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Cleaned the overabundance of thermal goo from a Gigabyte Aero 5070 Ti - no wonder the stuff leaks out. Replacement pad sizes seemed fine, no hot spots.
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Cleaned the overabundance of thermal goo from a Gigabyte Aero 5070 Ti – no wonder the stuff leaks out. Replacement pad sizes seemed fine, no hot spots.

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This card was going to be vertically mounted, so it was at risk for thermal goo leakage. After I tore the card down I could see why Gigabyte's cards are having this issue. Pasted GPU die with PTM7950, VRAM took 1.5mm pads, and all the rest were 2mm. Cleaning took forever, but pretty straightforward otherwise.

8 Comments

  1. Socratatus

    Damn, they really, really wanted to make sure there was no excuse for over heating. Probably better for them to hedge this way than too little, I guess.

  3. theGRAYblanket

    Holy shit 

    But really I’m wondering why do they use paste if the pads that you are using is an option? 

    You should report back maybe after some time running it 

  5. NicoWayne95

    There is no hotspot sensor on 5000 series cards

  6. blazerMFT

    Tagging thread for future reference.

    I own this card too, but generally I think the situation is better on my end. Strange too as I had one of the early batches (2503).

    I was about to ask if you’ve seen any improvements but realized you tore it down straightaway.

    What brand of pads did you use and would you mind sharing how easy/hard the teardown process was?

    Thank you!

    EDIT: Also, do you mind to provide the approximate dimensions of the PTM you cut down to? Thanks!

    https://preview.redd.it/d17x6jerwkef1.jpeg?width=1164&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1046e7cfa04d622e7832f188dbbf5cfa275428bc

  7. null-interlinked

    Too much of that goo is not the reason it drips out. It is just not suitable for the task.

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