Thermal pads

KotOr · November 24, 2019

I have GTX 1080Ti FTW3 .When i was changing thermal paste i notice some thermal pad are pretty dry. Little touch and they fell off. So all stores in my country sell Thermal grizzly or arctic pads. so i bought arctic and thermal grizzly 0.5-1-1.5 ,2. I borrow from work vernier calliper for rough reading. and all backplate are 2mm and all under front plate are 1.3mm (the corners) the middle where is contact is 1.2mm. and here is my problem 1mm arent good enough. But if i use 1.5 iam little bit F***, because Arctic and grizzly pads are damn hard. They don´t compress lower and if i use them on all component after assembly GPU is bend. Those pad above front plate are 1.5mm, but if i use 1.5 arctic gpu is bend again. so i put Under all 1mm above 1mm+0.5 and back 1.5mm. But thanks to ICX all sensors show better temps. i remove stock fans and put 2x 140mm on gpu. and i notice better temps 10-13c on GPU and 10-15c on other component. max GPU 55c , mem, power 30-40, only power4 is little bit higher 45 but sensor is on bak side.

So can sombody pls recommend some soft thermal pads??

and because i remove stock fans i bought fan splitter so i could use 2x normal fans on GPU connector so i could use afterburner for control. But what i dont understand origo fan is 12V 0.55A. 3000RPM now i have 2x 12v 0.14A 1500RPM and at 50% fan speed i have 1500rpm so max. and if i use 80% nothing happend. I thought that fans are controled thru voltage exampl 50% fan = 7V and 100%=12V but if my fans going at max with 50%. Should i worry about fans or GPU connector??

thank you and sorry for my english