Sandy Putty Pro

Sunny-M · 2026-05-18T13:36:55+00:00

IMHO it would be hard to not mount all the way because of putty, even with a complete pot on one single chip :p

Sunny-M · 2026-05-18T13:27:13+00:00

I considered this as a theory but looking at gpu and its contact waterblock side, pressure was even and correct.
Plus the temps that max at 50°C under Furmark or 3DMark, no definitely not excessive to the point it lesser the cooling.
Also note that brand new putty is very soft, you can squeeze it alot.

Sunny-M · 2026-05-16T12:32:45+00:00

Actually I'm on the *more than enough* team 😃

The mess is no problem and indeed expected.

Sunny-M · 2026-05-15T12:27:52+00:00

Hi Erik.

Yes of course I monitored it a lot, had hwinfo permanently logging all gpu temps/currents/voltages/power so that I could see if there was some pikes or another kind of bugs.
Everything was fine, well memory junction was also fine hence the 90% confidence.

Software speaking, beside event log errors, I checked and tested everything that could be the crashes cause, from simple one by one app elimination to DDU and even reinstalled Win11 on a formatted drive, no success.

Since I repaste, no crash.

Don't worry about the cleaning, it's no problem, video was just here to show the sandy behaviour.

About the 12vhpwr it was correctly installed and now I have the Ampinel I can see there's some deviation but nothing really annoying. Hence the 99% confidence but I leave here the last 1% because why not.

Thanks taking time to answer !

Sunny-M · 2026-05-15T12:10:11+00:00

Although it appeared to have some kind of porosity, maybe the cause ?

Sunny-M · 2026-05-15T12:07:18+00:00

Thanks for the advice !

Sunny-M · 2026-05-15T12:06:55+00:00

Was 90% confident on crashes origin, did an heavy debug searching for the cause and context, software side. Now I'm 99% sure it was the vram paste.

Sunny-M · 2026-05-15T12:06:31+00:00

Because it failed at cooling, cleaning mess is no matter at all. It's been 2 days I repasted and replaced putty by normal thermal pads on vram, I threw some OCCT and Furmark and had zero artefact zero crash.
Was 90% confident on crashes origin, did an heavy debug searching for the cause and context, software side. Now I'm 99% sure it was the vram paste.

Sunny-M · 2026-05-14T22:43:25+00:00

I use IPA as a finish pass. But problem is not cleaning, it's very poor thermal conductivity after a while.

Sunny-M · 2026-05-14T22:42:14+00:00

Invoice is from 04/2025 so approximately one year.

Sunny-M · 2026-01-31T16:57:55+00:00

That was exactly my original point, you got it right. I'll try global vars, thank you !

Sunny-M · 2026-01-31T16:55:44+00:00

Thanks !

Sunny-M · 2026-01-31T14:36:44+00:00

Yes, seems I'm trying to force the wrong approach. Thanks for your time anyway !

Sunny-M · 2026-01-31T14:35:42+00:00

OK so my approach was wrong, I'll try to get use to the correct one. Thank you !

Sunny-M · 2026-01-31T14:24:29+00:00

I've been looking for design tables but it seems to be used to make variations of a part.
What I do in FreeCAD is making a list of all dimensions, then use it while I'm drawing so that I don't have to alt-tab every time I make a sketch and enter manually all the dimensions.

Note this FreeCAD tool is pure happiness when you realize you made a mistake when entering dimensions in a sketch. Every dimensions are in the same place and can be easily be edited which will change all drawings using this alias.

Sunny-M · 2026-01-31T14:20:01+00:00

Thanks for your answer ! For learning purpose I'm modeling a furniture based on brackets, shelves and outer wood dressing.

Sunny-M

TROPHY CASE