Question 2080 Ti Thermals questions

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I decided to be a bit of an idiot in the hopes to reduce the temperatures on my 2080 Ti, swapping the stock paste for Conductonaut. Fun thing, but I ended up damaging some of the thermal pads by accident taking the card apart... Would anyone happen to know what thermal pads I could buy to replace them? The card I specifically have is the Gigabyte Aorus 2080 Ti Xtreme Waterforce WB.
https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N208TAORUSX-WB-11GC#kf

Also, should I even consider keeping this waterblock or get something else? I'm not really sure what is actually best for a 2080 Ti, this just looked the best in terms of visuals considering how much more surface seems to be used in heat dissipation. I could be wrong, don't know. I'm not big into overclocking because I'd rather have complete stability and less noise. Thermals before the thermal pad damage were amazing, 2090 boost and with the power limit set to 122% and under load hit about 105-115F.

On top of a new waterblock, are there better thermal pads in general to buy? And by better I mean something that can really reduce the temps. Same for the paste, currently using Kryonaut (conductonaut seemed to have some issues - card wouldn't register in bios.)

Finally, at least for now, does anyone know the life span of Conductonaut? I'm using it with my i7 8700k (clocked at 4.9) and RockItCool's custom IHS ontop of it and under it. It's reduced my thermals by an insane margin, but I am still worried one day I'll turn it on only to smell fried electronics. Would be good to know if there's any issues with this stuff down the line in 6 months or so.

 

[rubix_1011]

105F = 40.5C
115F = 46C

These are great temps at load, what made you think that replacing the thermal compound would make this better?

I would ask what the rest of your watercooling loop consists of, but that really doesn't matter - you already had really good load temps.

 

[recordsrecorded]

105F = 40.5C
115F = 46C

These are great temps at load, what made you think that replacing the thermal compound would make this better?

I would ask what the rest of your watercooling loop consists of, but that really doesn't matter - you already had really good load temps.

Well the temps now I mean they are fine, even with the damaged thermal pads. And primochill cloud white concentrate. On note, the thermals sit around 130-145F and my GPU crashes games out once it hits 134F. That's my problem. I actually need to lower them because of the thermal pad damage, and don't know anything about thermal pads.

 

[Gmoney06ss]

134f is only @57c. There is absolutely no reason you should have crashing issues at those temps. I'd start looking elsewhere for an issue. Unless the pads are completely missing, they're probably still doing an ok job. It almost sounds like a power delivery/overclock issue rather than a thermal issue. 2280mhz is crazy high for such low temps. Even the kingpin has issues reaching those clocks stable on water.

Also as an aside, use Celsius when measuring pc component temps, nobody speaks Fahrenheit when it comes to this stuff. Even us Americans.

 

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The problem only came up when I damaged the thermal pads. Never had an issue before, and I know it's the GPU because I never went over 47C. Ever. Now the second I hit 51C, crash. Sometimes even my whole PC just shuts down. I would've gone for power draw too, but I have more than enough to compensate for that. No less though I still need info on these thermal pads, I just don't have any idea to this. I don't care about my thermals being acceptable, I'm looking for repair info desperately. I've yet to find any info with google for gigabyte's pad dimensions, reached out to them and they just gave me the card's specs.. Nothing on pads and then told me I voided my warranty by replacing the thermal paste and now closed my ticket even though I never asked for warranty repair. I got nothing now, even worse is the waterblock isn't something from EK or some other well known brand for water cooling so I have no idea how accurate that info is. Nor do I know if all 2080 Ti cards are the same for Gigabyte so those dimensions really are important for me. Hard typo too, 2090 is my boost clock.

 

[Gmoney06ss]

Thermal grizzly has sizes ranging from .5mm-2mm, in .5mm increments. They're not at all cheap, but perform very well in my short read about them. You may want to give them a shot. Iirc my Ek uses 1 and 1.5mm, though that's from memory and may be incorrect. But the install instructions are on there site and and may be worth a download/read. You could attempt to measure your current pads,but that may prove difficult. I also don't know how accurate the ek info will be to you, but worth a try. Desperate times, ya know.

 

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Somehow I didn't know thermal grizzly had thermal pads. Never went to their website though, let alone heard of it. Only knew about the pastes, liquid metal and that ridiculous graphite pad. Thanks for that info.