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You can have much bettery temperatures by replacing thermal pads with K5 PRO but you need to use really really a lot of it.
Check this video. They use 60g K5 PRO for one Nvidia 1080 TI

https://youtu.be/uFGfWOSrGiQ

Replacing thermal pads/thermal paste is not a new trick tho. You should be familiar with it even if you're not a miner (at least an enthusiast or gamer would know about this).

Another trick you can also use is to replace the cooler with a CPU cooler, but I don't think that's efficient for mining.

https://i.ibb.co/6X3R0dt/image.jpg (https://ibb.co/QD2Fv5H)

WTF ???
And what will happen after the next removal of the cooling system?
Will this mixture have to be cleaned up and done again?
I'd rather use Good thermal paste and expensive ceramic thermal pads if needed.
But I will definitely not do what was done in this video.

I think bitcointalk must close this.
This video is very stupid dont do this never. You will ruin your card. Flux under gpu is very stupid there is no benefit of doing this. and that paste for memory and mosfets are completely out of their minds.

There will not be next time. to rubbish after this. I never seen so stupid thing in my life. i saw paste under memory but this one gone to much.

What's the temp you getting on max usage level after using this k5 pro? Are you sure it's safe to use because thermal pastes are build for this reason using any other can work but do some damage to chips life, I think it's lot safer to use thermal pastes and pads instead

What I learnt after owning tons and tons of GPUs which were mostly used for mining, never change the thermal paste unless its a fairly new card. If you got a GPU you have been mining for >3 years, don't change the thermal paste.

What happens is that the factory paste hardens and sticks to the GPU chip, to seperate from the heatsink you will need to use force to break it lose, and by doing this you will form microcracks in the solder balls between the GPU and PCB board. So after a few weeks you will get issues with the GPU. Your rig will crash, won't start, or you will get BSOD upon Windows boot. And the temps didn't improve at all in the first place.

If your GPU is fairly new then you can do it because the paste is probably still fresh and won't be glued to the GPU.

Most times i`ve got problems than decided to make smth work better. Changing thermal pads is possible if you have overheat problem. But such case of repair is unacceptable.

You probably haven't watched all of the videos.
They also poured an incomprehensible liquid under the video chip.
I did this when changing the chip or doing reballing is impractical, for example, on the GTX 650 video card.
If the soldering is broken, then in this way you can restore the operation of the video card

the one who invented this shit must have a fucked up life to come up with this kind of shit LOL