GPU Overheat issue

[cavedog]

What are those strips on the sides.

I bought this card second hand btw so when I replaced the paste and pads I replaced it exactly with the sizes and exactly how it was on so maybe I'm just copying someone else's mistake because I put the pads exactly the way it was. I took photos before.

Let me get to work and clean it and try it again. This isn't my first time but I'm feeling like a noob now with this card.

Thanks for the assist

 

[Heisenborg]

I bought this card second hand btw so when I replaced the paste and pads I replaced it exactly with the sizes and exactly how it was on so maybe I'm just copying someone else's mistake because I put the pads exactly the way it was. I took photos before.

Let me get to work and clean it and try it again. This isn't my first time but I'm feeling like a noob now with this card.

Thanks for the assist

There should be no pads there. Probably whats causing the alignment issues. Rip it off

 

[My_King]

Reminds me of a kak gigabyte GPU I had.

 

[Fulcrum29]

@cavedog is that an MSI RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio?

I had a look at this Reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/16zx3j7/msi_rtx_2080_gaming_x_trio_the_guide_how_to

There is a thermal pad schematic in there. I have an odd idea that whoever had that GPU used a standard thermal pad on the GPU. For whatever reason, I am unsure. I have no idea how the RTX 2080 thermally behaves; it is possible that someone recommended that pad, which is, in my opinion, inadvisable, or it has been used as a spacer (lol) or the GPU was tested, hence a temporary application.

Enzo is likely right about that being the issue. This said, are the tension (spring loaded) screws normal?

IIRC, there were cooling plate mods. I can't say whether someone used those or something similar in that GPU. Just assemble it as normal. I watched Optimum tearing down a Gaming X Trio non-Ti, and there doesn't seem to be a tension bracket?

 

[Fulcrum29]

There should be no pads there. Probably whats causing the alignment issues. Rip it off

I am also convinced that is the issue, but I am curious what it is doing there. Cooling plate mods were a thing with those GPUs, and I wonder whether it had one that was removed.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Here is a guy installing cooling plate mods in his MSI RTX 3080 Ti Gaming X Trio.

He messed up, though.

 

[Lupus]

I am also convinced that is the issue, but I am curious what it is doing there. Cooling plate mods were a thing with those GPUs, and I wonder whether it had one that was removed.

Valid point as is the thermal pad application over the memory by the looks of it, not very neat. Didn't see that at first glance just the oodles of thermal paste

 

[Lupus]

When you look at the heat sink and it has more thermal paste outside of the spot it wants to cool

That's not good, you want the thermal paste in the middle and covering as much as possible.

 

[Tongs of Destiny]

You know it's all a gimmick right... these fancy thermal pastes that are like 5ml and cost R500.
Here you go, I use this... 100g tube for R60 at the hardware store. And yes I have been using this on multiple CPU's for decades and no problems at all.

Just make sure your heatsink is actually squishing down properly nice and tight onto that chip... it needs to pull that heat off it. Maybe your heatsink is warped and not making a perfect flat touch, then when it heats up your thermal paste slowly oozes out the side and creates hotspots on the chip

 

[B-1]

You know it's all a gimmick right... these fancy thermal pastes that are like 5ml and cost R500.
Here you go, I use this... 100g tube for R60 at the hardware store. And yes I have been using this on multiple CPU's for decades and no problems at all.

Just make sure your heatsink is actually squishing down properly nice and tight onto that chip... it needs to pull that heat off it. Maybe your heatsink is warped and not making a perfect flat touch, then when it heats up your thermal paste slowly oozes out the side and creates hotspots on the chip

View attachment 1832089

If OP used that his GPU would have had short circuits and most likely be trash now. There are plenty of options for thermal paste at a reasonable price that are not conductive.

 

[Tongs of Destiny]

If OP used that his GPU would have had short circuits and most likely be trash now. There are plenty of options for thermal paste at a reasonable price that are not conductive.

yes magically after decades of using this it is short circuiting everything and my pc's have blown up all over the place...

oh wait they haven't and they all run 100%

remind me what's underneath a heatsink..... jeeeeezus!

 

[B-1]

yes magically after decades of using this it is short circuiting everything and my pc's have blown up all over the place...

oh wait they haven't and they all run 100%

remind me what's underneath a heatsink..... jeeeeezus!

I said OP who has paste all over the capacitors and resistors to the side of the chip.

 

[cavedog]

@cavedog is that an MSI RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio?

I had a look at this Reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/16zx3j7/msi_rtx_2080_gaming_x_trio_the_guide_how_to

There is a thermal pad schematic in there. I have an odd idea that whoever had that GPU used a standard thermal pad on the GPU. For whatever reason, I am unsure. I have no idea how the RTX 2080 thermally behaves; it is possible that someone recommended that pad, which is, in my opinion, inadvisable, or it has been used as a spacer (lol) or the GPU was tested, hence a temporary application.

Enzo is likely right about that being the issue. This said, are the tension (spring loaded) screws normal?

IIRC, there were cooling plate mods. I can't say whether someone used those or something similar in that GPU. Just assemble it as normal. I watched Optimum tearing down a Gaming X Trio non-Ti, and there doesn't seem to be a tension bracket?

It's the EVGA RTX 2080

 

[cavedog]

There should be no pads there. Probably whats causing the alignment issues. Rip it off

I am also convinced that is the issue, but I am curious what it is doing there. Cooling plate mods were a thing with those GPUs, and I wonder whether it had one that was removed.

Valid point as is the thermal pad application over the memory by the looks of it, not very neat. Didn't see that at first glance just the oodles of thermal paste

I adjusted the pad however the memory modules do extend a bit past that cover that is why the pads were there. That is how it was when I opened it.

After adjusting it I would I have about 1.5mm of memory module that doesn't have the pad on it. Didn't take a pic but yeah cleaned and repasted I hope that those 6 memory modules don't become the new hotspot now.

 

[cavedog]

When you look at the heat sink and it has more thermal paste outside of the spot it wants to cool
View attachment 1832087
That's not good, you want the thermal paste in the middle and covering as much as possible.

That was a result of too much paste on the chip and when installing the heatsink it gets squished out on the sides. I only applied paste on the chip.

That was original concern. Why would the paste melt away in the centre like that. Thinking it might be the heatsink that is not properly seated so did some adjustments will see how it goes now.

 

[cavedog]

You know it's all a gimmick right... these fancy thermal pastes that are like 5ml and cost R500.
Here you go, I use this... 100g tube for R60 at the hardware store. And yes I have been using this on multiple CPU's for decades and no problems at all.

Just make sure your heatsink is actually squishing down properly nice and tight onto that chip... it needs to pull that heat off it. Maybe your heatsink is warped and not making a perfect flat touch, then when it heats up your thermal paste slowly oozes out the side and creates hotspots on the chip

View attachment 1832089

Yeah so thinking it's not squishing it as expected leaving some sort of small gap allowing the paste to melt away after a few months then causing the temp issue

 

[Lupus]

That was a result of too much paste on the chip and when installing the heatsink it gets squished out on the sides. I only applied paste on the chip.

That was original concern. Why would the paste melt away in the centre like that. Thinking it might be the heatsink that is not properly seated so did some adjustments will see how it goes now.

Doesn't look like it melted away, looked like it oozed out the sides, like an overly stuffed doughnut being bitten into .
I just checked but it seems that this card did have thermal pads, not sure if it was all over the gpu and the memory. Lets see how the new repasting works out.

 

[N@t3]

Some thermal sperm and you good to go.

 

[Fulcrum29]

It's the EVGA RTX 2080

Ah now I see,

https://www.reddit.com/r/TEAMEVGA/comments/1is1o0p/thermal_pads_size_for_evga_2080_xc_gaming_nonti

So it is the pads under the baseplate I didn't even realise that it was a baseplate. Then the pads aren't an issue, but potentially their thickness.

 

[cavedog]

Doesn't look like it melted away, looked like it oozed out the sides, like an overly stuffed doughnut being bitten into .
I just checked but it seems that this card did have thermal pads, not sure if it was all over the gpu and the memory. Lets see how the new repasting works out.

So far so good. This card also has a very annoying coil whine under load.

Ah now I see,

https://www.reddit.com/r/TEAMEVGA/comments/1is1o0p/thermal_pads_size_for_evga_2080_xc_gaming_nonti

So it is the pads under the baseplate I didn't even realise that it was a baseplate. Then the pads aren't an issue, but potentially their thickness.

Thanks I save this in case it still gives me an issue then i will redo the pads on this diagram and see.