I'm 100% you can get more mh/s if you drop the power limit to 85%-90% from the get to, right now you dropped the temperature but you're still outputting a ton of heat which is hard for your GPU to manage, if you reduce the power limit just a bit you will be able to get higher memory clocks before crashing because your overall heat output will be lower to start with.

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I figured this.

Or even better record a video or a timelapse ;)

For ESD purposes also. Plus I dont know how easy those tiny resistors around the IHS is to pop off but don't want to find out. Pretty sure that little boo boo would void a warranty or two. I would guess the spudging tool would "give" while a metal object would pop it clean off into regions unknown. I use fancy toothpicks and a jeweler's glass for cleaning around tiny components.

wait so is the frosty ice cube pads good or bad?

@@ScooterPS They are incredible. Beyond words. At the price I paid, I cannot go back to other brands. I was able to drop my cards to the 80s on all of them and they never throttle or get high even in summer. It has been so good that I also decided to change my older cards and the drop in temperatures is phenomenal. A 5700 XT I had dropped like 30 degrees.

@@ScooterPS Now that I think about it, I might pick more up since its on sale right now. I just hope it will last as I have a few more cards coming in next month.

If they make their cards indestructible, we won't be able to kill them :)

Easy. Put on bad thermal pads, less GPU lifespan, more sales

@@scarysunburns7733 It's actually the other way around. Better thermal pads, like paste, degrade much faster than the lower performance variants, so assuming someone is going to chuck it into a hotbox and never maintain the card, the longer lasting thermal pads are a more realistic choice than the higher performing ones. Companies don't know the end use of the card, so this is the safest option.

Absolutely no problem doing upwards to +1300 mem, i am doing 0.787mV undervolt at 990 MHz, 46% PL, 100.9 MH/s @ 155watts :D

Do you have a list of thermal pads I should get for the xtreme 3080

How many cards?

@@Doozy95 after my server power supply upgrade I'm up to nine

@@nightwintertooth9502 and you've done this thermal pad mod to all cards and all dropped 10°c from previous highs?

@@nightwintertooth9502 I'm only asking cause I have a shitty gigabyte that I'm about to pad mod and hope I can fix it. Cause it's running 10°c hotter than any of my other cards.

@@Doozy95 When you do, I would recommend ARCTIC pads, they're the ones I use. Grab a digital measuring clamp and measure the thickness before you start pulling them off. I needed 0.5mm for my power amp chipset (because I've got older dual PCIe 4x2x2 (8x2) cards that need one), 1mm for underneath my mosfet plate, 1mm for my vram heatsink, and 2mm for my backplate. Take photos, record positions before removing components, be very very careful inside of your GPU. I would also recommend 99.7% scientific grade rubbing alcohol and arctic silver 5 thermal grease, as well as an m.2/m.3 gpu screw kit from eBay. I invested a good $200 in high quality tooling and materials before I started, and the output is grand. It dropped me from high 70s, to mid 60s on the kawpow algorithm, which is more intense than ethash by default, with my highest temp recorded on a refurbished card at 68, completely eliminating long-term thermal runaway. One of my cards WAS a gigabyte. I flipped it for another r9-390x, actually. They do suck, and under heavy thermal load, the backplate warps. I ran into this issue long-term with an AMD RX580 gigabyte, and a GTX1080 gigabyte, both backplates warped, and they began overheating again. Once that happens, its a repeat disassembly and rebending process that far outweighs keeping the card around and I would not recommend Gigabyte, even with a modded thermal pad, the build quality sucks in general because of the backplate warping issue. The only thing seriously worth getting a gigabyte over, is if you're actually using them to game, and want to put a nonref ekwb on them, water cooled, which eliminates the need to use their shitty backplate, fan shrouds or cooling hardware anyhow. MSI and ASUS are the best for air cooling for miners. Followed by Gigabyte, then EVGA at the top in performance when watercooling for gamers. Water cooling as a miner is usually really impractical because maintenance on a custom loop is a pita in a mining rig. (and maintenance is recommended once a month) Even with disconnect sockets on your PETG, its still a pain. I can get low 60s with water cooling, and I have with a soft PETG+EKWB+Bitspower+D5 high flow test, but its not even worth the price tag because of the maintenance just to drop to 57 degrees while mining and have all that humidity venting into your ambient. You need basically a radiator wall and a huge fan array to dissipate the amount of heat coming off of 9-12 cards efficiently. I stacked three XSPC 380mm rads to do that task, hated it because it was turning my shed into tropical paradise, ended up putting the fan shrouds back on. If you seriously want to try it out, though, you can get avg. 62 on kawpow by having the cards and risers in STE mineral oil in a filtered/circulating fish tank. No fan shrouds needed and you don't have to give a shit about shitty backplates, shrouds, or thermal pads at all. Just keeping a fish tank filter clean and preventing crystalization of the mineral oil on components. No more than 5 cards at a time per tank, or the accumulated heat wil make the oil boil at its low boiling point, which is bad, because its conductive when it boils. I got avg. 62 with a 5 card test in a fish tank full of STE, and its cheaper than watercooling. The cards I find on ebay with working PCB whose fan shrouds can't be rescued get dumped in my fish tank.

my friend! I have this same GPU... please What is the thickness of each thermal pad that I should place?

@@Ternoski Memory chips and back plate are all 2mm, the rest of the caps and mosfets are 1.5mm.

fucking awful

@Fifty Dinar I was thinking about the extra layers of adhesive insulating the heat from passing on to one another causing inefficiencies. If air is the issue, wouldn't a couple pin holes through the pads work? Sorry for looking a gift horse in the mouth. 😬 thanks again.

Thank you for the info. I have the Aorus Master and really been wanting to replace the shit pads.

Got any links to the specific ones you purchased? Tried looked on amazon for the ones you mentioned but there's a whole bunch of them.

Exactly man. Thank you for advice. I did it. Aorus Extreme RTX 3080 rev 1.0. Thermalright Odyssey 12.8w pads 2mm on the mem chips, under backplate 1mm core, other backplate somewhere 2.5-3mm pads. Mem T junction before 110°C with thermal throttling,gpu temp 51, after -mem T junction 78°C, gpu 58 (with more past on gpu chip because 2mm pads are to much). I used 2x1mm pads temporarily. In future i will use 1.5 mm on the mem chips. Interesting is also, that for my card are 6w pads on the memory chips totally useless. Temp memory raised again to 110°C. It doesn't matter if 1.5 mm, 2mm or brand Arctic or EC360 - 6w pads.

Drops it about 23-25c :)

If you use high quality thermal pads (12 w/mk+) you'll see a huge drop in temperatures. The stock Gigabyte thermalpads are like 1-3 wm/k at best and leak oil everywhere. Definitely worth replacing. Keep in mind that different RTX 3080 models are going to need different thermal pad sizes.

@@DantalionVR indeed, both my 3080's are from Gigabyte and both were drenched with Oil on and around the original pads, cant understand why they had to use the cheapest shit they could find and slap in on the card

@@Goldstar1337 "It's business"

@@Goldstar1337 BS

Electric contact cleaner gets it done. Blow with some air when clean

the paste usually needs to be replaced before pads. So you end up doing pads at the same time. Simply monitor performance and change out if hot. Maybe a 6 month schedule if mining to bulk replace on rigs. I usually schedule it based on install date so I'm not doing all of them at the same time.

Check your temps. Theres core sensor, vram sensor and hotspot sensor usually on a card. Ive for example noticed my hotspot temps be very hot to the point of my gpu crashing. Even though my core temp and vram temps were fine.

This applies to all gigabyte cards. Also some msi cards except suprim x from what I know. I got a suprim x 3090 and the backplate get 60 degrees celsius hot so I'm pretty sure it does transfer the heat away. Sadly my average temps for vram is around 96 celsius at about 124 MH/s. I could decrease it to 92-94 by lowering the MH to 110-115 but it doesn't seem to be worth it. Since therm throttling is at 110 I would say 96 stable is relatively fine. I got a 3 year warranty and if I open the card up (in Europe) I will lose my warranty so that's a no go.

​@@alexandruilea915 I have a MSI 3090 Suprim X too, as well as a Palit 3090 GamingPro OC. While the Suprim X is pretty good, to my surprise the Palit GamingPro manages 4-6*C lower VRAM temps under the same test conditions. I thought it would be the other way around. Not to mention it's a much more compact card, the same size as my 1080 Ti Founders Edition so it fits even in smaller cases. It doesn't even need the support bracket that comes with it while I had to use one for the Suprim X since it's so heavy and bulky. I am pretty impressed with the Palit 3090 GamingPro OC.

@@bgtubber same fan speed and noice? It could just be that it has a more accelerated fan curve so they spin up faster from lower temps.

​@@alexandruilea915 Yes, at same fan RPMs and noise. The Palit only gets noisier than the Suprim X when the fan speed is higher than 65% but it beats it in VRAM temps even then at equal fan RPMs.

@@bgtubber the suprim only gets really noisy after 75% so that's what I would consider audible.

2mm on both front an back? And all the small pads on the front around the heatsink? Can you confirm that please, I have to order out of country so I wanna do it right the first try. Thx!

@@LumenEtTempus 2mm front and back for GDDR6x only.

@@rafaelribeiro5771 Thanks

I bought this and Frosty Ice Cube Plus Thermal Pad - 12.8 W/mK from Amazon. Both have the same temps, but at 40% of the price of thermal rights.

how many packs did you use bro?

Where can you get the putty?

@@SonofaTech You can get the TG-PP-10 from Digikey and the K5 Pro from Ebay

Thanks been researching this

Would like to know as well! I have the same cards and planning on replacing 2mm inside and 3mm between memory and backplate

you can look up some of the manufators scematics for the card and that should tell you which thickness but some of them I haven't been able to find so just measured.

Great idea, thanks.