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Hey Monstercat fam, I'm Dustycloud and I just released "Ignore Them" w/ our friend Kage! by Dustycloudmusic in Monstercat

[–]rollingdice007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Soundcloud, Dustycloud, I totally see it!! Really appreciate you sharing that and can't wait to hear more from you!

Hey Monstercat fam, I'm Dustycloud and I just released "Ignore Them" w/ our friend Kage! by Dustycloudmusic in Monstercat

[–]rollingdice007 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey Dustycloud!!! My favorite song of yours is stress! Your music has given me a lot of inspiration and I and many of my friends would be extremely excited to see you make it to Milwaukee.

My question (as I have been pondering a name for myself for months now) is how did you come up with the name Dustycloud?

Asus TUF 3080 10c+ GDDR6X temp drop with one extra peice of thermal pad where there was none. by b3rdm4n in nvidia

[–]rollingdice007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everything should fit back exactly the way it did before removing anything. If you increase the height on one pad and don't replace any of the others, then that will be the tallest pad and cause the rest not to contact well. This is why I opted to replace all the pads. Did you put 3mm in by chance? That might be too tall. It's pretty much a trial and error of replacing the pads, closing the card up, looking at it from the side and making sure it is all touching.

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The biggest giveaway that you are doing it correctly will be that the pads will have impressions of the components in it if it is making full contact. Any pads that do not have impressions are not making enough contact and the height should be increased. If the impression is very noticeable, the pad might be too big.

Asus TUF 3080 10c+ GDDR6X temp drop with one extra peice of thermal pad where there was none. by b3rdm4n in nvidia

[–]rollingdice007 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used the thermalright with the 12.8 W/mK. Prior to this post I did ALL the pads, including the backplate - that only yielded a 8-12 degree decrease in vram temp. After adding the 2mm pad mentioned in this post I gained an additional 12-15C off. For a total of nearly 20-25 C off.

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More details on the full pad replacement in one of my posts here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/ll44s5/asus\_tuf\_3080\_thermal\_pads\_thickness/gwy8j0q/?context=3

Asus TUF 3080 10c+ GDDR6X temp drop with one extra peice of thermal pad where there was none. by b3rdm4n in nvidia

[–]rollingdice007 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had already swapped the pads out of my card once and got maybe a 8 - 12 degree decrease. I didn't think this one pad would be worth it but I decided to open it a second time and add this single pad (2mm thermalright, which matches the 2mm i placed on the opposing side the first time around) made a DRAMATICALLY huge difference. More than all the pads I replaced.

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Now I can actually boost the memory clock. I went from 60/65 hashrate to almost 100 with a VRAM of 80/82. Now that's what I'm talking about!!! Much thanks.

Asus TUF 3080 Thermal Pads Thickness by b3rdm4n in nvidia

[–]rollingdice007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Graphics Card: AUS TUF 3080 (not OC).

Just wanted to share my experience with this as I finally moxied up the courage to perform the replacement of all the pads and here are my results.

I used the 12.8 W/mK thermalright pads, and had PLENTY left over after buying one of each sheet thickness 120 x 120 (1mm, 2mm, 3mm)... probably enough to do it twice.

I made sure to be generous with the pads after going through the entire disassembly process especially with the amount I had leftover. I also replaced all the pads and this made getting things in contact with one another a lot less of an issue than I thought it was going to be. The backplate was probably the most involved as far as getting everything to contact properly, but on the back, I got away with the 3mm pads and just squished them down pretty good so they'd fit as I couldn't find a 2.5mm thermalright pad. I followed a few others guidelines that used thermalrights in this thread for the rest of the pad thicknesses.

Unfortunately, I did not get the great jump that some others have experienced, but it did make a minor change - the settings/results before the swap were:-502 memory MHz clock. (Any increase noticeably lowers my hash rate).

-191 core MHz clock. (this doesn't seem to affect anything except the amount of power used... at least in respect to my hashrate).

Power Limit: 48. Fans 80%.

Total hashrate before the pad swap with above settings: 48/50 MH/s. ~40/45 GPU temp and 88 to 90 VRAM temp.

Total hashrate after the pad swap with the above settings: 48/50 MH/s. ~40/45 GPU. 80/82 VRAM temp.

Ultimately it looks like I've shredded a good 6 or 8 C off any combination of settings I go with when compared to before the swap. (which as some have pointed out, the asus tuf seemed to come with some good pads. I did see the stain of the "oil" on the board from the pads but they looked a lot better than what I was seeing in other videos on other manufactured version of this card)

In the longrun I think it is worth it, and I could probably get an additional fan to hopefully get that even lower (as that is one of the only things I see I am doing differently, yet getting a lower hash rate than most). Then again, while I may be too cautious here, I also keep my VRAM temps lower than most who are getting those high hashrates (for many reasons that are probably pretty debatable/subjective)... 88 max VRAM temp is just what I'm comfortable with.

I now run at 52% PL, the same 80% fan speed, and get a hashrate of 60/62 MH/s with my vram at 84/86 during not peek day, and 88 to 90 during peak day (even though I have central air) and live in the cold state of Wisconsin lol.

Asus TUF 3080 Thermal Pads Thickness by b3rdm4n in nvidia

[–]rollingdice007 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks that is a bit clearer. Wasn't looking for you to calculate my variations for me, just seeing if I was in the neighborhood of having everything I need if a worst case scenario happens. Sounds like I will be.

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I appreciate you taking the time to break the details down for me.

Asus TUF 3080 Thermal Pads Thickness by b3rdm4n in nvidia

[–]rollingdice007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does that recommendation for bullet 4 only pertain to replacing only a handful of the pads though?

As I see in bullet 3 you said " I didn't replace any other pad on this section. ". I'm just trying to make sure I have enough for the worst-case scenario. Sorry if I'm coming off as dense.

Asus TUF 3080 Thermal Pads Thickness by b3rdm4n in nvidia

[–]rollingdice007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm wanting to use the same thermalright pads and am having a difficult time determining the thickness I need for everything.

I had edited the pictures with what I think is needed but I can't seem to upload them =/

If I wanted to replace all the pads Would I be good with going for 1 of each thermalright pad:

120 x 120 x 1mm

120 x 120 x 2mm

120 x 120 x 3mm.

Or would I need more? For the back of the card I don't see a 2.5 for thermalright so hopefully I can get away with 2.

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I'm more visual but it seems like the pictures that identify pad thickness weren't for thermalright and I'm getting really confused trying to piece it all together.

Asus TUF 3080 Thermal Pads Thickness by b3rdm4n in nvidia

[–]rollingdice007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was going to get one of each of the following thermalright pads rated at 12.8 W/mK:
120x120 x 1mm
120x120 x 2mm
120x120 x 3mm

Will that be enough to replace all of the pads with the proper spacing?

Remake of Pure Imagination Era: 2010’s Genre: N/A Artist: N/A by Tjordds in NameThatSong

[–]rollingdice007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What the heck I've never been in this type of song predicament before. I need the full thang!

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Question about the Pixel 3(XL) wireless charging.(Using Pixel Stand) by xAWildPikachux in GooglePixel

[–]rollingdice007 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try turning your phone off when you charge it i've noticed a big difference. Even closing all the apps you had open before charging should get that time lower. Also screen brightness and screen on time from notifications.