nice video! I wish you also had specified the sizes, because I see that there some 120x20mm, others 120x120mm and so on. you put the calipers on the packages when you showed them and some have covered exactly the size
Your video helped me...a lot! So I picked up a used, RTX 3090 OC white card which had a bad fan. I replaced the three fans (who does just one after disassembling the card to that level?) And replaced all the thermal pad compounds all around...based upon your educational video. Using Gelid thermal pads along with Arctic MX-5 paste for the chip I see sustained temps of 42c when system is basically at idle. And while under load running MSFS2020/RDR2/GTAV normally 62c to 65c. It was a bit of a gamble grabbing a used card like that, the seller assured me it ran and hadn't seen indications of thermal throttle prior to nor after the fan failure. He pulled the card as soon as the fan failed as the blade had unseated from the post of the wireless brush head. So for a couple of hundred bucks, another seventy in materials and my labor I have a really decent 3090 OC White and the ROG ring too.
Nice video! Do you know the pad thickness for ASUS ROG Strix RTX 4090 OC Edition, by any chance?? I wanted to know before hand so I don't disassemble it and then find out I need to order different thickness pads. Please and thank you!
Hello I did follow the instruction carefully and then bought 0.5mm 1mm & 3mm for Backplate. I have RX 5700XT Gigabyte somehow I don't know what is the measurement of cutting and real thickness without compression.
Those are different GPUs and might have different measurements, normally the compression depends on the shore of the thermal pads - generally the compression should be between 0.2 and 0.5mm
Hola, he usado estas thermal pads: 1 paquete de Gelid Ultimate 0.5mm 1 paquete de Gelid Ultimate 1.0mm 1 paquete de Gelid Ultimate 1.5mm 2 paquetes (90x50mm) de Gelid Ultimate 2.0mm 1 paquete de Gelid Extreme 2.5mm
Hello there, thanks! For me it worked and I was about to lower the temps but I have to say that in this GPU they have used acceptable thermal pads, so if you bought it recently brand new and you have a medium case with a normal air flow and you're not having crazy high temps I would suggest you to consider changing them after 6months/1year; but anyway you will notice improvements
@@JULVEXGAMING Thanks!, well actually I got rid of liquid cooling (plexi was getting dirty even when cleaning properlly) so I'm back to air. I'm getting 14.8 W/mk pads but I was wondering about the thickness. So thanks again! :)
Hi, I used my Strix 3090 for about 4-5 years now. Recently I’ve started to get random PC restarts in high FPS games with v-sync off. All benchmarks don’t seemed to be reproducing the crash at all. Of course I checked the core temperature during game, usually it’s under 65-70 degrees which is normal I reckon. But when I downloaded HWmonitor I saw that “hot spot” is about 100-105 degrees and could be 110 at its peak. Should I really destroy the guarantee by opening it and change the termopads or something? Will it help? Thanks!
I believe that after 4-5 years the warranty might be over Amyway, opening the GPU for changing the thermal pads shouldn't be an issue in most cases - before doing that I would recommend to check it with your local reseller
might work for the thermal pads on the memory, for the rest you should measure once opened the GPU (keep in mind that,depending on where you live, opening the GPU might avoid the warranty)
Did not work for me. GPU 1 degrees improvement, memory no change and hotspot 2 degrees improvement. Asus Strix has good thermal pads, don't change it. It has cost me 60 euro, 2 hours of work and I've lost my warranty.
Hello there, this is only for educational purposes for those who might want to change the pads or repaste the core in case of thermal issues after the warranty, keep in mind thayou do t not always you could have good results as this depends much on materials, reassembly, and so on. As for the warranty - even if it is nonsense - you might lose it depends on where you live, that was stated in the disclaimer at the very beginning
damn, so what happen? i just bought myself a used rog strix 3090 which the seller said that the pads is quite dry cause he used waterblock for cooling before, i ran some test at home and the temp went up till 83-85C gpu temp with memory temp reaching 98-100C, should i just return it or should i try repaste and repads it with newer one? the fan is loud as hell too
@@mgeereview9398 I would try first to see if with ASUS GPU Tweak app you can manage somehow to get better temps. If the seller changes the pads and thermal paste when using the waterblock ‘theoretically’ when he put all together back the heatsink etc he should have re-applied again also new thermal pads and paste; try asking Otherwise you can try change it by yourself, if you don’t feel comfortable doing so I would suggest returning it
