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Thue500
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Hi, I have been using a Kraken G10 on my Msi R9 390 GPU, but want to go back to my air cooler. But the thermal pads you get with the cooler is a bit broken and I don't know how bad I need them. With the Kraken G10, I was stupid enough to not get any thermal pads or cooling sink. But after 1.5 years there have still not been any problem with the card. So I was wondering if I went back to the air cooler would really need the thermal pads or can I go a month playing without them?

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1 minute ago, Thue500 said:

Hi, I have been using a Kraken G10 on my Msi R9 390 GPU, but want to go back to my air cooler. But the thermal pads you get with the cooler is a bit broken and I don't know how bad I need them. With the Kraken G10, I was stupid enough to not get any thermal pads or cooling sink. But after 1.5 years there have still not been any problem with the card. So I was wondering if I went back to the air cooler would really need the thermal pads or can I go a month playing without them?

put thermal adhesive strips on the VRMs and VRAMs and put small copper or aluminium heatsinks on there. That wil lcost you like 20€ on amazon.de

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The vram would be ok but everything could suffer. Just get some pads. Only a few bucks and I'm sure you can wait 2-4 days. 

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3 hours ago, Tiwaz said:

put thermal adhesive strips on the VRMs and VRAMs and put small copper or aluminium heatsinks on there. That wil lcost you like 20€ on amazon.de

I was thinking about getting the stock cooler on it.

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3 hours ago, Mick Naughty said:

The vram would be ok but everything could suffer. Just get some pads. Only a few bucks and I'm sure you can wait 2-4 days. 

Yeah your probably right but only gonna use it for 2-3 months max.

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Less than $20 on amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/ARCTIC-Thermal-Pad-145-1-0/dp/B00UYTTXSM/ref=sr_1_4?rps=1&ie=UTF8&qid=1496250092&sr=8-4&keywords=arctic+thermal+pads&refinements=p_85%3A2470955011

 

I had no idea what thickness I needed to get for putting the cooler back on my old 270X (previously it had a water cooler and Enzotech copper heatsinks on VRAM and voltage regulators).

 

Managed to trim down the voltage regulator heatsinks to fit with the stock cooler in place, but it currently has no thermal pads on the VRAM.

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