How I took my GPU gaming temps from 90c to 50c

[Sassanid]

My trusty 1080ti FE has been suffering for a few years now with its crappy blower style fan, always reaching temps of 90c during gaming which would hold the card back. Overclocking was also a big no no. Even small overclocks would usually end in hard crashes.

I looked for cooling solutions since I knew I can't upgrade GPU any time soon. Enter the $30 G12 bracket by NZXT. Got it, connected an old AIO I had lying around to it, stripped my 1080ti and attached the G12 bracket to it and viola. Idle temps are now around 27-30c, gaming/benching around 50c. Can't really ask for more for the price. I'm sure this has extended the life of my 1080ti and now I can actually overclock no problem, getting over 2000mhz clock speeds without any issues. For a little extra cooling I bought some little heatsinks from amazon for around $14 that come pre-applied with thermal pads and added them to the VRAM and VRM modules which to my surprise helped even more with overclock numbers.

While it was a somewhat nerve wracking process for me doing something like this for the first time, taking apart a $700 GPU, in the end it was very worth it and I'm really happy with the results. Definitely recommended if your GPU is overheating like mine was or if it has crappy cooling. You can even attach a smaller 120 AIO to the G12 if you're limited for space but just make sure the AIO you use is compatible with the G12 first.

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[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

That sounds fantastic, man. I should do that to my 1070 fe. Temps are awful unless the fan is full blast.
Cheers

[plat]

That's really impressive.

Maybe now it'll last with more confidence until you can replace it with something new.

[emoticorpse]

I would have told you to get a new case with forty five fans on it heh

[Bad 💀 Motha]

That's why I've been buying the Hybrid GPUs from Corsair, MSI, EVGA since the release of the GTX 9xx series.

[Sassanid]

Hardware Hero™ の投稿を引用：

That sounds fantastic, man. I should do that to my 1070 fe. Temps are awful unless the fan is full blast.
Cheers

Definitely go for it, you won't be disappointed. No more throttling, can actually overclock now, everything cooler overall, smoother framerates. Can't complain for $30. AIOs can be bought pretty cheap these days, brilliant 120-140mm ones for around $70-80. It's the first big manual mod I've ever attempted and it's quite satisfying seeing the results first hand. If you have any questions, fire away, I'll check this thread.

[Sassanid]

plat の投稿を引用：

That's really impressive.

Maybe now it'll last with more confidence until you can replace it with something new.

For sure, I felt so bad gaming on it when it was always stuck on 90C. I felt like I was killing the poor thing.

[Sassanid]

Bad 💀 Motha の投稿を引用：

That's why I've been buying the Hybrid GPUs from Corsair, MSI, EVGA since the release of the GTX 9xx series.

Smart. I should have done that. i didn't think the FE blower fan would be this bad, always shoots up to 90C after years of use.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Blower Fan models = after a while you must remove the plastic cover and clean the GPU all on the inside, not just the outside or where the fan is. The heatsink inside ends up getting clogged up after a while, and not "years"... Blower Fan models have always been this way.

[Andrius227]

Tempting. I could do that to my old 1080 FE. But a lot of AIO’s have noisy pumps and thats a deal breaker for me… Anything louder than a 700rpm fan is no good for me.

[[☥] - CJ -]

i redid my 1060 6GB SSC a while back and temps dropped up to 30C which allowed me to do a higher overclock without worrying about temps.

Factory paste/tension jobs tend to suck, thats just a fact.

[Illusion of Progress]

GPUs have far less in the way of cooling than CPUs, especially since aftermaket CPU cooling isn't as unheard of, but it is less so with GPUs. If GPUs had a socket like a CPU and we stuck big heatsinks on them, they'd probably run far cooler.

☥ - CJ - Runner 7/8/21 の投稿を引用：

i redid my 1060 6GB SSC a while back and temps dropped up to 30C which allowed me to do a higher overclock without worrying about temps.

Factory paste/tension jobs tend to suck, thats just a fact.

Have you compiled results to support this? Not disputing your experience, but unless you do that on a very large scale, then you only have anecdotes to go off of. While there are definitely plenty of stories echoing drops with a repaste, I wouldn't anticipate that it's the norm, especially that they are so bad that you drop many doubles of digits in temperature after repasting it.

I've personally had the opposite experience. I've never had meaningful drops, even when doing it while its new, so I just stopped doing it unless I'm actually having a heating problem. I re-did the thermal paste on my GPU, also an aging GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB a few months ago (it was the first full tear-down it's received as well in around five years) and there was no drop. It had dust on it but nowhere near enough to obstruct it so I figured cleaning it wouldn't change much, but I was interested if I had a bad paste job but unless I did AND I also botched the repaste, seems I didn't.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Illusion of Progress の投稿を引用：

GPUs have far less in the way of cooling than CPUs, especially since aftermaket CPU cooling isn't as unheard of, but it is less so with GPUs. If GPUs had a socket like a CPU and we stuck big heatsinks on them, they'd probably run far cooler.

☥ - CJ - Runner 7/8/21 の投稿を引用：

i redid my 1060 6GB SSC a while back and temps dropped up to 30C which allowed me to do a higher overclock without worrying about temps.

Factory paste/tension jobs tend to suck, thats just a fact.

Have you compiled results to support this? Not disputing your experience, but unless you do that on a very large scale, then you only have anecdotes to go off of. While there are definitely plenty of stories echoing drops with a repaste, I wouldn't anticipate that it's the norm, especially that they are so bad that you drop many doubles of digits in temperature after repasting it.

I've personally had the opposite experience. I've never had meaningful drops, even when doing it while its new, so I just stopped doing it unless I'm actually having a heating problem. I re-did the thermal paste on my GPU, also an aging GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB a few months ago (it was the first full tear-down it's received as well in around five years) and there was no drop. It had dust on it but nowhere near enough to obstruct it so I figured cleaning it wouldn't change much, but I was interested if I had a bad paste job but unless I did AND I also botched the repaste, seems I didn't.

I posted about it when i did it so technically yes
look it up

[Illusion of Progress]

☥ - CJ - Runner 7/8/21 の投稿を引用：

I posted about it when i did it so technically yes
look it up

Eh?

I'm not questioning if it happened to you. I remember you claiming that a couple of times, and I typically take people for their word. I believe that you had the experience that you claimed.

I was simply asking if you have compiled actual data to support that they "tend to be bad and that is fact". When you state something like that and someone asks for evidence, personal experience and anecdotal evidence does not necessarily a fact make for the wider picture. Personal experiences vary and thus it can go multiple ways. I can also use my own to say they tend to be fine.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Ohhh THAT

No, just going from personal experience of changing out the factory paste of cards over the years

Paste is more likely as we dont know what paste they use so its plausible what they use could be inferior to what we may use, the WAY its applied could also logically be a cause.

So in my "opinion" its a plausible fact, tension could a factor as well but probably not i suppose.

Dont get me wrong, results CAN vary like in your case, but there are no doubt other factors as well. Granted the OP's experience is a bit different since hes using an AIO on it but still..

[Illusion of Progress]

Yeah, that, and sorry if it seemed like I was nitpicking. When someone says something is fact and I ask about it, I'm genuinely asking for a source that I may be unaware of because I know there is a LOT of stuff I don't know or are aware of. I wasn't disbelieving your own experience; I tend to take people for their word. Sometimes too much... it took me a while to see Shredder was going around the bush about upgrading his GPU even though everyone else here has been seeing it for years.

But yeah, a lot of people do change the thermal paste as a rule of thumb. I tried it on a few of mine, newer and older, and never really had major drops. I guess mine weren't bad to begin with.