Gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Xtreme 11G repaste

[directorguy7]

Hi,

So looking at replacing the thermal paste on my Gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Xtreme 11G. I assume I can find videos on how to remove the fan/heatsink etc...

I am using thermal grizzly kryonaut, so high end stuff I am pretty sure gigabyte would not use something this nice to mass market (not a swipe at gigabyte, they rock.) My question is around the thermal pads. Assuming I am careful and dont over do it, is it safe to replace the pads with the grizzly as well? Would it be better at heat management than the stock pads? Or should you always replace pads with pads.

If its a pad for pad, does anyone recommend high end thermal pads that would work with my GPU?

[xSOSxHawkens]

pad fro pad and most pads are comparable enough that unless the ones already there are incredibly dirty or worn you can just re-use them unlike thermal paste. Realistically there is little reason to disturb them when you remove the HSF and you can leave the ones that stay on the CPU board there until you reapply, but some might stay on the HSF and you can move them back over carefully.

[directorguy7]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von xSOSxHawkens:

pad fro pad and most pads are comparable enough that unless the ones already there are incredibly dirty or worn you can just re-use them unlike thermal paste. Realistically there is little reason to disturb them when you remove the HSF and you can leave the ones that stay on the CPU board there until you reapply, but some might stay on the HSF and you can move them back over carefully.

See I was going to do this, but then looking around briefly people say dont reuse the pads, which seems kind of dumb if they are in good shape, its not like they are sealed or some other reason why removing the HSF would somehow ruin the pads. Card is fairly new.

Would removing this void the warranty or would I need to do something more extreme than just essentially removing and putting the HSF back on?

[xSOSxHawkens]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von directorguy7:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von xSOSxHawkens:

pad fro pad and most pads are comparable enough that unless the ones already there are incredibly dirty or worn you can just re-use them unlike thermal paste. Realistically there is little reason to disturb them when you remove the HSF and you can leave the ones that stay on the CPU board there until you reapply, but some might stay on the HSF and you can move them back over carefully.

See I was going to do this, but then looking around briefly people say dont reuse the pads, which seems kind of dumb if they are in good shape, its not like they are sealed or some other reason why removing the HSF would somehow ruin the pads. Card is fairly new.

Would removing this void the warranty or would I need to do something more extreme than just essentially removing and putting the HSF back on?

You will be fine resuing them. In my experiance the harder part is finding the thickness needed, as if the entire pad was compressed you might pickup soemhitng to thin aftermarket. But either way you will likely be fine unless they are torn.

As for warranty, probably not, but thats a bit porobably. Allot will depend on the maker, the country you live in, and the card model itself can even be a factor (example, Sapphire will let you break warranty stickers on their third party cooled AMD cards, but even in the USA will deny a claim on a reference card with broken stickers because *they* dont warranty those in themselves, they take them back and send them to AMD which replaces them 1:1 and AMD will deny their return for broken stickers as an OEM supplier returning opened parts. So they wont warranty out a stock cooled unit that is opened, but they *will* warranty out a custom cooled unit they made in the USA *but* not in allot of other countries if you break the sticker).

Most companies are similar in that its all about the place you are, and the card oyu have.

Look into it before you do if its a concern for you though.

[Jamebonds1]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von directorguy7:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von xSOSxHawkens:

pad fro pad and most pads are comparable enough that unless the ones already there are incredibly dirty or worn you can just re-use them unlike thermal paste. Realistically there is little reason to disturb them when you remove the HSF and you can leave the ones that stay on the CPU board there until you reapply, but some might stay on the HSF and you can move them back over carefully.

See I was going to do this, but then looking around briefly people say dont reuse the pads, which seems kind of dumb if they are in good shape, its not like they are sealed or some other reason why removing the HSF would somehow ruin the pads. Card is fairly new.

Would removing this void the warranty or would I need to do something more extreme than just essentially removing and putting the HSF back on?

No, that is an only thermal paste. So if you take it off, you will need to replace it. You don't want an air gap on it.

So if it has a thermal pad, you don't need replacement unless dirty get in the way or ripped. The bitter truth is you should try not to rip it off because if you picked a wrong thermal pad, it will ruin your GPU.

They have a right to void the warranty if you take it off and break it.

[directorguy7]

Final question, just to be safe in the event I end up messing up a pad, anyone know how to find the thickness of pads gigabyte uses? Google is not very much help as its so specific to the model. Would best bet trying to see if Gigabyte would actually tell me?

[xSOSxHawkens]

things like that are not made known.

Best bt is to find a pad that had a bit extra on it. make sure its a bit of space from where it was compressed as you dont want to read thin from compression or read thick from the shuished out bit on the edge. But, find a nice un-tainted part of the pad and eyeball its thickness in mm then buy that.

If you dont have any non-adulterated areas you will just have to make a best guess, but chances are with a card htat new the pads will be plenty fine to re-use. I wouldnt be too woried about pads falling apart unless I was repasting a 10-15yr old GPU or older.

[Jamebonds1]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von directorguy7:

Final question, just to be safe in the event I end up messing up a pad, anyone know how to find the thickness of pads gigabyte uses? Google is not very much help as its so specific to the model. Would best bet trying to see if Gigabyte would actually tell me?

Gigabyte doesn't actually make Gigabyte thermal pad, so you will need to find one in a different online market like digikey.com. You would have to make sure it is the correct thermal pad with a lower C/W (Thermal Resistivity). Higher C/W is bad for the GPU chip.

On my conclusion, I advise you not to take the heatsink off if you have no expertise with this thing.