AiO or change thermal pads and paste

[StormBreakes]

I have a asus strix 3080 ti oc that running on heavy load at 70-75 degrees.

 

Should i change thermal pads and paste or buy a Alphacool Eiswolf 2 AIO - 360mm RTX 3090/3080 with Backplate ?

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Just change the thermal paste and do an undervolt of the gpu core, compensate by overclocking vram if vram is not overheating (95c+)

[bmx6454]

41 minutes ago, StormBreakes said:

I have a asus strix 3080 ti oc that running on heavy load at 70-75 degrees.

 

Should i change thermal pads and paste or buy a Alphacool Eiswolf 2 AIO - 360mm RTX 3090/3080 with Backplate ?

those temps are fine, what's the issue?

[StormBreakes]

3 hours ago, bmx6454 said:

those temps are fine, what's the issue?

88 c on vram

[bmx6454]

20 minutes ago, StormBreakes said:

88 c on vram

that's still not bad imo, maybe water cooling will bring it down a bit, but i don't think 88c vram, 75c core will hurt the card long term.

[jwwagner25]

don't know why you would possibly need to change the thermal paste. i'm pretty sure the factory that put it together knows what they are doing. all you will accomplish is a great risk of making temps WORSE by breaking the 'factory seal', just for the tiny chance of a degree or two better cooling. the thermal paste has nothing to do with VRAM temps anyway. I would leave it alone.