5: The Oven strikes back at 280°C during 12 mins to solve any soldering issues but I somehow doubt this will do anything since the card did perform well before the pad change. I didn't know if this trick it still relevant in 2021 with RTX cards.
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Hello. I want to buy thermal pads for my GPU, because I GPU temperature is getting near 90 C. I cannot get reliable information on what size of thermal pads I need for this. I can disassemble it and measure them, but don't want to, until I have thermal paste and thermal pads. Does anyone can help me here?
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Hello, I am working on a school project where I'm developing an thermometer but I have a small problem the main board with the sensor has a big copper plane which acts as a heatsink. So I was wondering if I could use an thermal pad as an high temp insulator but I'm not sure if it wouldn't just make the heat dissipation higher. Thank you for your time and I'll appreciate any feedback.
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Hello, i have just changed the thermal pads on a RX570 Gigabyte, i used 2mm thickness on all of them. When i turned on the pc it worked properly, but when i tried to run a benchmark, it goes black screen and the fans goes at high speed maybe is there something bad on using 2mm thickness? maybe a gap and detects it and goes black as a "defense" ? i used the gpu before, so it worked properly until i changed the thermal pads here is the card, tomorrow i will get a 1mm pad to check if it worked again (i removed the other 2mm thermalpads on the photo) i am a little anxious, i hope i didn't broke anything
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Hello, so I've decided to upgrade my thermal pad on my 3080 Aorus Extreme AIO after getting around 80-100ishC on Memory Junction Temp(Depending on the game) playing games at 4k Ultra settings, I decided to lower my res, and it did help with the temp, but I felt like it's a waste, so I decided to upgrade the pads, and it didn't really work out well, the memory junction temps got worse instead, I used to run games at 60-70ishC at 1080k now it got to 80ishC, not higher than that though. Core temp is doing fine around 23-42C. The thermal pads I use is Thermalright Extreme Odyssey 12,8 w/mk pads, I've used caliper to measure the thickness, and believe I got it right, however I do have some grease residue of the original thermal pads on the pcb, I couldn't clean it really well because I'm afraid of scrubbing too hard and damaging the card, and I have guesses that this might be the problem, but I'm not sure, and if it is, I wanna know a proper way to clean it. I don't wanna disassemble it again if possible tbh, but I don't think that's an option if I wanna fix it properly. So the question is, does "not properly" cleaning the pads off the VRAM on PCB affect temps much? *Such as leaving a bit of pad residue between each small gaps of VRAM modules, and a small bit of grease on top of them. Thanks in advance.
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I have my RTX 2060 for almost a year now, and I bought it second hand as a entire PC (got a good deal overall, the PC wasn't used a lot and still has active warranties). It can run hot, as most of the windforce cards, so I was thinking about replacing the thermal paste on the gpu and i have 2 questions: 1. Is it even worth replacing it with thermal grizzly kryonaut, or are they using somewhat quality thermal paste? 2. If it is worth to replace the thermal paste, are they using thermal pads under the heatsink? If so, what thickness they are, and what thermal pads should I use? I tried to find out if they are using thermal pads by myself, but i couldn't find any info in that regard.
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My 3080ti FE was running quite loud because mem temps were high (stock pads on FE are garbage). So I've replaced them with gelid extremes and repasted the core with Arctic mx-4. Now the mem temps seem to be better, but the core is noticeably worse, and at one point during time spy benchmark it reached 82C (before it reached 70-75). I disassembled the card again and added a bit of paste but it was making contact with the cooler (picture). Should I be worried? What can be causing this and what can I do to fix it?
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So my laptop is having problems with heat in the 3d mark. I reach temps as high as 102c. I think I know what the issue is, but I would like to see what everyone else thinks. Context: I have repasted the laptop with some Coolermaster thermal paste, but the thing I did not do is replace the thermal pads, and I am pretty sure this is the problem since they may not be compressing. My thermals are not stable on my CPU, but for my GPU, they seem fine (max temp 80c) I plan on replacing the thermal paste and pads (Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut and K5-Pro )
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Recently I got a used RTX 2060 Super. I've been having an issue where when playing a game (or getting off of a game in the case of metro exodus) My screen turns black and my gpu fans get loud. I Have to turn my pc off to fix it. The gpus dye isn't getting too hot, since It maxes out around 75c and the max temp before a shut down is 85c. I also replaced the termal paste after the first time. I'm thinking the memory may be getting too hot because the thermal pads on the memory don't cover them entirely. I haven't measured the memory's temps though, so I'm not exactly sure.
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I'm prototyping a smart dashcam that uses a phone motherboard. Would thermal paste/adhesive or a thermal pad be better solution considering the inadequate mounting pressure. It'll only be in a 3d printed case that holds the heatsink to the logic board.
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I'm going to be replacing the two fans in my laptop (MSI GP75 Leopard) and repasting both the CPU and GPU. I've been having thermal problems and one of the fans is rattling, even after cleaning. Already got the fans picked out, but I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for the best thermal paste to get that works on the CPU and GPU? Thanks!
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I have a GTX 780TI WINDFORCE edition in my PC. It has a three fan style cooling solution. I always assumed that three fan blowers were inherently quiet because they have so much cooling, but when getting over 65° Celsius, it starts to get pretty loud. Does anyone know why? Is the 780TI just loud by nature, or could it but something else? Also to clarify, I have MX-4 thermal paste on it and I'm unsure how quality the termal pads are because they were put on by someone else before the card was sold to me.
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