Walkthrough video with two purposes:
1. Shedding some light on the change of specifications and the VRAM pad thicknesses required.
2. Showing the process of opening a reference NVIDIA RTX 3080Ti FE to replace the thermal pads with custom-size, high conductivity, thermal pads.
Same process for the NVIDIA RTX 3080Ti FE, and similar process for the 3090 FE.
Note: pads were removed ahead of the video to make sure there was nothing else visibly wrong with it.
You can get the custom GPU thermal pad sets from there:
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Material used:
- [prior to video recording] Cleaning: Paper towel + 99% isopropyl alcohol
- Thermal pads: pre-cut, custom set, 20 W/m-K.
- Thermal paste: SYY 15.7 W/m-K paste
Results:
- Included in the video at the very end
- Memory temperature drop of ~10°C under load
- GPU core temperature mostly unchanged
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