Thermal-Pad-Replace succeeded 100%?

[mensa8409]

Hello,

I am unsure, if my thermal pad replacement on my MSI RTX 3080 Ventus 3X OC 10G Non-LHR did succeed, cause I still have 96°C - 98°C memory temp: https://i.imgur.com/iqKIdk3.png

It is better than before now, cause before you told me, that it was thermal throttling at around 110°C: https://i.imgur.com/8M0yCrH.png

But I am still unsure if my mem temp shouldn't be around 10°C less? So at around 85°C like in the video which describes the thermal pad replacement for exactly my model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8KKYtiuu0I

I used 2.5mm Thermal Right Extreme Odyssey pads, as 3.0mm was to thick. Thermal paste is Grizzly Kyronaut Extreme (CPU temp is fine I think).

Do you have any suggestions for me, how to bring the memory temperatur to around 85°C or do you think my temps are fine?

[Ketesnuko]

For RTX3080s 96°C is fine, people care less when their 3080 mining rig is mining at 100°C on memory temp, one question though, the old thermal pad you removed was it 2.5mm in size? I hope it is.

[mensa8409]

one question though, the old thermal pad you removed was it 2.5mm in size? I hope it is.

I am not exactly sure which size the old one was. My new 3.0mm were to thick and then the GPU temp went up very fast to nearly 90°C, cause it had no full contact with the heat sink because of the too thick thermal pads.
So as now the GPU temp is fine, I think 2.5mm must be OK. If I would use 2.0mm they could be too thin and memory temp could go up again, if no full contact with heat sink. Don't you think?

What I try to say: I mean, that memory temp can not go down more with 2.0mm thermal pads than it does already with 2.5mm thermal pads.

[Metroid]

for it to be successful, you need to focus on memory thermal pads having 100% contact with the heatsink, core temperature is secondary and others like mosfets and vrm, dont even bother. I did just this on my 3080 and core temp is 48c and memory temperature is around 74 - 78c. What i see, is that most of you trolls are focusing on vrm and mosfets and trust me there is no need as long as you keep your gpu clean, the only issue for them would be dust overtime but even though not much increase in temperature they would have, so focus on memory then core.

[mensa8409]

for it to be successful, you need to focus on memory thermal pads having 100% contact with the heatsink, core temperature is secondary and others like mosfets and vrm, dont even bother. I did just this on my 3080 and core temp is 48c and memory temperature is around 74 - 78c. What i see, is that most of you trolls are focusing on vrm and mosfets and trust me there is no need as long as you keep your gpu clean, the only issue for them would be dust overtime but even though not much increase in temperature they would have, so focus on memory then core.

Do you also think, that one should use additional thermal paste on both sides of the thermal pads?? That sounds a little bit overkill to me.

[Metroid]

Do you also think, that one should use additional thermal paste on both sides of the thermal pads?? That sounds a little bit overkill to me.

There is no need for and in the end will become a mess.

[YellowSwap]

for it to be successful, you need to focus on memory thermal pads having 100% contact with the heatsink, core temperature is secondary and others like mosfets and vrm, dont even bother. I did just this on my 3080 and core temp is 48c and memory temperature is around 74 - 78c. What i see, is that most of you trolls are focusing on vrm and mosfets and trust me there is no need as long as you keep your gpu clean, the only issue for them would be dust overtime but even though not much increase in temperature they would have, so focus on memory then core.

Do you also think, that one should use additional thermal paste on both sides of the thermal pads?? That sounds a little bit overkill to me.

Maybe, I've seen people that use thermal pastes on pads and they still get accurate results but its not needed, if you can use a A grade thermal pad you will be fine, you just have to make sure its the same size as the one you remove from the GPU.

[Mattthev]

How long do you have that card? If it's like less than 2 years, I kinda doubt it was actually necessary, I don't have this GPU so can't tell if there are some factory bad thermal pads. Have you wiped the remains from old thermal pads with some kind of alcohol?

[Metroid]

You trolls should always use programs like hwinfo64 to check the temperature of all sensors your gpus have to make sure everything is all right, just so you trolls know, I'm only using memory thermal pads and the heatsink for the core, other than that nothing at all, the highest temperature my vrm is getting on the 3080 is 65c at pwr4, all the others are lower than 57c and i'm not using any pad on them. The best thing to use on them, would be thermal putty because it conforms with the memory thermal pad height. This one is perfect for the job https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/t-global-technology/TG-PP10-30/6204862 , i'm not using it because i don't have it here with me, will place as soon as I get some.