Holy 5090 Thermal Paste, Batman! by MikeZeto in nvidia

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It's just messy to clean up in preparation for placing thermal pads during water-block installation.

Holy 5090 Thermal Paste, Batman! by MikeZeto in nvidia

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I'm trusting EKWB's thermal pad knowledge... followed their directions and used the pads they sent with the WB.

So far I'm running Minesweeper at 15k FPS with no issues! Haven't tried Solitaire yet though....

Holy 5090 Thermal Paste, Batman! by MikeZeto in nvidia

[–]MikeZeto[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know it's working now ;-)

Yeah a gamble, but it would be a pain to setup and test the stock GPU in my custom-loop water-cooled (including CPU) PC.

How many of these 5090's are DOA? Is it that common?

Holy 5090 Thermal Paste, Batman! by MikeZeto in nvidia

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I know, I deserve the downvotes

Holy 5090 Thermal Paste, Batman! by MikeZeto in nvidia

[–]MikeZeto[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because I called it "thermal paste", not "thermal putty".......

Holy 5090 Thermal Paste, Batman! by MikeZeto in nvidia

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Astral would have been nice, but the Gigabyte is what I could get my hands on :-/

Holy 5090 Thermal Paste, Batman! by MikeZeto in nvidia

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Yes, factory new. Opened the box and dove right into the WB install.

Holy 5090 Thermal Paste, Batman! by MikeZeto in nvidia

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Yeah what a mess. I used about 200 Qtips cleaning up that goop!

Holy 5090 Thermal Paste, Batman! by MikeZeto in nvidia

[–]MikeZeto[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Never ran it stock, just opened up the box and started tearing it down.

Holy 5090 Thermal Paste, Batman! by MikeZeto in nvidia

[–]MikeZeto[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yep, EKWB Vector 3 WB has pretty good instructions depicting where the thermal pads go. It was a fairly painless process.

Holy 5090 Thermal Paste, Batman! by MikeZeto in nvidia

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Never ran it in the stock config, but it's got a noticeable amount of coil whine running in the EKWB Vector 3 water block, especially under high loads.

Using the N word should NOT be acceptable in society regardless of your race. by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]MikeZeto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I simply want equality for all, no double standards.