Please don't do this - AliExpress GPU Backplate Cooling

[@alexz1232]

GDDR modules distribute most of their heat into the PCB itself through the copper traces. It would make the most sense to test backplate coolers by looking at VRAM temp, especially with additional thermal pads bridging backplate and PCB.

[@DragonOfTheMortalKombat]

Thanks for telling, I have some old heat sinks and thermal pads that I'll attach at the back of PCB now.

[@seeibe]

Well, the amount of heat dissipated also depends on the thermal differential. When you go VRAM -> PCB -> thermal pads -> small backplate cooler, I suspect much less heat can be transferred than going VRAM -> thermal pads -> massive front cooler. So yeah, in theory more heat may be distributed into the PCB itself, in practice thanks to cooling I suspect more heat will be dissipated through the thermal pads on the front. But would be interesting to validate this.

[@onlyeyeno]

@@seeibe Yea, unless You have a 3090 which has half of it's VRAM on the back, in that case it just might ""work"". Then again if You have a 3090 I really don't think You should try to cool it by "strapping random scrap metal" onto it with with zip-ties :) Best regards.

[@z33thr33]

I set an old AM3 stock cooler on top of my 2080 TI with some thermal pads in addition to the normal cooling solution and got -6c average gains as shown in CPUID HWMONITOR without even replacing old pads yet. My solution, however, is the exact size of the hotspot on the backplate, not the size of half of the gpu like this thing in the video

[@MrBalrogos]

Yeah i got RX 6800 XT and i put thermal pads and cut plastic insulation from backplate and i use thermal pads on the side where vrm is :) and temps drops nicely

[@swagheel]

Don't worry! I don't have a powerful GPU enough to need a backplate 😅

[@First-Name_Last-Name]

Ain't needing a backplate if my gaming PC's depends on the CPU integrated graphics All I need is a $2 shady Aliexpress CPU cooler that comes with a -chinese spyware- software for the cooler ARGB control

[@sidewinder86ify]

Backplate is 99% for the looks, also the card runs cooler without any backplate at all.

[@Rayu25Demon]

Don't worry i Don't have a gpu 🤣

[@INFINITEShoobes]

Relatable

[@Romanianblackbirbrider]

😂😂😂😂

[@SmarterGaming]

It would have been fun to see you rig a regular 120mm case fan blowing directly on the back plate, maybe with a 3d printed bracket or even just some rubber spacers and see how that would have worked compared to the Aliexpress versions.

[@solenoidnull9542]

This is my system, and it's a massive improvement for me (over 10C drop)

[@rustler08]

@@solenoidnull9542 I don't for a second believe you dropped 10 degrees Celsius

[@Walhor]

That's what I did to my 3090. Bought a thermal pad and some alumium fins and slapped a 120 slim noctua fan ontop of it. about 10-12c in vram temps drop

[@DoctorX17]

Yeah, just adding extra airflow right on the backplate can make a big difference. It's all about moving cool air over it to get the heat out

[@hardergamer]

@@solenoidnull9542 Yep, I did the same, and now my gpu stays below 60c under full load.

[@bfbunny]

I think coolers like these are intended for use with cards like the rtx 3090 which have vram chips dissipating heat onto the backplate, but they are basically useless on other cards

[@bleedsblue0023]

I did this for my 3080ti. Kritical thermal pads and added some heat sinks on top of the memory. Got my gaming mem temp down 5 to 10C.

[@twood1130]

I used one on my 3090 and got far improved temps

[@granolafunk6192]

​@@bleedsblue0023 Same here. Easily my most regrettable purchase. Spent more money than my entire PC is worth and then had to rip the thing apart just to not throttle. I have been tempted to sell it but I worked so hard on it just to make it not throttle. And it still runs hot.

[@markh-vy1sl]

That's exactly was first thought. This is only for 3090. There is even a liquid cooled backplate cooler for 3090. The memory chips on the back were a huge problem for 3090 and they fixed it in 3090 Ti.

[@bfbunny]

​@@bleedsblue0023 Well, yeah, a 3080ti can benefit from such a cooler, but people have been reporting drops of mem temp from 100+ degrees to a little above 80 with a 3090.

[@puciohenzap891]

The second cooler: - Mom, can we have a Thermalright cooler? - We have a Thermalright at home! - Thermalright at home:

[@skryzskruzzle]

Attaching a heatsink to the backside of the PCB where my VRAM was allowed me to OC from +1000 to +1250 for benchmarking. Core temperature was still the same however, and once the heatsink at the back got heat saturated, +1250 would crash also.

[@BBWahoo]

Damn you heat saturation, damn you!!!!!!!

[@giaopx]

can you just add a fan to it?

[@skryzskruzzle]

@@giaopx Yeah I could, but from the limited testing I did it would just extend the time that I was able to run +1250 OC on VRAM, but it would still become unstable after long enough.

[@granolafunk6192]

I just rested a server CPU passive heatsink on the back of my 3080ti and got almost 5C off the memory temps. I was going to thermal paste it but ended up putting better thermal strips on it.

[@rustler08]

And this is why you don't waste money on silly solutions like that and instead just watercool when you want to push OC limits

[@MrUkkone]

These could be interesting with rtx 3090 which has memory on backplate side and gets toasty.

[@bgtubber]

3090 Ti doesn't have memory on the back of the card.

[@MrUkkone]

@@bgtubber oh ye fixed it then.

[@bgtubber]

@@MrUkkone 👍

[@Hoshino635]

true, those coolers are intended for rtx 3090, especially mining ones. gpu capped at 50% TDP and vram overclocked as high as possible. And they are not that expensive either. like the 2nd one is about 18 Euro in China

[@MrDenjaOne]

I got -10 degrees from mem temp on my 3090 during mining using the cooler #2.

[@falcie7743]

When I had a 3090 I did a DIY solution like this with a giant aluminum heatsink and an 80mm fan. It actually helped in my case, because I was thermal throttling due to memory temps, even after replacing thermal pads. At least I was able to keep the memory at about 95C instead of 112C.

[@B0BBYGAMER]

Yeah I did the same with pk3 95 to 75-80 and mine was on water 3090 backplate temps were no joke but mining was the reason lol

[@BrunoVilela1]

@@B0BBYGAMER Not only minig, try to use it for IA training and render, memory will hit the same 110c :(

[@hmmboost]

Yeah I wish he would have tested with the 3080/3090 because the backplate really helps the mem temps on those cards.

[@LordSaliss]

Same. I watercooled the GPU and found that backside memory temps were keeping everything throttled so had to add cooling to the back. I got a replacement back plate (so I had a spare) with a pair of RAM waterblocks that I thermal epoxy'ed to the new backplate. The waterblocks on the back really helped cool the memory temps by keeping them 25-30 degrees cooler.

[@gex581990]

My 3090 has 65c-70c mem temps and I even have the mem overclocked to 3090ti spec. I simply changed the pads to higher quality ones just a teeny bit thicker, put a Asus ROG 120mm fan (that has a amazing balance of airflow and pressure) onto the backplate pulling hot air out straight into my case’s rear exhaust fan. I was able to drop vram temps without even affecting the core temps negatively

[@CossackHD]

Would be interesting to see difference with just a 80mm fan placed on its side on top of the card, blowing along the backplate from power connectors in the direction of the IO plate. I'm pretty sure that would be about as good as the 50 EUR thing or perhaps better.

[@SilkMilkJilk]

Î would bet my money that your assumption is correct, the fan alone would be better^^

[@teardowndan5364]

Do the same thing but after removing the backplate. My bet is that no backplate will perform slightly better since the bare PCB has more surface area since you have have all of the SMD perimeters that lose airflow when you slap a backplate on, SMDs sink most of their heat into the PCB and skips the thermal pad resistance.

[@SlappySlapperman]

Used to do that all the time, would put plastic motherboard standoff's in the screw holes and set it right above the back of the GPU..

[@hectorj.romanp.]

I don't know about a backplate but for an HDD it works pretty well; mine dropped from 50 C to 40 C moving it from the bottom of the case to a middle bay where it gets the air of the front fan of the case.

[@mtx33]

@@teardowndan5364 Honestly I'm not sure about removing the backplate from gpu-s which using thermal pads between the board and backplate. The backplate functions as a heat spreader in those cases, without it you'll get bigger surface for sure, but you can get hotspots or even overheating chips (like vrm or memory).

[@dumdum93]

You should've tested with a 3090 because that's the only card in need of backplate cooling.

[@c99kfm]

This would have been a good use-case for the Maxsun MegaGamer which Gamer's Nexus did an episode on two weeks ago. Steve went a bit lyrical about how well it conducted heat to the back-plate, which should provide a "best-case scenario" for this type of cooling.

[@rata536]

That's the definition of Jank. Something I could see Linus and Alex doing, but definetly not something sold to public. Thank you for sharing these kind of (deservely) obscure products.

[@EvWvE_YT]

The most import to know with this kind of active heatsink on the back plate are RAM and VRM Temp change.

[@JJFX-]

Definitely a creative way to add a fan for the memory. Wouldn't be my first choice but I'm not going judge.... I'm using a flexible arm DC fan that I got at FRYS 15 years ago bolted to a $500 mobo.

[@themartinc123]

I think der8auer missed the mark on this one, a 400W GPU is going to hit the RAM and VRM much harder than the 270W class GPU

[@rustler08]

That's only applicable to cards that have those components on the back or have thermal paste which transfers the heat from them to the backplate.

[@Revener666]

Just get a little bit more airflow in the case if you have issues........ Or if you are going to use zip tids anyway, do what I did in my spare computer to cool a part of the motherboard that got hot and rebooted me. Hang a fan with zip ties for directed airflow, it does alot. :)

[@angrydragonslayer]

I tried compressed air and it did wonders

[@zalda_6086]

you could try this with a gpu that has memory on the back like the 3090

[@aahlala]

Could you test with a 3090? I'm wondering how effective it is on the memory temperatures.

[@countfrackula6707]

I had a 3090 that I cooled with a backplate addon. It def helped the memory temps. I took a large heatsink and used thermal adhesive to stick it on, combined with some thermal compound. It def helps if you have memory under the backplate.

[@kennethmei]

I used to use my 3090 for crypto mining when I was not using it. The back-mounted VRAM was constantly getting way too hot and it would hinder performance a lot and could not reach its normal hash rate. I installed a backplate cooling solution and it worked perfectly. In normal gaming applications though, it would have never gotten hot enough to warrant having a backplate cooler.

[@tourmaline07]

I did wonder if a 3090 would have been a better card to test with because of the hot gddr6x VRAM being back-mounted. These products seem to be a response to that , and probably useless for anything else tbh. Gave me a good laugh. Surely having your backplate running hot is a good thing!? means it's dissipating heat I'd have thought.

[@Anderson_LS]

Agree, it's for RTX3090 and not for gamers but for miners. You can find many videos from them with these types of cooling backplates.

[@Kommunisator]

This kind of cooling can lead to interesting problems. I built an ITX rig for a friend once where a 200mm top fan blew onto the back of the graphics card. The PC was always crashing when gaming, because the temp sensor of the GFX card was cooled too, and didn't spin up its fans. As a result, the GPU actually overheated, although the back of the card was cold to the touch ^^

[@jcgongavoe337]

Please test them on a 3090 or rear mounted VRAM card

[@jcgongavoe337]

Also aliexpress has better made coolers than these 2 shown in the video, but definitely more expensive

[@XMoldyMe]

There's no point. Even if you just put some thermo paste in there, it'll help + one 120 fan

[@jcgongavoe337]

@@XMoldyMe Ok then, how about Dell Alienware's 3090 🤔

[@granolafunk6192]

I swear nvidia either did this as planned obsolescence. Or they just don't care about the fact their cards throttle with the stock coolers, like an intel CPU.

[@KamilZGZ]

RTX 3090 would be perfect to test it, because of double side GDDR6X memory and temperatures like 90 - 100c from the backplate side.

[@maslascher]

Would be a good idea to put something between zip ties and cooling solution on top of backplate. Should help significantly with mounting pressure and that is important when it comes to heat transfer.

[@tonyferreira6792]

To be fair! I honestly really enjoyed the ""custom scrap diy"" look! Reminded me of han's millennium falcon

[@tobiasdubiak4747]

You should test mounting a fan directly on the backplate. I guess that would be more efficient. And you can use zip-ties to get the same professional look.

[@cfodderferret]

Clearly rubber bands are the preferred fan mounting solution. Must be for noise damping or something.

[@jesperdalsgaard5164]

Please test a 120mm fan blowing down on the backplate - i did the thermalpad mod on my reference 6900xt and did see 6c lower gpu temp

[@XMoldyMe]

If you don't have water cooling on the CPU, it will take more heat to the GPU

[@bleedsblue0023]

What if you only add pads to the memory and the GPU doesn't touch the backplate

[@jesperdalsgaard5164]

@@XMoldyMe that might be true - personally I have a AIO on the cpu

[@dreyga2]

you need some holes for the fan to be effective. You want to blow away the heat trapped under the backplate, not to cool the backplate.

[@XMoldyMe]

@@dreyga2 Nope, heat is transferred to the backplate. That's the point, all you need is a fan to take the heat away. Sometimes it's there to help prevent the most extreme GPU sag and be more protected from dust and static.

[@LawrenceTimme]

When you're mining on 3080 or 3090 these are the difference between stock memory throttle and running +1000 memory. Made a big difference to roi.

[@sykoteddy]

Damn, this is like a comedy episode. You obviously didn't do anything wrong or bad. I really salute you for buying and checking out these so called products. I know not everyone is as handy, but I would rather go and buy the copper sheets myself and do something with. Regarding the second product, I would so much rather have it unpainted than that shitty "paint job", it hurts even calling it a "paint job", heck, even a toddler would do it better. In my opinion copper is really awesome looking and I could really imagine having a complete water loop with only copper and brass parts. It would look sick as hell!

[@fracturedlife1393]

I love stupid cooling "if you have any standards..." During the GPU Apocalypse daughter wanted a PC so she's running an old GTX980 with an AMD copper slug CPU COOLER strapped on. Sometimes standards got to drop LMAO. It's still running now, lifesaver at the the time.

[@JJFX-]

Recently I took apart an old PNY GTS 460 that was collecting dust. I realized the heatsink they used is just an old Intel CPU cooler that looks like it had the sides chopped off with an angle grinder so it fit under the shroud.

[@Voyajer.]

It's always a shame when an expensive GPU with a metal backplate doesn't even have thermal pads to make use of it. (looking at you Powercolor Red Devil 7900xtx)

[@johnwalshaw]

I added a 100x40x20mm aluminum heat sink on the back of an Nvidia T1000, with 3mm thermal pad. The air flow is sealed with tape and a 40x40x28mm fan. Result is 10°C reduction in temps under load. What prompted me to do this was noticing the thermals creeping up as time passed and measured 75°C on the back of the card. All while maintaining the single slot tiny cooler on the other side. It's also a way to get heat away from the single slot DP plate where there's nowhere for the heat to exhaust. Things just were getting more and more heat soaked.

[@EinSwitzer]

Makes the whole gaming experience fast and smooth , if a hitch or stutter occurs it now self scans and comes up with a fix test or a replacement with its own catalog of software stencils

[@wapted]

On a multi RTX 3090 setup I used 1u Server vapour chamber heatsinks on the backplate. It really helped with the insane vram temperatures

[@Pasquizle]

Only GPU I can see this working with well is the RTX 3090 with it's ram being on the backside

[@johntet]

But why are you going with the worst case scenario of usage just to disregard these? Not that i would ever buy these , but if i had them on hand that's what i would additionally test out of curiosity : a)Memory temps on full back plate b)Gpus with cutout behind the chip maybe c)gpu's without backplate and while we are at it d)Proper , well-thought mounting

[@tobiwonkanogy2975]

i could only see this working if it was a backplate replacement, taking an aluminum sheet , changing it for copper and adding fans should reduce board temps but it seems the transfer between materials with a backplate still in place isn't much better. 5-8 degrees C at best and only the outside most layer, not the PCB necessarily. slight worry to over compress the pads and short out components with copper plates though.

[@dakula74]

why u not try 3090???

[@davidwu8689]

My 7900xt memory got 80C+ overclocked, I was actually considering buying one and thanks for the video.

[@XantheFIN]

If there is anything components needing cooling.. there is never too much of cooling!

[@commanderoof4578]

They are specifically for the 3090 For my 3090 and hap-hazardly slapped a huge thermal-pad between my 3090’s backplate and my dead 1070’s cooler and dropped 20c under etherium load from 110c to 90c Hell if i used K5 pro and put it between my Vram and backplate and between my backplate and the cooler i would expect to see a further 10c drop and for anything but etherium i would expect to see my Vram cooler than the GPU die Main reason is because mine is a 2 slot card due to my case and my 1070’s cooler fits on the back of it cus i cut a hole in said case connecting the CPU and GPU compartments and i dont have the side panels on If only K5 pro was easy to get at the time cus i spent £110 on 4 sizes of THE BEST thermal pads at the time and to have them in 3 days as opposed to 3 months of aliexpress K5 pro i would have only needed £20 of the stuff with todays prices

[@soulshinobi]

You need to also test overclocking because the back plate helps cool the VRM

[@hi_tech_reptiles]

Hot backplate = dissipated heat. Solution: don't touch your backplate under full load. 😅 Edit: in all seriousness, i understand adding stuff especially for better GDDR6 temps etc but regular heat sinks or pad between the plate, direct airflow... So many simpler, cheaper and better looking solutions lol

[@davidepannone6021]

Lol that first backplate cooler reminded me of those og zalmam coolers that had fins similar to razor blades. So much curses whenever a client bought those coolers lol.

[@jakobbv1071]

Hey Roman, would you please take a look at the 7900xtx red Devil water block from EKWB? I got mine and am seeing some weird thermals after multiple remounts.

[@cdburner5911]

Hey, I recall seeing a company (non-ali express, afaik) that sells a generic GPU backplate water block (looked it up, mp5works). It would be really interesting to see the actual wattage removed by measuring delta T and flow. Also, if there was any improvement by adding additional thermal pads behind the gpu die/vram.

[@sfacets]

I usually prevent my fingers from burning on the backplate of my GPU by not touching the backplate of my GPU

[@BaH4o3eH]

I've got thirty seconds of healthy laughter when I saw this curved “leg” out of package

[@LawrenceTimme]

Why waste this on an amd card? These are clearly designed for 3090 with gddr6x on back.

[@Maniachiy]

active backplate required to 3090 mining, or any other high power with dual side vmem chips

[@Maxa1]

I'm like 95% sure the AVC fan that came with the second heatsink is from an AMD CPU stock cooler circa 2005.

[@RFLCTR]

You should have used it on the 3090 to lower the memory chips temps on the back of the card.

[@Decenium]

I would say just having a fan from the front blowing air over backplate would be plenty. Also yeah the tie rip stuff is painful...probably why they included thermal glue, and man if that second one was just done more professionally, it would actually be pretty cool imo

[@Tanook]

Does this dude really complained about thermpad being not strictly cut? Is he for real?

[@reecebower9934]

Tbf you could have zip tied to the bottom fin. That way your not crushing the top fins.

[@tomwaller6893]

Wonderful, I love this stuff. I can not wait to get my hands on your new AMD 7000 direct die IHS solution so I can keep my existing AIO cooler hi.

[@rawdez_]

5:50 you can put top ziptie inside the finstack, on top of the fin closest to the card. also you can cut off excess termal pad, it'd look better-ish.

[@ricardolmendes]

Why not a 3090 which is probably the card that would make more sense to this?

[@poppyrider5541]

Get rid of the backplate and fix it directly to the pcb and I think that second one would do quite a good job.

[@EmoEmu]

Zip-ties der8auer goes ghetto

[@thedeegee1601]

We need a third test... add the copper one with two fans on top of the 3 heatpipes of the active one... lolz

[@Ormmwar]

Those are literally meant for the 3090, it's the only card that can use them.

[@caldasrafa]

in a 3090 at full power a little more performance you may get, and longer lifespan

[@IcebergTech]

If you had an air cooler on the CPU, you'd be dumping heat straight from your GPU's backplate into it 😆

[@radugrigoras]

I did my own thing to my 3070ti. Got a couple aluminum heat sinks off digikey. Instead of zip ties I masked off about 3mm around the edges with tape, applied thermal paste, removed the tape, and then applied 2 part epoxy around the edges. Stuck them on, put some weights on it and let the epoxy cure. Then flipped it over, drilled the holes for mounting. Stuck on two noctua 90mm fans and she was good to go. Got 15c on GPU and Hotspot. It looks kinda jank, not as jank as these things for sure but it works really well.

[@dreyga2]

same -15c if you remove the back plate :))

[@Eazon_]

How about the more passive solutions? Like simple, big heatsinks ? Would probably get enough airflow from the case fans anyway, while having a lot more surface area than the backplate I'm seeing some for like 9€ and its also not as ugly

[@richmanricho]

That 2nd one looks as bad as the time Alex and Linus made a heat sink with heat pipes

[@stefan7231]

Please do the same test but on a 3090 and check the memory temperatures.

[@dominiquevanwyk518]

Yep check vram temps instead, especially on 3090 dumping heat into the backplate directly

[@jurakerleha]

You should test it on RTX 3090 or on the GPU where are VRAM chips on both sides,on RTX 3090s it helps lower VRAM temperatures by good margin,on 6900XT not sure if that's helps but definitely on RTX 3090 or 4090 this would definitely helps with lower VRAM temperatures

[@dreyga2]

helps but doesn't solve it. The 3090 is still overheating.

[@neurokinetik]

Dawid would be proud of this level of jank.

[@PrimalRampageGaming]

If youre placing VRMs on the back then yes you need a better cooling solution other than the thin metal plate. I tore down my 3090, repad/pasted everything and put additional aluminum heat sinks on the back plate. It dropped my temps by over 25*C.

[@dreyga2]

why not remove the backplate and place them on the memory...then u get excellent temps on memory and gpu core because there is no trapped heat.

[@Lishtenbird]

If I'm ever paying 50€ for a GPU backplate, the least I'm expecting it to have is an RGB-empowered waifu.

[@dreyga2]

2x hotter

[@michaelthompson9798]

Nothing like hi end tech, low-end jank with high end prices

[@grobny_man]

Try with 3090.

[@OzzyBoganTech]

lol it all looks good to me cable ties and glue is how I roll

[@nguyenson7073]

maybe you can try drilling some holes thru the backplate into the cooling block and screw them together for some more fun? this should eliminate the stupid look of those cable ties and better thermal contact.

[@thefreedomhouse1984]

13:20 Imagine shipping that out thinking yup another satisfied customer

[@infinitywulf]

The moment the attachment options were zip ties my brain said nope. Zip ties have one possible use in my rig, cable management, and that's it.

[@stevenwest1494]

I'd really like to see De8aurer try making the slimmest air-cooled 3090, you can buy. I thought Roman was going to mount the backplates directly onto the GPU circuit board, not through the original backplate, which is limited by the thermal conductivity of the original backplates conductivity to heat, which is aluminium. Copper cannot conduct heat faster than aluminium will allow.

[@OTechnology]

Isn't this more useful for something like the 3090 with VRAM on the back and VRAM temperature sensors?

[@georgefoxes1298]

Make a conductonaut filled custom loop pc please.

[@nik12937]

The choice of a massive thermal pad confuses me. They should have just provided a big sheet of double-sided thermal tape, I bet it would have been cheaper for them and performed about the same.

[@vapingtime3272]

Love this weird stuff! One day we'll be shocked, with something that actually works. Cheers Roman, great content as usual 🤛

[@AnIdiotAboard_]

Free tip when using zip ties to secure things down around square objects. Tennis Balls, Hollow Rubber Balls, and Ping Pong Balls. Cut them in half, in this case it would have been flat line down on backplate, and zip ties over the top, not only toes this allow for serious pressure to be applied, it also EVENLY pushes down into the backplate thanks to natures most stable of shapes. :)

[@ilikegpu]

see if you could just make a backplate like that but with punch out holes for the targeted cards and include longer screws or something i feel like its be way more feasible

[@Gobeman]

When i saw that Number one backplate I imeddiatly thought of those old GPU coolers ala MSI's logo in the cut metal n stuff. Due to how jank that looked at a first glance "Take the plates. cut em. okay now put 2 fans in em"

[@blkshp25]

My 3090 STRIX memory temps immediately hit 100c with any load at stock voltages. Had to drop it to .9 volts to get decent temps but loss performance .

[@gamingevolved760]

Best option is undervolting card,than can get 10 degree cooler with 2% less fps

[@psychosis7325]

I need to know how it will perform with the glue 😆

[@direct34]

I have a 80mm AIO I don't use I have attached to my gpu backplate hotspot. I care more about the temperature at the PCIEx16 slot but thanks for your result.

[@homelessEh]

......fools errand.. attaching it to a new videocard.. probably better results using it on an old 8800 or hd4890..

[@Abrikosmanden]

Thanks for testing these things 🙂 You're saving people lost of money!

[@duniek86]

50euro maybe is a waste of money, but i found generic aluminium heatsink (5-10euro) and put on backplate on 3080 and 3090 + 2x 92mm fans blowing on it and I definanetly see a difference in temperatures

[@volvo09]

Exactly what people need for their $1000 - $1500 graphics cards, a janky piece of junk taped to the back.

[@MTBScotland]

got good results using an old GPU heatsink attached to my watercooled card to reduce the memory temp for OCing. Backplate had thermal pads to the PCB and got quite hot.

[@WELSHYTECH]

just the thumbnail makes me think why

[@surpriserom]

I wonder if just having a Fan put near the back plate would have as much affect as those solution as the backplate is already a flat radiator, just add some airflow to help the performance should be enough. As you said, the water cooling is what will help with cooling and performance.

[@robr640]

Yes it would, I got a 3090 & while the memory junction (the hottest module) never really got to dangerous temps there has been a few times I seen it top out around 98/99C (thermal throttling is supposed to start at 110C on GDDR6X modules). Which is a bit too close to the limit for my liking. I put a 120mm Noctua fan with some bumpers to hold it up off the backplate a little on it & have never seen above 92 on my mem junction temp since.

[@ViniV82]

You need to put the zip tie in the last space just abov the sheet that makes contact with the thermal pad and then backplate, not that it will change something but just for looks

[@compuguy123]

All I do is put a lot of small heatsinks for steppers on the back of the card. Works way better than anything else.

[@Thisandthat8908]

i don't have many standards. Just build the worlds confirmed only RGP-free gaming PC. In a black metal case. But even i would not use this thing. If the backplate needed cooling, it would have cooling (and cost even more). But talking of packages, i got my 450€ motherboard from Amazon, and it came basically in a a paperbag. It's own box inside of course. The bag was ripped half open, probabaly when being pushed into the Amazon locker... At least i hope because the board box was very clearly visible through it. And it was shipped from and by Amazon. Interesting solution.