How to Replace Thermal Pads on Any GPU!

Used the pad replacement on the RTX 3080 Master to build a quick guide on the process for replacing thermal pads on any gpu.
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[@RedPandaMining]

dude awesome stuff thanks for the call out! serpentxsf and I had the same issues on our gigabyte eagle and gaming oc 3080. Gonna order a flash router soon!

[@redpenguinmining9216]

I'm 100% you can get more mh/s if you drop the power limit to 85%-90% from the get to, right now you dropped the temperature but you're still outputting a ton of heat which is hard for your GPU to manage, if you reduce the power limit just a bit you will be able to get higher memory clocks before crashing because your overall heat output will be lower to start with.

[@BaaaChikaWaWa]

❤️

[@Frosty2211]

We love you Red Panda!

[@willskate032]

Instead of the metal tool, use the plastic spudgers in the ifixit kit when working close to the board to avoid/minimize possible damages

[@cardinaldriver]

For ESD purposes also. Plus I dont know how easy those tiny resistors around the IHS is to pop off but don't want to find out. Pretty sure that little boo boo would void a warranty or two. I would guess the spudging tool would "give" while a metal object would pop it clean off into regions unknown. I use fancy toothpicks and a jeweler's glass for cleaning around tiny components.

[@nightwintertooth9502]

I went from 71 to 61 on all my cards by doing this....three months before this came out. But I appreciate you bringing this knowledge forward to the community. Learning how to take care of your hardware is super important.

[@Doozy95]

How many cards?

[@nightwintertooth9502]

@@Doozy95 after my server power supply upgrade I'm up to nine

[@Doozy95]

@@nightwintertooth9502 and you've done this thermal pad mod to all cards and all dropped 10°c from previous highs?

[@Doozy95]

@@nightwintertooth9502 I'm only asking cause I have a shitty gigabyte that I'm about to pad mod and hope I can fix it. Cause it's running 10°c hotter than any of my other cards.

[@nightwintertooth9502]

@@Doozy95 When you do, I would recommend ARCTIC pads, they're the ones I use. Grab a digital measuring clamp and measure the thickness before you start pulling them off. I needed 0.5mm for my power amp chipset (because I've got older dual PCIe 4x2x2 (8x2) cards that need one), 1mm for underneath my mosfet plate, 1mm for my vram heatsink, and 2mm for my backplate. Take photos, record positions before removing components, be very very careful inside of your GPU. I would also recommend 99.7% scientific grade rubbing alcohol and arctic silver 5 thermal grease, as well as an m.2/m.3 gpu screw kit from eBay. I invested a good $200 in high quality tooling and materials before I started, and the output is grand. It dropped me from high 70s, to mid 60s on the kawpow algorithm, which is more intense than ethash by default, with my highest temp recorded on a refurbished card at 68, completely eliminating long-term thermal runaway. One of my cards WAS a gigabyte. I flipped it for another r9-390x, actually. They do suck, and under heavy thermal load, the backplate warps. I ran into this issue long-term with an AMD RX580 gigabyte, and a GTX1080 gigabyte, both backplates warped, and they began overheating again. Once that happens, its a repeat disassembly and rebending process that far outweighs keeping the card around and I would not recommend Gigabyte, even with a modded thermal pad, the build quality sucks in general because of the backplate warping issue. The only thing seriously worth getting a gigabyte over, is if you're actually using them to game, and want to put a nonref ekwb on them, water cooled, which eliminates the need to use their shitty backplate, fan shrouds or cooling hardware anyhow. MSI and ASUS are the best for air cooling for miners. Followed by Gigabyte, then EVGA at the top in performance when watercooling for gamers. Water cooling as a miner is usually really impractical because maintenance on a custom loop is a pita in a mining rig. (and maintenance is recommended once a month) Even with disconnect sockets on your PETG, its still a pain. I can get low 60s with water cooling, and I have with a soft PETG+EKWB+Bitspower+D5 high flow test, but its not even worth the price tag because of the maintenance just to drop to 57 degrees while mining and have all that humidity venting into your ambient. You need basically a radiator wall and a huge fan array to dissipate the amount of heat coming off of 9-12 cards efficiently. I stacked three XSPC 380mm rads to do that task, hated it because it was turning my shed into tropical paradise, ended up putting the fan shrouds back on. If you seriously want to try it out, though, you can get avg. 62 on kawpow by having the cards and risers in STE mineral oil in a filtered/circulating fish tank. No fan shrouds needed and you don't have to give a shit about shitty backplates, shrouds, or thermal pads at all. Just keeping a fish tank filter clean and preventing crystalization of the mineral oil on components. No more than 5 cards at a time per tank, or the accumulated heat wil make the oil boil at its low boiling point, which is bad, because its conductive when it boils. I got avg. 62 with a 5 card test in a fish tank full of STE, and its cheaper than watercooling. The cards I find on ebay with working PCB whose fan shrouds can't be rescued get dumped in my fish tank.

[@PJxpanterx]

Another tip I learned over the years, before you take apart anything, take pictures of everything! That could save you a massive headache, it´s really easy to forget what goes where....

[@Stephan5916]

I figured this.

[@AndreyParshin]

Or even better record a video or a timelapse ;)

[@rafaelribeiro5771]

I replaced the Thermalpads on my 3080 Gaming OC, the Memory Junction temperature went from 110c to 80c. I used the Thermalpad Thermalright 2mm on both sides and kryonaut on the GPU.

[@LumenEtTempus]

2mm on both front an back? And all the small pads on the front around the heatsink? Can you confirm that please, I have to order out of country so I wanna do it right the first try. Thx!

[@rafaelribeiro5771]

@@LumenEtTempus 2mm front and back for GDDR6x only.

[@LumenEtTempus]

@@rafaelribeiro5771 Thanks

[@markw496]

I bought this and Frosty Ice Cube Plus Thermal Pad - 12.8 W/mK from Amazon. Both have the same temps, but at 40% of the price of thermal rights.

[@stonmyk]

how many packs did you use bro?

[@DantalionVR]

Insane how the Gelid 3mm thermalpads seem to be completely sold out all over Europe

[@tomdavidson115]

I am not a newbie when it comes to all things PC. You're very knowledgeable. I learned some things. Awesome... You have a gift for teaching. Thank you kind sir.

[@gameface6091]

You are awesome. Love that I'm getting a thermal pad replacement guide on a mining youtube channel. I don't personally need the instructions, but I can only imagine that someone who gets into mining and has possibly a dozen or several dozen GPUs but is not experienced technically would find this extremely useful. Too bad that a high end RTX 3080 can't get that GDDR6X past +1000. Big time bummer on that.

[@Goldstar1337]

Absolutely no problem doing upwards to +1300 mem, i am doing 0.787mV undervolt at 990 MHz, 46% PL, 100.9 MH/s @ 155watts :D

[@thenecromancer6564]

The music reminds me of spa I go to. So relaxing

[@BDOGreatSaiyanMan]

Seems all manufacturers use EXTREMELY poor quality thermal pads for the 3080's. I did my Gigabyte 3080 Gaming OC, and junction temps whilst mining dropped from 104c to 84c without fans, 74c with fans at 100%.. +1050 to the memory OC.

[@cync9591]

When measuring the used pads, is it ok to error on the side of caution, and use a pad .5mm larger? Similarly, is it even bad in general, to use pads .5mm thicker than the stock ones? Thanks great vid!

[@mitsoskouk1049]

i wouldl like to ask a dummy question. Can we use instead of pads, theralpaste all over the place with better results??

[@computercomputer8922]

I recommend trying TG-PP-10 thermal putty or K5 Pro instead of thermal pads. I've had good results with both (K5 Pro is more "gooey" than the TG-PP-10)

[@SonofaTech]

Where can you get the putty?

[@computercomputer8922]

@@SonofaTech You can get the TG-PP-10 from Digikey and the K5 Pro from Ebay

[@donksx]

Thanks been researching this

[@CRSolarice]

...I never cared much for the blue pads, they don't seem to have any that have very good W/mk but the ones you put in the desc were the best I've seen at 6w/mk, which isn't that great. Right next to them there was a listing for some grey thermalright pads that were 12.8 W/mk for a dollar more, they looked real good...

[@markw496]

I know this is an old comment, but for anyone reading, check this brand out on Amazon. It's at 40% of the price of most of the others: Frosty Ice Cube Plus Thermal Pad - 12.8 W/mK. I dropped my temps to almost an identical amount and its the dark gray color.

[@sn3akydna314]

Your one hell of a guy, not to call out other KZbinrs in the genre of mining but a lot of those guys just show us what they have and how cool it is, your very noob friendly and give great tutorials

[@icawn]

just use a steel straight edge between components to determine which is highest and lowest and what pad thicknesses would be appropriate for even coverage.

[@thequietkiwi]

Great idea, thanks.

[@alaskacpu]

When should you replace them - 1 year - every year ? Or when the GPU starts getting hotter than normal. Thanks

[@Efkas]

Depends on the situation. For example, I got Gigabyte 3080 Gaming OC that requires thermal pad change after 3 weeks, some people don't change thermal pads for 5 years and feel good. So if you're experiencing some problems with temperatures it might be a sign that you should to try to replace one.

[@charlesblack1972]

@@Efkas is that due to the manufacturer using poor pads that needed to be replaced quickly or are you saying that card will need replacements that often even with replacement pads

[@Efkas]

@@charlesblack1972 it's due to fact that gigabyte used extremely bad t pads in gaming oc, eagle and vision cards. Under load it starts to throttle and then turns off.

[@cardinaldriver]

I was always wondering. Say you need 2mm thick pads but you have 1mm or 0.5mm material, can you "stack" pads to achieve the proper thickness or does this compromise heat continuity? Thanks for the great video. Ive done this with RAM modules where I had to de-skirt then eventually re-skirt a stick to make room for a tower style cpu cooler, worked great.

[@cardinaldriver]

@Fifty Dinar I was thinking about the extra layers of adhesive insulating the heat from passing on to one another causing inefficiencies. If air is the issue, wouldn't a couple pin holes through the pads work? Sorry for looking a gift horse in the mouth. 😬 thanks again.

[@josegarcia2014]

Can you post an update now that HWinfo has an update that let's you see VRam junction temp? My FE 3090 runs about 106*c with an 800mhz memory overclock

[@dcquadrant]

I’m getting 96-100c on my 3080 aorus master with stock thermal pads

[@josegarcia2014]

@@dcquadrant what settings do you have on the memory overclock?

[@dcquadrant]

@@josegarcia2014 just to list it all. I got, PWR: 67 CORE CLOCK: -150 MEMORY: +900 FAN: 100

[@connordd2]

@@dcquadrant Watch out for running the fans at 100%

[@TripleVR]

Too hot bro. Everyone in the comments section is running too hot.

[@joyoffilming9500]

Great instruction. BTW, did you watch the VRAM T-junction temp? This is the one temp that should bother all of us with those powerfull Nvidia cards most.Unfortunately, this temperature is most often 10-15 degrees centigrades higher than the GPU temp. Most likely, your new thermal pads will have solved that issue.

[@Consolethumbs]

Should I be worried if I’m just gaming with the card just picked up a 3080 master

[@nereushixon]

hey buddy...thanks for the video. Quick question. I have the same Aorus Master RTX 3080. Are you sure that at the backplate, the size over the core is 2mm ? The stock one was 1mm.

[@JamesP69]

Thank you so much mate, appreciated!

[@TurtleFootMining]

I’ll know I need this how to down the line thank you for the education my friend 😇🚀😇

[@HypoCT]

You don't need to clean it with iso alcohol before replacing the pads?

[@Turk_]

Mine had a 4th cable at the top and I couldn't get it to access the back plate so I just swapped out the PCB pads and it runs great now. Would not recommend trying to take it apart if you have big sausage fingers

[@KingOfCha0z]

Hi. I have a question. ¿Do you have to paste the pads on the plates or directly on the parts of the gpu?, I am very new with this, I have changed paste on CPU but never on GPU's never heard of thermal pads until I watched your video

[@totalbullion5882]

Great timing!

[@edward4181]

Awesome worked perfect. Thanks for the video.

[@mraltoid19]

Thank you for the the video man, appreciated.

[@Bukovskyy]

What thickness thermal pad is placed on VRAM processors and what conductivity W/mK ( Sapphire Nitro+ RX 480 8GB ) ? I don't put thermal paste on the main GPU.

[@lostwarhead]

1.25 speed is where it's at fam

[@ziyaadumar6191]

Did you replaced a thermal pad on the gpu chipset or

[@natedagreat6704]

If I open up my gpu do I have to replace the thermal paste cause I had just changed it like a few days ago

[@dingusmaximus1816]

Anyway I can get some assistance. I have this same exact card but I put a bykski waterblock on it. The temps are terrible, and directions are bad.

[@Mantis_Shrimp99]

Should I go for the 6W/kM or 12.8W/kM for a oem 1080ti blower card????

[@JozieKS]

What brand would you recommend?

[@daineball]

HOLY what a beast ahahahaha GPUs are so big now its great.

[@fruchu]

Should I just place the pads on the memore without any kind of adhesive/glue ? Im afraid they will slide over when I screw back the backplate

[@lewisstevens1]

How do you deal with issues with manufacturers saying that warranty is void due to being opened?

[@SonofaTech]

At this time it depends on your use case. RMA would be preferred if you could actually get the card. There is right to repair in US but it’s hard to fight sometimes.

[@lewisstevens1]

@@SonofaTech Yeah, It's a shame they can't all just be required to sell them with decent thermal pads, or at least be allowed to take the card apart and do it yourselves, I know MSI has forbidden me from doing anything to the card, including water cooling or changing thermal pads so I have just been trying to get it sent back, but most of the time I just am left without a card and it's hard to prove its an issue as you keep getting "Core temps are fine, so there is nothing wrong with the card"

[@rwbimbie5854]

woohoo, 2 HowTooo in one day? Just did a Pads & Paste on the ole 270x. Crunchy OG paste _no bueno_ Seeing air between sink & ram on 1030.. looks like I'm gonna be doin some more Pad N Paste. Oddly, they got the vrms with Sink, but not the mem

[@65EKS65]

Would anyone more educated help me guess what might have gone wrong if I can't fix my problem with repaste. I changed pads and paste (cleaned with Akasa TIM Wipes and used Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut paste) and the memory temps got lower roughly 10° so pad changes worked, but when I went to gaming the core temps were roughly 10° higher than before! Did I use too little paste or is there any other possibilities? I'm going to repaste with thicker layer and see how it goes, but if it doesn't help I don't know what else might have be the problem.

[@sotiriskitsos]

If i change thermal pads in my rtx 2080 super windforce oc the fans will go 100% to games all time?

[@Soggy-Soy-Toy]

I’m looking to add thermal pads to the back of my vram…. But my card has the clear plastic film on the back plate. Do I need to cut the film the size of the thermal pads in the backplate? There seems to be nothing online about it

[@julianderejczyk5806]

bro, you did an amazing video. As I have watched the video you posted on changing the thermal pads on your Aorus I did the same thing with my Gigabyte 3080 Gaming OC. Nevertheless, now the cards show stable MH/s, but the Autofan option on HiveOS isn’t working, do you have the same issue? and the backplate is extremely hot....

[@هيثمالغامدي-ن6ف]

i need help please , i have gtx 1650 how do i know my thermal pad size ?

[@junaidfaiz]

Can i paste thermal pads on the outside plate ic's??

[@vercetti7795]

Great video. I'm in a position where i need to order everything from offline. No way to know the thicknesses before i open the card? i need to have one 2060 and one 3060ti. I can give more specific details if someone already knows the sizes?

[@ggzii]

mine doesnt throttle, am I lucky or is this something that develops

[@genos2719]

i have gigabyte aorus rtx 3070, same model with you, what were the sizes did you use? thanks!

[@elmaikitofficial]

Freaking amazing dude !

[@TheAmangkurat]

can i double the thermal pad if the thickness not reach?

[@TheAmangkurat]

please answer

[@mattobrien5578]

How did you get those cables off? I couldn't.

[@ThatOneScienceGuy]

How often do thermal pads need to be replaced? Someone told me that on ALL MSI cards the pads need to be replaced immediately before you even use them for mining. Is this true? Because my Ventus 3x and Gaming X Trio seems to be staying pretty cool and I haven't seen any thermal throttling from them....

[@BEU203]

Check the memory temperatures with Gpuz or hwinfo

[@Evelisk]

Could you use extra thermal pads to try and muffle coil whine?

[@AutodidactEngineer]

Do these thermal pads hold small heatsinks?? I have a gtx 750 and would like to add some small heatsinks on top of the memory modules so do these blue pads have any sticktivity to them?

[@cowneloalvaroids2387]

can i use 1.5mm instead of 1.2mm i cant find 1.2mm?

[@dhLotan]

You say replacing thermal pads but I didn't see you remove anything in the whole video. Especially removal of thermal pads over say, the memory module. I'm so lost ☹️

[@R3TR0J4N]

noticed i had throttling even tho gpu is low temp so i just assume its my vram had thermal probs

[@luciariley6454]

Could this used on the outside of a camera to help when shooting high resolution? 🧐

[@kintamasis]

u forgot to mention aproximetly how often need replace pads !? once a year once an month?

[@marksmith6259]

Thermal pads out of stock, hahaha. sounds typical of anything GPU atm.

[@markw496]

Here is the secret stock: Frosty Ice Cube Plus Thermal Pad - 12.8 W/mK. Excellent pricing too!

[@DrZeko]

What size (1mm, 2mm, 3mm?) of thermo pads should I buy fot Gigabyte rtx 3060? Thanks!

[@alexparkinson6335]

no wonder my gpu is freaking hot, i forgot about the backplates thermal pad

[@happyliferay]

I wouldn’t do this because this void the warranty, I use two 120 mm fans directly blowing on the backplate of each card, it actually does a good job lowering 6-10 degrees Celsius

[@thequietkiwi]

How can you fit all those fans in an 8 card mining rig????

[@thierrythierry]

Hi, I have a question : how many millimetres for the pad thermal memory sapphire pulse RX 5700 XT please ? Thanhs you

[@fawzisandouqah]

Do you know the thickness of the thermal pads for: Gigabyte rtx 3070 oc Asus tuf rtx 3070 oc Palit rtx 3070 oc Gigabyte Rtx rtx 3060 rev 1.0 Would appreciate it

[@valentin_danev]

Hi Son of a Tech, You are an absolute legend sir. I have a bunch of 6700xt two of them are gigabyte eagle and I have to run them on 90-100% fan as they are generally 20 degrees hotter on the memory compared to my MSI mech and Asus duals. I cant wait to get my pads and change them.

[@GoMArkkrAM]

Sapphire pulse rx 7600 anyone has the back plate / board scheme to apply it? (And how thick is is )

[@zackw4941]

Nice work. I have a 3090 FE that I bought for gaming and decided to try and mine a bit in the PC's down time. I had to RMA for a bad fan and am waiting for it back, so I can't test yet. I learned about these hot memory issues after sending it out, but it tracks with some of the card's slightly odd behavior. I don't really want to take it apart, but I considered applying heatsink(s) to the backing plate. Do you have any suggestions on that? It looks like all the thermal tapes are pretty useless and I didn't want to make permanent mods to the card..

[@Tracker5111]

Nothing can fix it if a thermal pad isn't touching the memory...nothing is drawing away the heat.

[@zackw4941]

@@Tracker5111 This was a pretty old post! I did try placing heatsinks on the back of the card first, but it didn't really do anything. Later, I did replace all the thermal pads. I think with Tgernalright or something like that? I used all 1.5mm pads per a KZbin video guide. That netted very good results. The stock pads were all touching, but appeared to be made out goat cheese. They obviously didn't conduct very well. Having observed the verying thickness of the stock pads, I thought I could do even better. So I went in again and changed the gpu side memory pads to 2mm. This turned out to be too thick and pushed the gpu away from the heatsink. Wouldn't even boot! Went back in a 3rd time and put all the memory back to 1.5mm. I also used some 0.5mm on the taller vrms. My final result was no better than the first try, but maybe the power delivery circuits are happier. Can't measure them, so no idea.

[@mikemolenaar8380]

Anyone know of the aorus 6800xt has the same problem as the 3080s

[@dario0067able]

hello I have the same gpu and I have the same problem of thelmal pads I already saw your video but I see that in it the links that you put only the 200mm pads my question is you only used 1mm pads to replace the ones that the gpu had?

[@Goldstar1337]

0,5mm on caps, 2mm on the chips, 3mm on the back :)

[@dario0067able]

@@Goldstar1337 thankyou

[@stevenross-watt8640]

The memory module will probably be 0.5mm on the cooler side not back of pcb.

[@naturesix8061]

I have been doing Power limit of 75-80 and memory clock at 1250 on my 3080, working at 85/mhs about to repaste and see what changes.

[@adriandasilva2968]

Power limit 62%, core clock -150, +1000 memory. 97mh/s

[@nozemi95]

Can you make a list of what sizes you needed for this specific card? My card has significantly improved the memory temps, but "GPU Hot Spot Temperature" is stable around 104-107C under a bit of load, so I'm assuming my pads might not be appropriately sized.

[@cardinaldriver]

GPU hot spots are on the graphics chip itself. You would be changing hs compound, not thermal pads on memory ICs. Kryonaut is a miracle worker.

[@bjrn-toremediaa3344]

@@cardinaldriver no, my thermal pads were wrong. I bought some other pads and the cooler is now touching the DIE properly.

[@NorthsideChamps16]

@@bjrn-toremediaa3344 did you end up using 1.5mm pads? I think 2mm for the VRAM is too thick.

[@nozemi8069]

@@NorthsideChamps16 I don’t remember, but you can try 1.5mm, then run some benchmarking or stress test while monitoring the temps

[@linuxtweeker]

3:40 Tatoo GOW

[@lukewaters182]

Just had to order pads for my 3080 xtreme same thermal throttling issues, will I need to also replace thermal paste on the chip even though its vram that's overheating?

[@SonofaTech]

Yes paste must be re applied as shown

[@googleuser7202]

**Q* Would it better OR make any sense to tighten the screws again, as some pads and/or thermal paste may need it after 30min or so???

[@ariefliem1777]

This mean warranty void right?

[@SonofaTech]

Right to repair. Up to you. You a scared? Lol

[@Put33k]

does this process cause the product warranty to be lost?

[@someguyyoudontknow263]

most likely. but you have another $900 from mining bitcoin so no worries.

[@dennisrosenberg4157]

hi, does anyone here have any idea what kind of thermal pads size it is at gigabyte 3060 eagle?

[@flydrones]

nobody shows the memory junction temp ! ? all FE runs over 100C° at the mining process with 60-65 Power throttle

[@beeedril_7991]

Evil Linus

[@andresl349]

I have the same issue with my aorus master 3080. Thanks for the video but I am going to rma it

[@SonofaTech]

Careful they aren’t sending em back. Just refunding. Also if it’s another gigabyte it won’t help. Such a bummer right now lol

[@dario0067able]

Hello, could you tell me the size of the thermal pads to use for the memories and for the backplate?

[@alexandruilea915]

@@dario0067able depends on the card, if it's the one on the video just rewatch the video.

[@RealLagu]

I dont even bother changing the thermal pads on my aorus xtreme, because I am going to sell it anyways when 3080ti is released

[@pav1u]

Hey there, so what about all thickness ? Front vram 2mm, back 2.5mm/3mm, i wanted to know for sure the other small areas thickness, if anyone could help i would appreciate! Gigabyte Eagle rtx 3080

[@salamtak0gingi]

very helpfull video :D

[@TechyRodsWire]

Great video

[@SonofaTech]

Thanks man just ran 3dmark much better results now

[@slayer666micgaming7]

Is 92/94c a good memory temp ?

[@gregorboxer2463]

It depends. What gpu

[@slayer666micgaming7]

@@gregorboxer2463 rtx 3080

[@MarkOfBitcoin]

If you don't have the exact thickness required, like if you need 2mm but all you have is 1mm pad... Can you layer them? As in put two layers on top of each other?

[@SonofaTech]

Yes you can. It doesn’t always workout though

[@MarkOfBitcoin]

@@SonofaTech Thanks for the reply, man! In what way doesn't it work out? The two pads aren't as conductive as the correct thickness... Or... ?

[@andrewsamoraj4091]

You didn't show the most important piece: Memory Junction Temperature AFTER installing thermal pads....what are you running at now? 100C+ ?

[@Goldstar1337]

Drops it about 23-25c :)

[@DantalionVR]

If you use high quality thermal pads (12 w/mk+) you'll see a huge drop in temperatures. The stock Gigabyte thermalpads are like 1-3 wm/k at best and leak oil everywhere. Definitely worth replacing. Keep in mind that different RTX 3080 models are going to need different thermal pad sizes.

[@Goldstar1337]

@@DantalionVR indeed, both my 3080's are from Gigabyte and both were drenched with Oil on and around the original pads, cant understand why they had to use the cheapest shit they could find and slap in on the card

[@GP-qb9hi]

@@Goldstar1337 "It's business"

[@max11111able]

@@Goldstar1337 BS

[@ThatOneScienceGuy]

Why have miners not constructed a spreadsheet or google doc with a list of GPU models and their thermal pad thicknesses? Has nobody done such a thing? I have a mix of cards and can't seem to find anyone online who can tell me the pad thickness.

[@wali8976]

What were you mem junction temperatures before and after?

[@dcquadrant]

I have this exact same card, getting 96-100 degrees with my memory at +900

[@wali8976]

@@dcquadranthave you faced any issues with stability or any weirdness with your GPU? I don't put any memory overclocks due to the high Temps.

[@dcquadrant]

@@wali8976 I have zero stability issues

[@titinowj4781]

I’ve the same card and in rdr2 ultra settings 1080p, 94º for mem jonction, automaticly increase fan speed, it’s bad

[@Bobby_Strange]

My MSI Ventus 3x has 106F memory regardless of speed causing +350mhz max stability. Time to fix!

[@cidsapient7154]

right up my alley this week im about to do the pads on 2 5600xts and a 5700 possibly a 3rd 5600xt, ill see when it gets here also big tip for many ppl: i throw away all plastic backplates, plastic is an insulator

[@StylinRed]

I didn't think I'd need different sized pads 😭

[@yochiranwhatsup6527]

For real ?

[@MonkeFlip2000]

You can just cut them

[@ATADSP]

I just did this, I went from 82 mh/s peaking at around 104 C to 92 mh/s peaking at around 88 C. I don't understand why manufacturers wont just use better thermal pads, but at least its not super difficult to replace them. Your video was invaluable in getting all the stuff I needed to do the job.

[@thequietkiwi]

If they make their cards indestructible, we won't be able to kill them :)

[@scarysunburns7733]

Easy. Put on bad thermal pads, less GPU lifespan, more sales

[@celeriumlerium8266]

@@scarysunburns7733 It's actually the other way around. Better thermal pads, like paste, degrade much faster than the lower performance variants, so assuming someone is going to chuck it into a hotbox and never maintain the card, the longer lasting thermal pads are a more realistic choice than the higher performing ones. Companies don't know the end use of the card, so this is the safest option.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@celeriumlerium8266 And then this crap falls apart, leaks, and makes a perfectly adequate cooling solution into a hotbox.

[@Mj-ez7vy]

Been asking around and keep getting mixed answers, how important is it that the thickness of thermal pads are correct? I'm trying to look for the right stuff to buy for my graphics card since its had some crazy hotspot temps (as high as 105C sometimes), but according to some documentation I found, my card requires about 6 different size pads and I'm struggling to find some of the right sizes. I've seen some people say that the size and even the "squishiness" needs to be the same, but some people say it's fine as long as it's within 0.2mm or so. I've also heard some people say to use thermal putty if you can't find the right size, then others say that it's a terrible idea and you should just use pads. Just getting mixed signals from all over so I'm trying to figure out what to do lol

[@tonycruz3840]

Glad you could fix it. just ordered some pads myself. keep up the good work!

[@chrinaldi]

Thanks for the general PSA! This is very useful for general use, gaming, and mining. Never knew that Gigabyte cards had that poor cooling at GDDR6X memory.

[@clearlight293]

Latest HWiNFO v6.42 added the memory junction temp sensor for the 3080 and 3090. Wonder what your VRAM temps are now at different OC values.