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Who needs thermal pads when you can drown it in paste, right? Cleaned and fixed this RTX 2060 Super Gigabyte Windforce OC V1.0 with proper pads (sizes in the comments)
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Who needs thermal pads when you can drown it in paste, right? Cleaned and fixed this RTX 2060 Super Gigabyte Windforce OC V1.0 with proper pads (sizes in the comments)

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I didn’t have the original thermal pad thickness references, so I tested with 0.5mm and 1mm pads until I got good contact and even pressure. Seems to be working fine now! (No markings on the thermal pads? That’s because I swapped in fresh ones for the final setup.)

31 Comments

  2. tankersss

    For me thermal paste pads worked better than og ones (and ones people on forums claimed to be the way were like $20 for a pack for 1-2 repad) and it costed me like $4 for 2-3 use bottle.

  4. divergentchessboard

    fun fact thermal paste once it reaches a certain level of thickness acts more as an insulator rather than a conductor of heat. it primarily exists to fill in micro air gaps between two surfaces. thats why you use copper shims otherwise known as “copper mods” sandwiched between thermal paste, and why thermal putty/pads exist

  5. Linkitch

    Please tell me it didn’t look like that from the factory.

  6. hachi_roku_

    Oh dear. Wake up one day to suddenly find out your GPU has had actual diarrhea

  7. rain3h

    4 is before or after?

    If after get some ptm7950.

    No pump out and took 20c off my hotspot.

    People say don’t put it on CPU ihs but it took 13c off my load temps compared to noctua nt-h2.

    It’s magic.

    Just make sure it’s legit stuff.

  10. wantilles1138

    I just put a watercooling block on my Gigabyte 5080 and it looked the same. Good lord, Gigabyte, what are you doing?

  11. Kruxf

    Gd and still hitting 82c. These cards were garbage. I have 3 2080 ti’s and I hate them. They are loud and hot.

  15. Nearby-Plant-6491

    Seriously this cake of putty originally made by gigabyte ?

  16. Scar1203

    I feel like whoever did this is now working for Gigabyte and is responsible for their current thermal gel application procedures.

  19. Stokehall

    I’m curious having recently cleaned paste from CPU Pins for a customer, what did you use to clean all that paste off?

  23. spiderout233

    I actually used the paste on VRAM chips, and it worked wondefully! 56 degrees on idle, and 70 degrees max. Hotspot and GPU temp also dropped from 107 to 91 (hotspot, GPU temp dropped from 70 to 63).

    While this definitely isn’t optimal, it works lol.

    It was a GIGABYTE 5700XT for those who will wonder (yes, who will wonder.)

  24. PlzDntBanMeAgan

    My 7900xtx is looking like the first pic right now. In a box because I was scared it was not good enough or something. I applaud your patience and determination.

  26. Decends2

    I’m guessing that the previous owner used non conductive thermal paste?

  27. apachelives

    Did you do a before and after for temperatures? Curious how it went with a much wider thermal transfer area regardless of how thick and inefficient it was.

  28. kaynpayn

    I had 2 of those cards.

    That variant from gigabyte is terrible. RMAd it thinking it was my unit’s problem and got another one, same.

    Performance wise, it’s a 2060super, nothing to say about that.

    It’s what’s around it that is crap. Fans make random weird noises (sound like an HDD, weird buzzing, etc.), regardless how fast they were going. They’re the lowest garbage they could find, I’ve never seen any fan at all, even cheap Chinese fans, being so bad.

    The heatsink doesn’t look too bad but ends up being terrible too. Would almost instantly get to 80c even if I wasn’t pushing it too hard. Could get to 90 without much effort.

    I replaced the fans for 2 noctua 92′ (they were the perfect size). I later repasted it too (no one shat the bed like in op’s pics though lol). Solved the noise issue (the noctuas are amazing), did nothing to get it running cooler.

    Replaced it as soon as I could, got an MSI 3070 Trio after and it was a massive difference, barely makes any noise and goes around 60c full load.

    The gigabyte windforce 20 series is atrocious.

  29. I-LOVE-TURTLES666

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  30. awake283

    Just when you think you’ve seen it all.

  31. LazySilverSquid

    Customer states: “I paid for the whole tube, so I’m going to use the who tube.”

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