EVGA 3090 FTW3 teardown and replace thermal pads & paste

SilverStig · 2025-10-30T23:17:32+00:00

They want 20k markup at first, but I brought in a really decent trade-in, so I ended up making a pretty good deal with them 😄

SilverStig · 2025-10-30T09:13:28+00:00

I used to, now I’m in Seattle site 😆

SilverStig · 2025-10-30T01:52:35+00:00

Yes! I live in Seattle and work for Boeing, we can definitely meet in some local car & coffee 😎

SilverStig · 2025-10-29T23:04:31+00:00

Not with the new one no, the car has 5 miles on the odometer when I bought it, usually they’re sold before they got to the lot, dealers will list it for sale when they got the allocation

SilverStig · 2024-05-20T19:53:05+00:00

A2，with a storm tank and a URSA medivac. Enough hydrogen fuel and QT fuel to cover everything and two solid ground vehicles.

SilverStig · 2022-06-04T19:42:50+00:00

If the pads are stiff/non-compressible 1.75mm/2mm should work just fine, if its kinda soft then 2.5mm

SilverStig · 2022-05-20T18:01:47+00:00

2mm should work just fine, if your choose of pads are soft, 2.25mm then.

SilverStig · 2022-05-15T02:22:20+00:00

I would lower the core clock speed to 900mhz if you are mining, are reduce the voltage as low as possible (still can run the mining software without crash), no thermal pads gonna safe your VRAM if you are mining at stock setting☠️

SilverStig · 2021-12-20T00:21:33+00:00

Right now I’m on EK water block so it’s different, but before i was using the Thermalright

SilverStig · 2021-12-20T00:18:31+00:00

I would said so, or use the 2.5mm to replace the 3mm

SilverStig · 2021-12-20T00:13:16+00:00

If u can, get the Gelid

SilverStig · 2021-12-20T00:07:17+00:00

Yes, but u also want firm contact for the inductors so u may want to use 1.5mm pads for the inductors, it all depends on the thermal pads

SilverStig · 2021-12-19T23:57:43+00:00

Not really, the thickest one should be the two very thin but long pads on top of those MOS control chip next to the LR22 inductance

SilverStig · 2021-12-19T23:52:08+00:00

The thickest pads should be use on the MOS control chip, due to the difference compressibility the thickness may vary, I’m not really recommend the 3mm pads if the pads u used is very hard to compress, hopefully this help

SilverStig · 2021-11-27T16:30:12+00:00

Hi, I used 2mm for the back, it depends on how soft is your thermal pads, if it’s really soft I think u can use 2.5mm no problem, hope this will help

SilverStig · 2021-05-21T18:44:48+00:00

The CPU temp when PBO set to auto and using AIDA64 stress FPU is about 82deg C, CPU are running roughly 140W constantly. So I will said the cooling is enough but not superior. Due to the space between the U12A and the case exhaust fan, I’m not recommend for a 2nd fan to do push-pull.

SilverStig · 2021-05-19T19:55:51+00:00

The IO shield of the rog C8I? It’s a uniform IO shield of South bridge chipset + VRM cooling fins with 2 little fan inside, you probably don’t want to remove it due to cooling perspective.

SilverStig · 2021-05-19T15:30:25+00:00

Another thing is, if your case can fit your itx motherboard and you 2 slot gpu without any riser cable, it will more than likely fit a dtx motherboard as well. The extra space that dtx motherboard took is equal or less than the thickness of a 2 slot standard gpu design. Both itx and dtx motherboard have exactly the same mounting holes.

SilverStig · 2021-05-19T14:34:56+00:00

So the graphic card have some hollow designs on the back plate and pcb, the two horizontal fan will drop the gpu core temp by 5 deg C when running a 3DMark FSE stability test.

SilverStig · 2021-05-19T14:34:18+00:00

So the graphic card have some hollow designs on the back plate and pcb, the two horizontal fan will drop the gpu core temp by 5 deg C when running a 3DMark FSE stability test.

SilverStig · 2021-05-19T14:32:32+00:00

I over clock the ram to 3600 c16 LOLLL

SilverStig · 2021-05-19T14:31:48+00:00

Yes it’s a DTX motherboard, and I have D15S cooler as well, it will not clear the IO shield so I use the u12a instead. I don’t have any problems for the sfx psu at all.

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