New VRAM Thermal Pads

[jimbo4]

Hey all.

I just got a used rx 580 and nearly killed it. It was hot and loud, so I replaced the dried out paste and the clogged up, dusty pads. Booting into windows seemed fine, stuck on 3d mark and the fans went nuts, white artifacts all over. Quickly turned off and tore down the GPU again to find the paste hadn't even touched the cooler. I think that although the thermal pads I use (Gelid GP Extreme-pad, 1mm) are the same size, they seem to be a little harder so not compressing as much. I replaced with 0.5mm pads and they hardly touch the cooler. I spread a little paste on them to check contact and it was poor, if any at all.

I'm now looking at a choice between the blue arctic pads and thermal grizzly minus pads. But the question is, are they definitely softer than GC extremes? Know any pads that are like 0.8? (choices are limited in the UK)

 

thanks in advance

[Zando_]

You should always use the same thickness pads as the stock one (1mm and .5mm on my Radeon VII), cut to reasonably match so they don't keep the cooler from seating on the GPU correctly. 

I have arctic pads, they're squishy enough to work fine so long as you cut with decent precision. Perform really well too. 

[jimbo4]

I did, I had 1mm and 0.5mm on hand and the original pads were 1mm. original pads were just far squishier.

[Mick Naughty]

Blue pads are pretty soft but like like a stock green nvidia pad. But cheap enough to give it a try.