Nice. I'm just about to do all the pads and replace the fans on my XFX 6600XT SWFT 210. If anyone is interested XFX told me the VRAM pad size is 1mm and the VRM is 1.5mm. Also to make sure the pads are soft so the gaps get filled and the heatsink doesn't tilt. I went for Arctic TP-3 pads.
Hi, what temperatures are you getting with that GPU? I have the same model but I reach 80°C with the fan at 70%. What temperatures do you reach under maximum load?
I got more than 30c delta for core temp and hotspot, to fix that do i need to replace thermal pads on vram, vrm, or repasting gpu die? i wanna make sure first before ordering the parts i need.
Pretty much. Any disassembly would open the gpu die from the heatsink, i would recoment repasting it if you open it. 30c delta at the core temp, im pretty sure it need repasting. Thermal pads are usully rehusable, but they are cheap too, i got a pack 60 with several width for 10 euros. The thickness of the thermal pad is important. Too thicc can aislate and go hotter, or break because of the pression. Too thin and it does't do any contact.
@@JankieHandsFinally have the courage to open my card for repasting, and huge difference it really did, before it was 70c core with 99c hotspot at stock, after repasting it dropped to 67c core and 87c hotspot and that too with +15 powerlimit and overclocked to 2700mhz core speed 😂 Sadly though i used some left over cheap thermal paste i have left back when i did repasting cpu, probably not gonna last for more than 3 months lol, next time i"ll make sure to use decent paste, thx for the disassembly tutorial, it helped me alot.
I will do this on my 6600XT Eagle, the only issue is it's plastic backplate. What I will try is putting copper tape under the backplate and then thermal pads under it. If It doesn't do anything or straight up shorts because of the tape, so be it.
lmao, chad. I have an 3060 Eagle with alloy backplate (no thermal pad though, maybe i modify it too) (an also, the eagle mmodels varies model to model for some reason) But still, it should be safe, most themal mad are not electric conductors. being an XT i think you can get more performance from it (Also, plastic has better conductivity than air, technically it can help, but i just hope it doesn't melt anything lol)
