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Just in case anyone need: I replaced my thermal paste today. My strix 2080ti’s long pad turned out to be 1.5 mm thick. The one under the chip is 1mm to my best guess. I decided not to replace them cause they are still cool as ice and the green factory pads seem to be one of the best.
Just yesterday I decided to disassemble my GPU again to see how much pressure/ contact the VRM's made with the thermal pad. I noticed that the thermal pad, which I used in this video with a thickness of 1mm, was a bit to thin, thus I replaced it with a 1,5mm thick one, which should be the same thickness as the ones straight from ASUS. Also the question: where do you have another thermal pad under the chip on the PCB, which you mentioned has a thickness of 1mm? Both the Strix 2080, 2080 super as well as the 2080ti should have the same PCB layout.
Good morning, I have the same video card. I would like to know the measurements of the thermal pads since I have to do the maintenance and I don't know how to order it.
@@angelominer1812 Good morning. Did you end up finding it? I have the same graphics card and I'm also looking for which pad to buy based on the thickness needed.
This video was a life saver. I have the same card. It was very noisy during games and I thought it's normal... until I checked the temps. Hotspot 108 C I opened it up and to my surprize, the thermal paste on the gpu was all but gone. A blob of MX-4 later, the temps dropped by 40 C to a much cooler and normal 67 C So, a big thank you.
opened mine a few weeks ago, had the same temperatures as you. to my surprise my GPU only had 2/3 of it covered with thermal paste (which was also old and grainy), the last third was beneath the gpu -___-
Dang it makes me wanna do this even more. My card is from 2018. Same asus 2080. Guess I really need to open it up and replace it. I’m getting temperature problems while gaming some days.
So my 2080 strix got a few weeks hitting high temps but never notice until it became colder here, the GPU ran for 4 years of work as now. Got to change thermal paste too and the pads as well, since many dunno the thickness and size, I wanna post them here (using cm as measurement): Long pad (near cooler): 1.5mm thick x 10.7cm long x 1.8cm wide On pcb near the die: (All of them are 1mm thick) -1.2cm x 3.2cm -3cm x 1.2cm -6.1cm x 1.5cm Thank me later if ya need to change them, my temps went down 30°C after t.p. change and pads
The proper sizes to purchase for the asus rog strix 2080ti thermal pad replacement are 120 x 20 x 1.5 mm for the longer vrm pad and 120 x 20 x 1 mm for the 3 shorter vram pads. For the 1.5 mm vrm pad, you do need the full 120 mm length to have a one piece replacement. There is also another set of chips to the left of the cpu that need a 1 mm pad. The frame sits on them too, making the total # of pads = 5. Right now, Gelid Solutions GP-Ultimate 15W is the best thermal pad on the market, from what I've seen. They sell on amazon and come with 2 pads per pack which is enough to do the job. The model #'s are tp-vp04-r-b for the 1 mm and tp-vp04-r-c for the 1.5 mm.
+1 Replaced the paste and pads in my ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2080 O8G GPU. (Jesus, what a mouthful. Putting the full card name so that others can find this video.) As others have mentioned, you'll need 1.5mm and 1.0mm pads, the 1.5mm pad to replace the long strip that goes next to the heatsink, as seen in this video, and 1.0mm pads for the memory chips. The memory chips are under the black bracket surrounding the GPU itself. Gamers Nexus have a tear down of the 2080 Ti which demonstrates how to remove the bracket. I used Thermalright Valor Odin thermal pads, and Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme thermal paste. I'm seeing a 50°C drop in hot spot temps (!), and a 20-30°C drop in GPU temps.
I've gone from 75 degrees Celsius to 62, and from 105 degrees hot spot to 75. I have used Noctua NT-H2 as thermal paste and as thermal pads Gelid GP-Ultimate 1mm for the vmem-vcore memories and 1.5mm for the long strip.
Wuoah. . . I had no idea how easy it is to disassemble the GPU-Card in order to put some new paste on it, this will come in handy! Though I´m havin the 1080 ti OC variant, I´m way more confident in doing it by myself now. - Thank´s mate. =)
I replaced the thermal pads and thermal paste on my ASUS ROG Strix RTX 2080 OC graphics card today. I used NAB Cooling Supermax thermal pads and Noctua NT-H2 thermal paste. For the thermal pad thickness, I used 1.0 mm on the memory chips and 1.5 mm on the Mosfet and COILs. The temperature reduction was dramatic. For the GPU temperature, it dropped from 83.9C to 61C. The GPU Hot Spot temperature dropped from 107.1C to 72.1C. The memory temperature dropped from 91.3C to 68.9C. I used Unigen Heaven to run the benchmarks. Pretty impressive results for an hour's worth of work.
@@mirzagalib8984 The NAB Cooling Supermax thermal pads are 90mm x 50mm. I bought one each for 1.0mm and 1.5mm thickness. It was more than enough to cover the memory chips, mosfets and coils.
I realized my 2080ti was throttling for some reason even though the core temp never got higher than 68c. The software I was using (NZXTCAM) wasn't showing me enough according to reddit, so I started using hwmonitor. I immediately noticed my mem temp and hotspot were 107c. Opened up the card to replace paste and pads. Assumed it was the pads more than paste because the mem temp was the hotspot. But lo and behold my factory applied thermal paste was the tiniest lil dried glob that covered half the surface and had dried to basically sand. Now my hotspot is 67c (memory) after a few hours playing apex @180fps. Core temp never hits 60 now and Im able to keep stable framerate/times for the entire session. Thank you so much for this quick/easy tutorial 🙏
@@iMimz Didnt have to swap pads. When I opened my card, the thermal paste was a tiny dried glob covering maybe a quarter of the die. I could tell that the paste was the issue so I decided not to mess with the pads. Changing pads should only be done if new thermal paste doesnt fix the heat issue. Replacing pads can be a bit tricky as all pads have different density. Its easy to have pads not be squishy enough or too squishy which then causes different issues. I ordered Gelid Ultimate 1.5mm but did not actually use them so I cant say if they work, but thats what my reddit research told me to buy.
@@bealight5141 i see still have the doubt if they're broken or unusable when i'll open it up , so would like to know which thickness incase so i can buy before lol
They do, but this person didn't go that far either because he's a convenient user or because he simply doesn't know that ASUS deliberately doesn't put thermal pads in the necessary parts.
I replaced the thermal paste and pad in the same card today. Before I had constant 105 C hotspot temperature but the card never crashed. After the new paste everything seemed fine at first temps were down 30 C but then I had a black screen and now I can't boot anymore.
have had a nightmare of a time finding out which thermal pads I need to replace them when i tear down my card. Literally no info on this. EKWB has specs for a water block but is unclear if that was just for the block or if it works on the stock cooler as well. Is the 120x20x1 the only one ill need? thank you for posting this video.
I was wondering why is the memory cooling so poor on these RTX Strix versions, when a ASUS Dual fan has straight memory contact with entire cooler, Why did they use this method to cool the memory, My RTX 2070 Super hotspot is 80C easily after 15minutes. Not even the coils are cooled. I don't understand the thoughts behind this strix versions. It seems like it became worse.
The thermal paste on my RTX 2080 S was extreme dry i replaced only the thermal paste and the temps got ~15°C cooler. I think for a 3 years old graphiccard it has to be done.
you should only do this when you're out of warranty, if you're that scared. This is literally just reapplying thermal paste/pads like in CPU. They only want you to break your warranty cuz you would have to pay to fix it later, whereas its like 30 min work even for beginner while being careful with not breaking pads, although if its an old card they might be damaged anyway cuz of usage/wear etc.
Hello there. What is the size and thickness of the thermal pad that you are using in this video? Tried to find about 2080 but only 2080Ti is all that I could find. Thanks a lot
Hey, the Thermal Pads are the same size and thickness as they are on the Strix 2080ti. I ordered a thickness of 0,5; 1 and 1,5mm but used the 1mm thick ones since ,5mm was too thin. Though i assume the 1,5mm should work fine as well.
@@TheOneAndOnly_skiF Nope, the Strix 2080 Ti uses 1,5mm for the "upper" VRM (the one in visible in this video) and 1mm for VRAM + "lower" VRM (under the middle plate that was never removed in this video), and as far as I'm aware it's the same for both Strix 2080 and Strix 2080 Ti (except the Strix 2080 doesn't appear to have any "lower" VRM to cool). The reason I'm sure of that is because I just replaced them all on a Strix 2080 Ti an hour ago.
@@KromeBtw 1,5mm for the VRM visible in your video and 1mm for the VRAM (and the same for the secondary VRM that Strix 2080 Ti has) under the middle plate that you didn't remove.
@@NameyNames I'm not saying you're wrong, but that was what I found and it was correct information, at least for the 2080 version, not Ti. I guess the lesson here is always do your own due diligence.
It might help if you notice that you GPU is throtteling due to high temperatures but in my case (pun intended) i did it to reduce the noise of the GPU since it runs on lower temps now
Just in case anyone need: I replaced my thermal paste today. My strix 2080ti’s long pad turned out to be 1.5 mm thick. The one under the chip is 1mm to my best guess. I decided not to replace them cause they are still cool as ice and the green factory pads seem to be one of the best.
Just yesterday I decided to disassemble my GPU again to see how much pressure/ contact the VRM's made with the thermal pad. I noticed that the thermal pad, which I used in this video with a thickness of 1mm, was a bit to thin, thus I replaced it with a 1,5mm thick one, which should be the same thickness as the ones straight from ASUS. Also the question: where do you have another thermal pad under the chip on the PCB, which you mentioned has a thickness of 1mm? Both the Strix 2080, 2080 super as well as the 2080ti should have the same PCB layout.
@@KromeBtw yep you have to disassemble the steel plate (square-shape) around the chip.
i think are you vietnamese people :))
Good morning, I have the same video card. I would like to know the measurements of the thermal pads since I have to do the maintenance and I don't know how to order it.
@@angelominer1812 Good morning. Did you end up finding it? I have the same graphics card and I'm also looking for which pad to buy based on the thickness needed.
This video was a life saver.
I have the same card. It was very noisy during games and I thought it's normal... until I checked the temps.
Hotspot 108 C
I opened it up and to my surprize, the thermal paste on the gpu was all but gone.
A blob of MX-4 later, the temps dropped by 40 C to a much cooler and normal 67 C
So, a big thank you.
opened mine a few weeks ago, had the same temperatures as you. to my surprise my GPU only had 2/3 of it covered with thermal paste (which was also old and grainy), the last third was beneath the gpu -___-
Dang it makes me wanna do this even more. My card is from 2018. Same asus 2080. Guess I really need to open it up and replace it. I’m getting temperature problems while gaming some days.
So my 2080 strix got a few weeks hitting high temps but never notice until it became colder here, the GPU ran for 4 years of work as now.
Got to change thermal paste too and the pads as well, since many dunno the thickness and size, I wanna post them here (using cm as measurement):
Long pad (near cooler): 1.5mm thick x 10.7cm long x 1.8cm wide
On pcb near the die: (All of them are 1mm thick)
-1.2cm x 3.2cm
-3cm x 1.2cm
-6.1cm x 1.5cm
Thank me later if ya need to change them, my temps went down 30°C after t.p. change and pads
Thank you!
thanks man, the measures you wrote saved me
@@mobafe anytime, need someone to finally pull them out xD
@@gabrieleughetto3760 no prob
thank you
The proper sizes to purchase for the asus rog strix 2080ti thermal pad replacement are 120 x 20 x 1.5 mm for the longer vrm pad and 120 x 20 x 1 mm for the 3 shorter vram pads. For the 1.5 mm vrm pad, you do need the full 120 mm length to have a one piece replacement. There is also another set of chips to the left of the cpu that need a 1 mm pad. The frame sits on them too, making the total # of pads = 5. Right now, Gelid Solutions GP-Ultimate 15W is the best thermal pad on the market, from what I've seen. They sell on amazon and come with 2 pads per pack which is enough to do the job. The model #'s are tp-vp04-r-b for the 1 mm and tp-vp04-r-c for the 1.5 mm.
+1 Replaced the paste and pads in my ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2080 O8G GPU. (Jesus, what a mouthful. Putting the full card name so that others can find this video.) As others have mentioned, you'll need 1.5mm and 1.0mm pads, the 1.5mm pad to replace the long strip that goes next to the heatsink, as seen in this video, and 1.0mm pads for the memory chips. The memory chips are under the black bracket surrounding the GPU itself. Gamers Nexus have a tear down of the 2080 Ti which demonstrates how to remove the bracket. I used Thermalright Valor Odin thermal pads, and Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme thermal paste. I'm seeing a 50°C drop in hot spot temps (!), and a 20-30°C drop in GPU temps.
thanks!
Correct, and the Strix 2080 Ti additionally has a secondary VRM which uses an 1.0mm thick thermal pad (same thickness as for VRAM).
@@NameyNames Good to know 🙏
I've gone from 75 degrees Celsius to 62, and from 105 degrees hot spot to 75.
I have used Noctua NT-H2 as thermal paste and as thermal pads Gelid GP-Ultimate 1mm for the vmem-vcore memories and 1.5mm for the long strip.
Wuoah. . . I had no idea how easy it is to disassemble the GPU-Card in order to put some new paste on it, this will come in handy! Though I´m havin the 1080 ti OC variant, I´m way more confident in doing it by myself now. - Thank´s mate. =)
I replaced the thermal pads and thermal paste on my ASUS ROG Strix RTX 2080 OC graphics card today. I used NAB Cooling Supermax thermal pads and Noctua NT-H2 thermal paste. For the thermal pad thickness, I used 1.0 mm on the memory chips and 1.5 mm on the Mosfet and COILs. The temperature reduction was dramatic. For the GPU temperature, it dropped from 83.9C to 61C. The GPU Hot Spot temperature dropped from 107.1C to 72.1C. The memory temperature dropped from 91.3C to 68.9C. I used Unigen Heaven to run the benchmarks. Pretty impressive results for an hour's worth of work.
Can you please tell the length of the thermal pad needed?
@@mirzagalib8984 The NAB Cooling Supermax thermal pads are 90mm x 50mm. I bought one each for 1.0mm and 1.5mm thickness. It was more than enough to cover the memory chips, mosfets and coils.
nice job. Just curious, how old was the original pads? Were they already oily too a bit?
@@raptor024 I bought the card new 3 years ago. There was a little bit of oil from the pads but not an excessive amount.
@@vIpEr009S grazie.
How many celsius degree did it drop may I ask?
wow this is an amazing video. i think ill be replacing my thermal paste on my gigabyte rtx 2080 oc :-) wish me luck
I realized my 2080ti was throttling for some reason even though the core temp never got higher than 68c. The software I was using (NZXTCAM) wasn't showing me enough according to reddit, so I started using hwmonitor. I immediately noticed my mem temp and hotspot were 107c. Opened up the card to replace paste and pads. Assumed it was the pads more than paste because the mem temp was the hotspot. But lo and behold my factory applied thermal paste was the tiniest lil dried glob that covered half the surface and had dried to basically sand. Now my hotspot is 67c (memory) after a few hours playing apex @180fps. Core temp never hits 60 now and Im able to keep stable framerate/times for the entire session. Thank you so much for this quick/easy tutorial 🙏
having the same problem with 2080 ti oc strix,hotspot goes at 107 with likely any game, you used 1.5 mm pads?
@@iMimz Didnt have to swap pads. When I opened my card, the thermal paste was a tiny dried glob covering maybe a quarter of the die. I could tell that the paste was the issue so I decided not to mess with the pads. Changing pads should only be done if new thermal paste doesnt fix the heat issue. Replacing pads can be a bit tricky as all pads have different density. Its easy to have pads not be squishy enough or too squishy which then causes different issues. I ordered Gelid Ultimate 1.5mm but did not actually use them so I cant say if they work, but thats what my reddit research told me to buy.
@@bealight5141 i see still have the doubt if they're broken or unusable when i'll open it up , so would like to know which thickness incase so i can buy before lol
i'll order 1.5 too as i've seen many commented that 1.5 is the one
also thanks anyway amd hopefully only thermal paste will do the trick ^^
I am doing this today on my 2080S. I have not done this since purchasing the card
what a fucking nice video, thanks for all the info my boy
Noti! Pretty clean video!
Krome on the video grind?
Hi, do you know the thickness of the VRAM thermal pads? the ones you didn't change, ty
im wondering that too
1mm for VRAM + secondary VRM (the primary VRM in the video uses 1,5mm)
Clean vid my guy
Thanks!
What about the thermal pads underneith the plastic shroud? Don't they also need to be replaced or checked?
They do, but this person didn't go that far either because he's a convenient user or because he simply doesn't know that ASUS deliberately doesn't put thermal pads in the necessary parts.
and what about the thermal pad thickness under the metal bracket ?
1mm thick
nicely done
If I can afford the price, can I use thermal paste to replace thermal pads?
in most cases - NO
(in this case I would against it - if money is that limited I would recommend only a repaste & leave the pads ;) )
What is the size of thermal pad ?
I replaced the thermal paste and pad in the same card today. Before I had constant 105 C hotspot temperature but the card never crashed. After the new paste everything seemed fine at first temps were down 30 C but then I had a black screen and now I can't boot anymore.
Did you fix it?
@@abbasov9238 yes, I used the old thermalpads again and just replaced the thermal paste.
2 of the screws for me where stuck, just turns freely. Ended up having to buy a new system, wish I would have been as easy for me as in the vid :(
have had a nightmare of a time finding out which thermal pads I need to replace them when i tear down my card. Literally no info on this. EKWB has specs for a water block but is unclear if that was just for the block or if it works on the stock cooler as well. Is the 120x20x1 the only one ill need? thank you for posting this video.
120x20x1.5 *
@@TheOneAndOnly_skiF ty, figured it out a while ago, but i really appreciate it. thank you
@@one_eyed_guilly7016 which ones you used?
Is it necessary to replace the thermal pads?
When you break them while opening the card with little care, or when they are no longer soft and flexible because of aging.
thank you
thanks
I was wondering why is the memory cooling so poor on these RTX Strix versions, when a ASUS Dual fan has straight memory contact with entire cooler, Why did they use this method to cool the memory, My RTX 2070 Super hotspot is 80C easily after 15minutes. Not even the coils are cooled. I don't understand the thoughts behind this strix versions. It seems like it became worse.
I was scared when my temperature was hotspot 95 (gpu 75), it turns out that some people here have much higher temperatures. (Strix 2080 video card)
I have the same version but 3060 ti, what are the measurements of the Thermal Pads?
3060 Ti isn't the same version, or tier, let alone generation... This video was definitely not for you...
what about the pad on the back? shouldnt you replace it too?
The thermal paste on my RTX 2080 S was extreme dry
i replaced only the thermal paste and the temps got ~15°C cooler.
I think for a 3 years old graphiccard it has to be done.
Same here I like to replace my thermal paste once a year though
for this video card not first time change thermo paste
who will change the thermal pads of the ram memory?!?
hello bro i have a question about the fans of this gpu could u DM me please or where can i dm u and thanks you sweet video
I would never dare to do this
Me neither
Unfortunately it breaks you warranty as well which means you are screwed if you mess up :D
you should only do this when you're out of warranty, if you're that scared. This is literally just reapplying thermal paste/pads like in CPU. They only want you to break your warranty cuz you would have to pay to fix it later, whereas its like 30 min work even for beginner while being careful with not breaking pads, although if its an old card they might be damaged anyway cuz of usage/wear etc.
Rog strix 2080 SUPER - Thermal Pads: VRM -1,5мм; memory -1,25мм (😀).. official Asus
Hey, could you tell me where exactly you found that information?
mx5 noooooooooo😰
Hello there.
What is the size and thickness of the thermal pad that you are using in this video?
Tried to find about 2080 but only 2080Ti is all that I could find.
Thanks a lot
Hey, the Thermal Pads are the same size and thickness as they are on the Strix 2080ti. I ordered a thickness of 0,5; 1 and 1,5mm but used the 1mm thick ones since ,5mm was too thin. Though i assume the 1,5mm should work fine as well.
1.5mm is used for the entire Strix PCB, according to a response I found through google
@@TheOneAndOnly_skiF Nope, the Strix 2080 Ti uses 1,5mm for the "upper" VRM (the one in visible in this video) and 1mm for VRAM + "lower" VRM (under the middle plate that was never removed in this video), and as far as I'm aware it's the same for both Strix 2080 and Strix 2080 Ti (except the Strix 2080 doesn't appear to have any "lower" VRM to cool).
The reason I'm sure of that is because I just replaced them all on a Strix 2080 Ti an hour ago.
@@KromeBtw 1,5mm for the VRM visible in your video and 1mm for the VRAM (and the same for the secondary VRM that Strix 2080 Ti has) under the middle plate that you didn't remove.
@@NameyNames I'm not saying you're wrong, but that was what I found and it was correct information, at least for the 2080 version, not Ti. I guess the lesson here is always do your own due diligence.
does this like help fps?
It might help if you notice that you GPU is throtteling due to high temperatures but in my case (pun intended) i did it to reduce the noise of the GPU since it runs on lower temps now