@@hzr815 He also doesn't mention the size of the pads he tried. I've read that 0.5mm pads are the right size for between the heat sync and the black plate. The ThermalRight Odyssey pads have a maybe 40% more heat transfer than Arctic Silver 5. I'm thinking pads might actually be better. I'm going to try it this weekend.
I just tried 0.5mm pads. The VRAM was down to 80 from 108, but the hot spot temp and GPU temps got up to 103 and 90, respectively. Redoing with just thermal paste and I'm down to normal gpu) hotspot temps but down to 90C on the VRAM. I'll try the pads again, though, as they should be better...
Hmmm. I wish I coul have seen more about how to apply the pads/past. Is there a good forum or reddit post about this? Side note. Don't care about cost. I want the highest quality pads/paste for my baby!
we see the thermal paste application on the gpu die but no footage of the application on the specific places he mentions. I really wanted to see too since I'm expecting the a similar system to arrive soon.
Fujipoly ....is what you want bud, replaced my x299x gigabyte boards pads to those pink ones a hair thicker as well, GREAT difference! I put it under the boards VRM as well as the obviously changed = under the VRM heatsink as my particular board has a backplate so it squeezed it in place something perfect, it DEF makes a diff just take time...
so only paste on the metal cooler part around the processor and on the processor (no pads)? Then replace pads on the other side so that the memory chips make contact with pads and the top metal plate? Why not show this process since people will probably pour too much paste on the metal? Also 94c VRAM with 100% fans hmmm. wouldn't that typically be just 6-10c more stock at that fan speed? Not trying to be entitled here but I was really looking forward to a detailed process video as to learn from your mistakes.
I did the mod and works perfect. 110c thermal throttled pretty much anytime I tried to mine- did the mod, paste and pads and now I run 90-96c overlocked mining ether hashing high 90s.
I ended up doing this and dropped down to 80-86c depending on ambient (100% fan) . I used Noctua H2 compound since it is non conductive. I did not change thermal pads.
I just added Thermal Paste only and the temps went from 110 with the fans at 100% to 92 with fans at 65%. I used Kryonaut Extreme thermal paste. About 3g is what covered everything. I skipped the pads.
Those alienware suffocation boxes just are horrible,moving all the crap out of one into a new case litterally lowers ALL temps Mobo cpu gpu ram and board temps drop 20deg.Stock everything was 73deg I got everything down to 47-55deg Celsius from the new case.The standoffs I had to modify but it worked.
It's always funny when the community fixes a giant companies defective product. Usually using simple methods too. Just look at oem PC's. Most of them still got shit airflow.
Can you share the specific model of heatsinks for R12 and the water cooler fan to buy on Amazon and if is possible a video to replace or add the second top fan, please. you're awesome in your videos, just these smalls details will be useful to replicate your advice.
Yeah, these videos leave A LOT to be desired in the way of showing people what you actually did step-by-step. I put pads on mine without paste. I used 1.0mm pads under the metal plate from the pcb/mem chips up to touch the metal plate. They honestly didn't look at thick as the stock ones to me, but my temps definitely went from 110 down to the 95-100c area while mining on 75% fans. I put 0.5mm pads between the metal plate and the actual heatstink (where he took the stickers off and applied thermal paste). I'm thinking maybe I should use thicker pads in both spots but I didn't want to risk pushing the heatsink too far off of the gpu core. I have seen others say they used paste too but I thought the gap was too large for paste? Maybe it's just me but I always thought pads were recommended for these larger gaps? I didn't even use fancy pads just the cheap blue ones on amazon that were 6-7w/mk. I'm pretty sure the pads he bought had double the heat transfer capacity and should perform even better.
@@mohcinetiguenza6208 but i just realized.. we have different cards .. I have the founder edition .. im sure all cards are built basically the same with just different coolers
I didn't see any mention in your video about adjusting fan speed via the Alienware Command Center app - it took me a bit as the UI is terrible, but if you go to the temp tab (fan speed) and click just to the left of the offset on your current profile you can crank those fans up for when you are mining. Granted this makes the machine hella loud (new quieter fans on their way) but it did drop temps a bit more. Sorry if redundant or a "duh" moment, but squeezing out any additional temp reduction is always a good thing for mining. Great video by the way - I love your setup!
Nothing on you buddy, it’s just so sad that they would actually charge you so much and you have to try to correct Alienwares sad attempt at building a gaming desktop. If you buy a prebuilt I feel it should come operational out of the box, not thermal throttling at idol. If you ever need help building your own rig let me know, I’ve been building rigs since the early 90’s.
do you know if i can change the cpu cooling, mine does not have watercooling, so i was wondering if i could replace the cpu cooler with a corsair h60 watercooler
Dude you are an actual genius. I followed your instructions and put thermal paste on the area where those two stickers were. I did NOT change the thermal pads. Before: Memory temp = 102 degrees C with the side off by the window. After: Memory temp = 86 degrees C with the side on!!! Doing a nice steady 101 Mh/s. Thanks mate.
I have the same computer but when I took my card out it's different than yours. Yours is longer than mine and when I took the top plate off (some screws were upside down. Not all on top like yours) like I can't separate it its different I don't know what kind they have cuz I don't really know much about computers. Just recently bought this Alienware deal and now I got this thing out I don't know what to do with it now because it doesn't come off like yours did. I'm so confused now. Been trying to find other alienware videos with my type of card but everyone has one like yours. Not sure of they screwed me over with some kind of second rate cad or what. It's the same number, and everything. I just don't know.
I have a 3090 Kingpin and while using Nicehash without any of its overclocking (Lite/Medium/High) settings, the VRAM on the 3090 hit 97C. But when High is selected, the VRAM temps go down to 92C (consistent).
@gamerheaven your never gonna have millions of subscribers if all you do is talk a dont actually show point for point what upgrades your doing. I can listen to people talk on redit I come to TH-cam to watch step by step instructions
Ok everybody. Here’s what you do. I got my R12 yesterday. Tried mining, VRAM’s shot up to 106C and was throttling my speed to around 90MH. Not good. I took some of the info from this video, but did it differently. After I finished and plugged it back in, I am mining NiceHash, High optimization, VRAM at 90-92C. Very pleased. I used No additional thermal pads, just added paste to areas. Read below..... So takeoff the back plate. Then unscrew the cooler from the PCB. Use this video to guide you what screws to remove. I completely separated it by unplugging both fan connectors. Clean off all the old paste from chip and cooler. Next, I removed the black aluminum piece from the PCB. I took the three screws out of the rear IO bracket and gently pried the two pieces apart. The thermal pads make them stick together. It will separate with minimal prying. From there, I adjusted one thermal pad on the memory because it was applied crooked. I then for giggles, put some thermal paste on top of those pads to help with contact to the black aluminum plate. I then put the aluminum plate back on the PCB. Next apply fresh thermal paste to the freshly cleaned Processor. Now onto the cooler: Remove the stickers like in the video, use a little alcohol to get off sticker residue. Apply thin lines of thermal paste on all sides of cooler. The area where he mentioned in the video. (You will see where the memory chips are located when you remove the black aluminum plate and will then know where to put it.) Place the cooler on top of the GPU. Backplate: I made a little channel in the middle of all of the thermal pads on the back plate. I filled the channels with thermal paste. After that, screw everything back together. Start in the middle for tightening and work your way out. Now your GPU is ready to fire up. I fired up NiceHash, immediately got 100.50MH. No thermal throttling and my VRAM went from 106c to 90-92c. I replaced no pads, just added paste. Now I don’t know if the extra steps I took made a difference or if it mainly is just adding paste on the cooler, but I tried to be thorough. I’m glad I took off the black aluminum plate and saw the one crooked pad. Maybe Gamers Heaven will do a walkthrough that visually shows what I did. Until then, message me here is you have questions. I’m very happy with the outcome and it only cost me thermal paste I already had in the house. Overall, it’s an easy job. Just go slow and take your time. My fans were running 100% at first but they do eventually come down. Runs about 60% when the room is around 70 degrees. If room is hotter, fans will ramp up.
So after testing and changing thermal pads multiple times on my 3080, I’m here to say. 69% power 75% fan speed -200 core clock +1075 memory clock 97.36 MH/s at 90C on memory junction temp. I’m happy with that
Hmmm, I didn’t try adding thermal paste around the heat pipe. I just used it where it normally goes. I may try this thermal paste too and see if I can get my temps below 90C. The highest mine have gone, which seeems to be whenever the DAG file gets regenerated, is 94C. So 1.5mm thermal pads everywhere, even the back plate instead of 3MM pads, seems to be the trick for my 3080
ok dude excellent video... holy f! Wonder if you have any issues one you unscrewed everything in terms of removing the PCB board? I disassembled my Dell RTX 3070 (its pretty much the same design) but for some reason after removing all the pressure screw's after the back plate was removed I could not FOR the life of me remove the board to reveal the damn GPU / access to replace the thermal paste. Just wondering if I should pull this thing apart again and just pull harder ? I really did give it a good pry and it really seems to be stuck together... any chance that could just be the 2 year old paste fused together ? Any help or advise would be great , cheers. edit: okay so I read a few comments how separation was "difficult" so I opened it back up and gave it a second try.. Dell used around 1cc of thermal paste and it had hardened into thermal glue after two years! took a million q tips and alchool to clean it all out.... wish me luck using artic silver 5! in a moderate amount along with adding some thermal pads like you did!
I bought my R11 a couple years ago and overall was happy with it. I wish I had seen your site then! This morning I got the dreaded pump fan not responding error code. The fan runs but I guess does not spin up to speed. I have a new fan ordered and while I have it apart I am going to add the second intake fan. This is the first time in about 25 years I bought a pre-built PC. When I built my own I got huge cases (I miss Fry's electronics) I still have a couple and I thought about transferring the R11 guts to the bigger case. One has a Thermaltake 1200 w PS. Lots of fans and lots of air flow. I will be checking out your other videos to see what I have been missing.
Just changed thermal pads on my 3090 Alienware aurora r11 with the Gelid Solutions Gp-Ultimate 1.5mm (saw them on a comparison video and they where among the best) and upgraded from 100mh/s 100C 70% fan, to 120mh/s 98-100C and 60% fan
Nice improvement but what shocked me more is that you only get 120MAsh. My 3080 takes probably half the power (never really check the exact numbers...) and after repasting, I'm back t0 100 megahash/s...
Great video! Question I have a R11 2060 and now I can’t play any games. Trying to get some info and see what’s going on with my pc. Every time I load a game it crashes as it’s loading the game. Could it be a ram problem or cooling issue that makes it crash all the time now?
You’re a talking waterfall of gibberish, like so many “content” creators… you video is disjointed and rehashed of content you have already shown and sold and monetized.. How dare you.. you literally showed us nothing new and nothing of how you did what you say you did. I don’t buy it and I don’t believe you and I think you are setting folk up for failure.
Yeah it did worked my temps went down!! That's really cool but now it's my fan that wont spin at a 100% they are like chilling at 30,40% most of the times and I can't mine for more than an hour after that my computer keep crashing and turning off need help plz!
Yeah a lot gpu model out there..but i think the best gpu is the gpu that the heatsink touching the vram too..that dell 3080, the heatsink not touching vram because of the plate...temp goes down after putting thermal paste on that plate..but im wonder what if we cut that plate into shape to allow the heatsink touching the vram, then put the thermal pad.. At the end, this will allow vram transfer the heat without the plate..vram> thermal pad>heatsink..rather than vram>thermal pad>plate>thermal paste>heatsink
Literally missing the footage that matters the most. The part claimed to provide such a huge difference. Not sure I even trust that this is real. What a huge waste of time.
read every single comment, still no clear answer on what size pad, however I am using a 3090 and there is no copper heatsink on the backplate, I ordered three sizes 1, 1.5, and 2mm. 2 of each size, as they are small. They will be here tomorrow. One confident user said 2mm for the 3090. Currently 108MHs @100C temp memory junction, 1300 OC on memory, -150 core. GPU temp @57C, power 80%, 270W fans 80%. Tried same settings but at 100% 349W power I get 106 MHs, memory junction temp 106C. Did not make a difference either with case cover open or closed. Praying for a miracle when I do this. Anyway thanks for the vid, great content and info as usual. edit "there is a heatsink" did this can confirm 2mm for 3090 GPU
@Gamer Heaven 110- ~92= 18c tho?? Not 30??? Am I missing something here? Thanks for the awesome vid dude!!! Been lookin everywhere for this info. Just worried about losing the warranty...think it’s worth it?
I'm not going to rewatch right now, but he may have said it throttled at 110c but it would shoot up past that to 120c. So 120c - 90c would give you a 30c temp drop. 🤷♂️ maybe watch it again
@@brohemian no there is no extra pcie slot and also the card is to big even if he got another mother board he wouldn’t be able to fit it in the case unless he got a new case and transferred the parts to the new one but that would be a hassle
what are the screwdrivers to open the 3080? i have purchased the one you put in the description but it is too small for several screws on the gpu. please let me know. thank you
You can't use pads because the core itself is then not making contact. The square in the middle that has paste from the factory, that's the GPU core. Really this extra paste is allowing the substantial cooler to more effectively take heat out of the memory in the same way it can remove heat from the core, which it's very good at.
Just to be clear the pads I will need are the 1mm? How many packs would you need in the revised method? Thx for posting your experience very helpful to a fellow R11 owner
I'm having problem - my aurora won't boot up now 🥲 i tried cmos, tried replugging everything, tried switching back to stock ram (that's the only thing i changed in my rig), tried unplugging everything, bar 1 hdmi monitor. It flashes white 1 and 1, then 2 and 1, then no flashes whatsoever. I read through comments but nobody reported in the first like 50 i checked I bed you or anyone, what can i do ro boot her up?
This worked like a charm. My VRAM temps went from 108 to 92 w/ quick miner on high setting. Thanks for the video. Also it was not hard at all just take your time.
Thank you for the video. I have a new R10 and anytime I wanted to play a game the computer screen would go black and the system would restart. I used GPU-Z and found that the card was hitting the thermal limit then shut-off. I didn't want to waste time with warranty crap and took it upon myself to open it and when I did it had a very small amount of thermal paste on it. I cleaned it off and added more liked you advised surrounding the chip on the metal and the temps are way down. The card works great and no more issues. Thank you again for the video. Also not sure if your interested but I have a 64GB kit of RGB Corsair RAM that I purchased and can't use. It's for Intel so I just purchased another kit for AMD and was wondering if you are interested in it? Or any one in the community here.
Thanks for the videos. Some reviews on amazon are sating this oaste doesn't last long, how is your still doing if you still have this PC or anyone can comment on its longevity? Thanks
I haven’t noticed any temp changes and it’s been about 9 months (which isn’t very long for thermal paste, some CPU thermal pace is advertised for like 5-10 years)
Not sure if anyone said this, but i think the real issue was you putting the thermal pads on the die side heatsink. You should have removed the cover on that was on top of the die side thermal pads and put them there. I'm not sure that thermal paste really solved the issue. i suspect the big thing was having your card mounted correctly after teardown and the thermal pads on the back. I am going to work on a couple of my friends dell 3090s this weekend and I will try just the backplate pads first and if that doesn't help much do the front side and report back. If we find in the end we need thermal paste then I'm the dick :P
any luck adding more than 1 card to that rig? every time I add a card (tried a 1080ti and a 1660super) hash rate drops. I can't get above 70 on the 3080 and even the 1660 won't go above 20. alone, installed 1 at a time, they work fine. (virtual mem in windows is set to 40gb)
I’m glad to see you got the results we all hoped you would get. Will definitely be doing that to my card when my R12 finally comes next week. Thanks for putting this info out there for everyone.
Is there a video about how you did the push/pull method of fans at the top by the radiator? If not, will one be releasing? I must admit I am not understanding how to do it, or what it even looks like
my 3090 is mining at 115 mh at 104c , can’t wait for those pads to arrive, i honestly don’t care abiut going any higher, i’m just more concern abut those high temps, i just want to lower the temp. but if i get a few extra mh even better if i would it onow what i know now i probably would it had gotten a pair of 3080’s instead of a single 3090 i always wanted to mine but i didn’t until one day i decided to try nice video
@@abnersilverio i don’t recomend the 3080 over the 3090, let me explain, what i was trying to say is that for mining is better to get a pair of two 3080 instead of a 3090, because for the price of a single 3090 you can get a pair of 3080 and have more hash rate than a single 3090, 200 vs 120, the 3080’s can reach around 100 mega hash while the 3090 can reach 120, of course for gaming and probably everything else the 3090 is a better card because it has more vram, some games might scale using nvlink but sli is technically dead. for mining a pair of 3080’s are better than a single 3090, imo
@@abnersilverio yes i heard about the problem, unfortunately gddr6x gets very hot, you don't have to open none of your cards if you don't want to but you will have to lower the memory clock so the vram doesn't get too hot, is also recommended to lower the core clock too, you can use the profiles in nice hash, set it to medium or low, you can also do it manually, 300 or 600 less on the core clock and around 500 to 1000 less in memory clock, that will lower the temps on the vram, that is the opposite of what many people are doing but that is the only way to keep your warranty, keep in mind that by lowering the core clock and memory clock, your card might run a bit colder, but it will also lower your hash rate, is a trade off, what many people are doing is the opposite, changing the thermal pads that comes from factory and replacing them with high quality pads that way you are able to increase the memory clock from up to 1200 to be able to increase the hash rate
@@cepherator it depends on the brand, yes there are some similarities on some cards but there is also some diference, the best thing to do is search for your card model, that way you can get the right pads
What he said is true, I applied thermal paste on my r12 3090 Memory temp from 110c dropped 2~ 4c but I put some heat sink on back plate and fan blow on heat sink, It dropped until 98 Celsius. But I haven’t changed my thermal pad yet, If changed maybe can lower more temp.
Same here, receiving my 3090 R10 tomorrow and want to do this but imho the pads are probably not worth changing if they are brand new, did you do both or just thermal paste?
So I've got a custom pc that I've built using an ice 220t. I'm thinking I'll buy the cheapest version with a 3090 and swap my 1080 to my old r5. I'm not sure what I'll do with the rest of the pc but I figure in 3 months time the 3090 will have paid for the entire rig
The bracket that covers the VRAM chips is probably creating a huge thermal transfer bottleneck and you may want to look into if that uses pads or paste and replace accordingly.
OK. I have another PC running an EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra and it putting out 100MH/s 90C on VRAM (Tops). Closed Thermaltake Full ATX Tower. Everything on air.
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brooo you didnt really show us at all what you did or how you did it
lol all he did was talk
Wish you would have shown video of exactly what you did. I know you told us, but the video would help for newbies.
Yea, idk i feel like what he describes is very messy and probably not it. But it is what it is, he wont clarify the process.
@@hzr815 He also doesn't mention the size of the pads he tried. I've read that 0.5mm pads are the right size for between the heat sync and the black plate. The ThermalRight Odyssey pads have a maybe 40% more heat transfer than Arctic Silver 5. I'm thinking pads might actually be better. I'm going to try it this weekend.
@@KellyNicholes do some videos to help use newbie here, please ya :)
Yea. This video skipped out the most important part. And just him describing the process over and over again.
I just tried 0.5mm pads. The VRAM was down to 80 from 108, but the hot spot temp and GPU temps got up to 103 and 90, respectively. Redoing with just thermal paste and I'm down to normal gpu) hotspot temps but down to 90C on the VRAM. I'll try the pads again, though, as they should be better...
Hmmm. I wish I coul have seen more about how to apply the pads/past. Is there a good forum or reddit post about this? Side note. Don't care about cost. I want the highest quality pads/paste for my baby!
we see the thermal paste application on the gpu die but no footage of the application on the specific places he mentions. I really wanted to see too since I'm expecting the a similar system to arrive soon.
Fujipoly ....is what you want bud, replaced my x299x gigabyte boards pads to those pink ones a hair thicker as well, GREAT difference! I put it under the boards VRM as well as the obviously changed = under the VRM heatsink as my particular board has a backplate so it squeezed it in place something perfect, it DEF makes a diff just take time...
thermal pads application is pretty straightforward, just copy original pads' size, remove old pads and place new ones.
so only paste on the metal cooler part around the processor and on the processor (no pads)? Then replace pads on the other side so that the memory chips make contact with pads and the top metal plate? Why not show this process since people will probably pour too much paste on the metal? Also 94c VRAM with 100% fans hmmm. wouldn't that typically be just 6-10c more stock at that fan speed? Not trying to be entitled here but I was really looking forward to a detailed process video as to learn from your mistakes.
Until he shows us that he did apply thermal paste on the metal cooler ,I’m not risking it.
Just use thermal pads like 1.5mm and measure to make sure it makes contact instead of thermal paste
I did the mod and works perfect. 110c thermal throttled pretty much anytime I tried to mine- did the mod, paste and pads and now I run 90-96c overlocked mining ether hashing high 90s.
NH settings are on high... 🤔🤔🤔
Have not received my R12 yet but your videos are helping me understand my future PC. Thanks man 👍🏼
3090 build 😀
I ended up doing this and dropped down to 80-86c depending on ambient (100% fan) . I used Noctua H2 compound since it is non conductive. I did not change thermal pads.
Did the exact same thing. Used artic paste dropped from 108 to 88-90c not bad
Added the thermal paste to my 3080Ti at 'this area here', VRAM temp reduced by 12C - simple mod, thx!
I just added Thermal Paste only and the temps went from 110 with the fans at 100% to 92 with fans at 65%. I used Kryonaut Extreme thermal paste. About 3g is what covered everything. I skipped the pads.
Those alienware suffocation boxes just are horrible,moving all the crap out of one into a new case litterally lowers ALL temps Mobo cpu gpu ram and board temps drop 20deg.Stock everything was 73deg I got everything down to 47-55deg Celsius from the new case.The standoffs I had to modify but it worked.
It's always funny when the community fixes a giant companies defective product. Usually using simple methods too.
Just look at oem PC's. Most of them still got shit airflow.
So many cooling upgrades I need to do. You would think for $6k you wouldn’t have to add anything else 😑
Can you share the specific model of heatsinks for R12 and the water cooler fan to buy on Amazon and if is possible a video to replace or add the second top fan, please. you're awesome in your videos, just these smalls details will be useful to replicate your advice.
Man what is it now? In your first video you said you double stacked 1mm for the backplate and memory chips. Now its a double stack of 0.5mms?
Yeah, these videos leave A LOT to be desired in the way of showing people what you actually did step-by-step.
I put pads on mine without paste. I used 1.0mm pads under the metal plate from the pcb/mem chips up to touch the metal plate. They honestly didn't look at thick as the stock ones to me, but my temps definitely went from 110 down to the 95-100c area while mining on 75% fans.
I put 0.5mm pads between the metal plate and the actual heatstink (where he took the stickers off and applied thermal paste).
I'm thinking maybe I should use thicker pads in both spots but I didn't want to risk pushing the heatsink too far off of the gpu core. I have seen others say they used paste too but I thought the gap was too large for paste? Maybe it's just me but I always thought pads were recommended for these larger gaps?
I didn't even use fancy pads just the cheap blue ones on amazon that were 6-7w/mk. I'm pretty sure the pads he bought had double the heat transfer capacity and should perform even better.
There is another guy who shows you step by step ...and I haven't tried but I will.soon
@@gmorgcyborg can you link the video?
@@gmorgcyborg can u link the video plz
@@mohcinetiguenza6208 but i just realized.. we have different cards .. I have the founder edition .. im sure all cards are built basically the same with just different coolers
How do you get the vram temp to show up on nicehash?
Use a 3000 series card.
@@KellyNicholes all my cards are 30 series and none show
@@SmileGentLee are you using the newest version of quick miner? Not the normal "nicehash" but "quick miner"
@@KellyNicholes oh this is quick miner only? I use the .exe
I didn't see any mention in your video about adjusting fan speed via the Alienware Command Center app - it took me a bit as the UI is terrible, but if you go to the temp tab (fan speed) and click just to the left of the offset on your current profile you can crank those fans up for when you are mining. Granted this makes the machine hella loud (new quieter fans on their way) but it did drop temps a bit more. Sorry if redundant or a "duh" moment, but squeezing out any additional temp reduction is always a good thing for mining. Great video by the way - I love your setup!
Nothing on you buddy, it’s just so sad that they would actually charge you so much and you have to try to correct Alienwares sad attempt at building a gaming desktop. If you buy a prebuilt I feel it should come operational out of the box, not thermal throttling at idol. If you ever need help building your own rig let me know, I’ve been building rigs since the early 90’s.
do you know if i can change the cpu cooling, mine does not have watercooling, so i was wondering if i could replace the cpu cooler with a corsair h60 watercooler
Dude you are an actual genius. I followed your instructions and put thermal paste on the area where those two stickers were. I did NOT change the thermal pads. Before: Memory temp = 102 degrees C with the side off by the window. After: Memory temp = 86 degrees C with the side on!!! Doing a nice steady 101 Mh/s. Thanks mate.
I have the same computer but when I took my card out it's different than yours. Yours is longer than mine and when I took the top plate off (some screws were upside down. Not all on top like yours) like I can't separate it its different I don't know what kind they have cuz I don't really know much about computers. Just recently bought this Alienware deal and now I got this thing out I don't know what to do with it now because it doesn't come off like yours did. I'm so confused now. Been trying to find other alienware videos with my type of card but everyone has one like yours. Not sure of they screwed me over with some kind of second rate cad or what. It's the same number, and everything. I just don't know.
well, would like to see how you applied the paste and pads coz that's the part that i really need guidance in
I have a 3090 Kingpin and while using Nicehash without any of its overclocking (Lite/Medium/High) settings, the VRAM on the 3090 hit 97C.
But when High is selected, the VRAM temps go down to 92C (consistent).
My r12 better get in production soon man. Waiting since March 22nd. Getting antsy.
Same here
I’ve been pressing f5 ever since
Right, ordered mine on the 30th, delivery date of the 3rd of may
Ive been waiting 6 weeks..
@@m_styles1981 gross
Damn for me not seeing the installation of paste makes me worry about doing it myself.
lol
@gamerheaven your never gonna have millions of subscribers if all you do is talk a dont actually show point for point what upgrades your doing. I can listen to people talk on redit I come to TH-cam to watch step by step instructions
Quick question.. applying that paste voids the warranty?
ripping off the stickers to apply the paste does yes.
Ok everybody. Here’s what you do. I got my R12 yesterday. Tried mining, VRAM’s shot up to 106C and was throttling my speed to around 90MH. Not good. I took some of the info from this video, but did it differently. After I finished and plugged it back in, I am mining NiceHash, High optimization, VRAM at 90-92C. Very pleased. I used No additional thermal pads, just added paste to areas. Read below.....
So takeoff the back plate. Then unscrew the cooler from the PCB. Use this video to guide you what screws to remove. I completely separated it by unplugging both fan connectors. Clean off all the old paste from chip and cooler. Next, I removed the black aluminum piece from the PCB. I took the three screws out of the rear IO bracket and gently pried the two pieces apart. The thermal pads make them stick together. It will separate with minimal prying.
From there, I adjusted one thermal pad on the memory because it was applied crooked. I then for giggles, put some thermal paste on top of those pads to help with contact to the black aluminum plate. I then put the aluminum plate back on the PCB.
Next apply fresh thermal paste to the freshly cleaned Processor.
Now onto the cooler: Remove the stickers like in the video, use a little alcohol to get off sticker residue. Apply thin lines of thermal paste on all sides of cooler. The area where he mentioned in the video. (You will see where the memory chips are located when you remove the black aluminum plate and will then know where to put it.) Place the cooler on top of the GPU.
Backplate: I made a little channel in the middle of all of the thermal pads on the back plate. I filled the channels with thermal paste. After that, screw everything back together. Start in the middle for tightening and work your way out. Now your GPU is ready to fire up.
I fired up NiceHash, immediately got 100.50MH. No thermal throttling and my VRAM went from 106c to 90-92c. I replaced no pads, just added paste. Now I don’t know if the extra steps I took made a difference or if it mainly is just adding paste on the cooler, but I tried to be thorough. I’m glad I took off the black aluminum plate and saw the one crooked pad.
Maybe Gamers Heaven will do a walkthrough that visually shows what I did. Until then, message me here is you have questions. I’m very happy with the outcome and it only cost me thermal paste I already had in the house. Overall, it’s an easy job. Just go slow and take your time.
My fans were running 100% at first but they do eventually come down. Runs about 60% when the room is around 70 degrees. If room is hotter, fans will ramp up.
which thermal paste should I get and how much of it to do the job? new to paste
@@someguyyoudontknow263 I used Arctic MX-4. They have an MX-5 out as well. A standard small tube is more than enough. Thin lines on the cooler.
Thanks very much for this write up !
So after testing and changing thermal pads multiple times on my 3080, I’m here to say.
69% power
75% fan speed
-200 core clock
+1075 memory clock
97.36 MH/s at 90C on memory junction temp. I’m happy with that
Around 98-99 mh/s my card likes to crash after a few hours. So 97mh/s seems good enough for me. I also have the R10 FYI
@@iVETAnsolini mine will crash past +700 and 95 hash.
Hmmm, I didn’t try adding thermal paste around the heat pipe. I just used it where it normally goes. I may try this thermal paste too and see if I can get my temps below 90C. The highest mine have gone, which seeems to be whenever the DAG file gets regenerated, is 94C. So 1.5mm thermal pads everywhere, even the back plate instead of 3MM pads, seems to be the trick for my 3080
I’ve seen a couple other people that have said the same as you. I used 1.5mm thermal pads for everything
You have your core clock turned down. Also what are your fan speeds
ok dude excellent video... holy f! Wonder if you have any issues one you unscrewed everything in terms of removing the PCB board? I disassembled my Dell RTX 3070 (its pretty much the same design) but for some reason after removing all the pressure screw's after the back plate was removed I could not FOR the life of me remove the board to reveal the damn GPU / access to replace the thermal paste. Just wondering if I should pull this thing apart again and just pull harder ? I really did give it a good pry and it really seems to be stuck together... any chance that could just be the 2 year old paste fused together ? Any help or advise would be great , cheers.
edit: okay so I read a few comments how separation was "difficult" so I opened it back up and gave it a second try.. Dell used around 1cc of thermal paste and it had hardened into thermal glue after two years! took a million q tips and alchool to clean it all out.... wish me luck using artic silver 5! in a moderate amount along with adding some thermal pads like you did!
I bought my R11 a couple years ago and overall was happy with it. I wish I had seen your site then! This morning I got the dreaded pump fan not responding error code. The fan runs but I guess does not spin up to speed. I have a new fan ordered and while I have it apart I am going to add the second intake fan. This is the first time in about 25 years I bought a pre-built PC. When I built my own I got huge cases (I miss Fry's electronics) I still have a couple and I thought about transferring the R11 guts to the bigger case. One has a Thermaltake 1200 w PS. Lots of fans and lots of air flow. I will be checking out your other videos to see what I have been missing.
Just changed thermal pads on my 3090 Alienware aurora r11 with the Gelid Solutions Gp-Ultimate 1.5mm (saw them on a comparison video and they where among the best) and upgraded from 100mh/s 100C 70% fan, to 120mh/s 98-100C and 60% fan
Nice improvement but what shocked me more is that you only get 120MAsh. My 3080 takes probably half the power (never really check the exact numbers...) and after repasting, I'm back t0 100 megahash/s...
UUGGHH prebuilt pc cases always a FUCKING NIGHTMARE🔥🔥🔥😱😱 even today in 2021😩😔 IT IS NOT EFFING ROCKET SCIENCE PRE BUILDERS 🤨👎👎
Great video! Question I have a R11 2060 and now I can’t play any games. Trying to get some info and see what’s going on with my pc. Every time I load a game it crashes as it’s loading the game. Could it be a ram problem or cooling issue that makes it crash all the time now?
You’re a talking waterfall of gibberish, like so many “content” creators… you video is disjointed and rehashed of content you have already shown and sold and monetized.. How dare you.. you literally showed us nothing new and nothing of how you did what you say you did. I don’t buy it and I don’t believe you and I think you are setting folk up for failure.
Yeah it did worked my temps went down!! That's really cool but now it's my fan that wont spin at a 100% they are like chilling at 30,40% most of the times and I can't mine for more than an hour after that my computer keep crashing and turning off need help plz!
Yeah a lot gpu model out there..but i think the best gpu is the gpu that the heatsink touching the vram too..that dell 3080, the heatsink not touching vram because of the plate...temp goes down after putting thermal paste on that plate..but im wonder what if we cut that plate into shape to allow the heatsink touching the vram, then put the thermal pad..
At the end, this will allow vram transfer the heat without the plate..vram> thermal pad>heatsink..rather than vram>thermal pad>plate>thermal paste>heatsink
Would I have to do with with a Ryzen 7 5800 and 3070? VR Sim racing with streaming?
Sorry but this video was a let down not seeing the actual application. I’m not taking the risk with out seeing it. Otherwise its just word of mouth.
I’m don’t have the experience to change pads on my card I have a 3080 in my R14 is there anyone that you know who can provide service to do that
I know this is old but I’m looking to put a kraken on this thing , but when I saw this I was thinking about the new thermal sheets
Literally missing the footage that matters the most. The part claimed to provide such a huge difference. Not sure I even trust that this is real. What a huge waste of time.
read every single comment, still no clear answer on what size pad, however I am using a 3090 and there is no copper heatsink on the backplate, I ordered three sizes 1, 1.5, and 2mm. 2 of each size, as they are small. They will be here tomorrow. One confident user said 2mm for the 3090. Currently 108MHs @100C temp memory junction, 1300 OC on memory, -150 core. GPU temp @57C, power 80%, 270W fans 80%. Tried same settings but at 100% 349W power I get 106 MHs, memory junction temp 106C. Did not make a difference either with case cover open or closed. Praying for a miracle when I do this. Anyway thanks for the vid, great content and info as usual. edit "there is a heatsink" did this can confirm 2mm for 3090 GPU
What a shitty case, and the motherboard looks like its out of the 90's!, why do people buy these things?.
@Gamer Heaven 110- ~92= 18c tho?? Not 30??? Am I missing something here? Thanks for the awesome vid dude!!! Been lookin everywhere for this info. Just worried about losing the warranty...think it’s worth it?
I always thought throttling happened at 110 yeah, maybe he meant 30F? *but he does say 30C multiple times
I'm not going to rewatch right now, but he may have said it throttled at 110c but it would shoot up past that to 120c. So 120c - 90c would give you a 30c temp drop. 🤷♂️ maybe watch it again
120, its goes up to 120
My wife got me the R12 with RTX 3070! Is it posible to add an extra graphic card in it or external?
No
yes
@@brohemian no there is no extra pcie slot and also the card is to big even if he got another mother board he wouldn’t be able to fit it in the case unless he got a new case and transferred the parts to the new one but that would be a hassle
@@TOXIC-fo2bc I have one with a 3080 it came with and a 1070ti I threw in for a few extra hashes. It is a very tight fit and I have the case open tho
Took off my backplate and some of the thermal pads on it was like stuck on the chip so. Is this a problem?
wait why did you upload an other video if in the last one you were saying that changing the thermal pads are a waste of time
This is a follow up vid explaining what he did to fix it.
Does this same procedure apply to a 2060 Super by applying thermal?
So I don't have to change the pad on my Dell/Alienware? Just add the paste?
what are the screwdrivers to open the 3080? i have purchased the one you put in the description but it is too small for several screws on the gpu. please let me know. thank you
Get a ifixit
should your gpu temps be fine if its not a 3080 or 3090. ex. 6600 xt or 3060ti
where do you find it for 4 dollars. Its 40 from everywhere I have seen...
You can't use pads because the core itself is then not making contact. The square in the middle that has paste from the factory, that's the GPU core. Really this extra paste is allowing the substantial cooler to more effectively take heat out of the memory in the same way it can remove heat from the core, which it's very good at.
lol 94C is still high, mine does not go above 76C at 90MH/s
What ramm would you add? Does it matter or do you have to match brands?
Just to be clear the pads I will need are the 1mm? How many packs would you need in the revised method? Thx for posting your experience very helpful to a fellow R11 owner
I'm pretty sure he said to just add thermal paste to the heatsink where it touches the vram
i got a dell 3080 ti and it throttle even after thermal paste and pads changed
Thank you very much! Anything about GPU fan replacement?
Are you VOIDING your warranty by modding?
Ordered an r10 with a 3080 and I wish I knew how to do this. Im newbie that’s not confident doing this. Hopefully it doesn’t overheat.
mine doesn't overheat per say but holy shit it sounds like a jet engine sometimes.
I'm having problem - my aurora won't boot up now 🥲 i tried cmos, tried replugging everything, tried switching back to stock ram (that's the only thing i changed in my rig), tried unplugging everything, bar 1 hdmi monitor. It flashes white 1 and 1, then 2 and 1, then no flashes whatsoever. I read through comments but nobody reported in the first like 50 i checked
I bed you or anyone, what can i do ro boot her up?
I wanna do this so badly, but I dont wanna void my warranty..
what is your OC setting for this dell card??
Would you do this to the 3060Ti card as well?
Pads work fine, you need 0.2mm pads for that area.
Do you have the same card? Have you tried with 0.2mm pads and what were your results?
@@ΚώσταςΠαπάζογλου-σ7ψ I do and it's roughly the same result wise.
I have that card and used 2.0 mm pads and worked like a charm. I also used thermal grisly thermal paste in the areas recommended. Worked like a charm.
This worked like a charm. My VRAM temps went from 108 to 92 w/ quick miner on high setting. Thanks for the video. Also it was not hard at all just take your time.
@@dangerlos that’s awesome - how much paste did you apply? And just 3 2.0mm pads to replace the originals?
Thank you for the video. I have a new R10 and anytime I wanted to play a game the computer screen would go black and the system would restart. I used GPU-Z and found that the card was hitting the thermal limit then shut-off. I didn't want to waste time with warranty crap and took it upon myself to open it and when I did it had a very small amount of thermal paste on it. I cleaned it off and added more liked you advised surrounding the chip on the metal and the temps are way down. The card works great and no more issues. Thank you again for the video. Also not sure if your interested but I have a 64GB kit of RGB Corsair RAM that I purchased and can't use. It's for Intel so I just purchased another kit for AMD and was wondering if you are interested in it? Or any one in the community here.
Interested.
Can anyone tell me the pads, the link is broken
the one thing i needed was the video showing how much paste to put on, and it's the only thing missing :) Bummer.
Your best bet is to put some on, I mean decently, test it, if its not enough, add more. I'd say about as much as the package has, but a little better
what program do you use for mining?
Im having trouble taking the gpu out
Any suggestions for R12 cpu air cooler that would be better than stock without going for an AIOWC? The psu takes up a lot of clearance...
you need to go water as youl be blowing air into a wall which is why you have the radiator to point the heat out the top vent.
do you have a video for this for the 2080?
actually the 0.5 mm thermal pads worked.
Thanks for the videos. Some reviews on amazon are sating this oaste doesn't last long, how is your still doing if you still have this PC or anyone can comment on its longevity? Thanks
I haven’t noticed any temp changes and it’s been about 9 months (which isn’t very long for thermal paste, some CPU thermal pace is advertised for like 5-10 years)
@@GamerHeavenOfficial thank you for your quick response 🙏🏻
is this a 2.5 or 2 slot gpu?
Just asking. When I see this I was wondering if it would be easier to simply keep the cover away and perhaps when mining just let a fan blow at it.
Thats all i did. Cracked the case open swung out power supply and have a box fan blowing on it
how many tubes of thermal paste did you endup using?
2.5-3 grams
Thank you dude! I also tried cooling the VRAM with some grizzly pads but it did very little but with the paste it did the trick. Subscribed!
Glad I could help
Nice work on this. Did it to my 3080 inside my Aurora R12 and worked like a charm. Really nice work.
How do I see your overclock settings?
Lets gooooo!!!
How do I make nicehash to show vram temp? It only shows GPU temp for me
Do you have quick miner or the regular “nicehash miner”
regular “nicehash miner”
@@GamerHeavenOfficial regular “nicehash miner”
So what thickness pads did you eventually use?
i hope to know it too ... i cant found this most important info in the whole video....
Not sure if anyone said this, but i think the real issue was you putting the thermal pads on the die side heatsink. You should have removed the cover on that was on top of the die side thermal pads and put them there. I'm not sure that thermal paste really solved the issue. i suspect the big thing was having your card mounted correctly after teardown and the thermal pads on the back. I am going to work on a couple of my friends dell 3090s this weekend and I will try just the backplate pads first and if that doesn't help much do the front side and report back. If we find in the end we need thermal paste then I'm the dick :P
any luck adding more than 1 card to that rig? every time I add a card (tried a 1080ti and a 1660super) hash rate drops. I can't get above 70 on the 3080 and even the 1660 won't go above 20. alone, installed 1 at a time, they work fine. (virtual mem in windows is set to 40gb)
I’m glad to see you got the results we all hoped you would get. Will definitely be doing that to my card when my R12 finally comes next week. Thanks for putting this info out there for everyone.
Thank you soap, I am glad too. You are welcome. Let me know when you get your R12, I'm excited for you.
It’s a must do
how much did u paid for the r12?
@@brainfog. I paid $2200. I kept it at bare minimum RAM and storage. I have a Samsung M.2 and a couple SSD’s and Corsair RAM I’m going to put in it.
The video says use two .5mm pads but the link goes to a 1mm pad. Why not get a 1mm pad since it's much cheaper than 2 .5mm pads?
So what did you do with the pads you bought?
Is there a video about how you did the push/pull method of fans at the top by the radiator? If not, will one be releasing? I must admit I am not understanding how to do it, or what it even looks like
my 3090 is mining at 115 mh at 104c , can’t wait for those pads to arrive, i honestly don’t care abiut going any higher, i’m just more concern abut those high temps, i just want to lower the temp. but if i get a few extra mh even better
if i would it onow what i know now
i probably would it had gotten a pair of 3080’s instead of a single 3090
i always wanted to mine but i didn’t until one day i decided to try
nice video
@@abnersilverio i don’t recomend the 3080 over the 3090, let me explain, what i was trying to say is that for mining is better to get a pair of two 3080 instead of a 3090, because for the price of a single 3090 you can get a pair of 3080 and have more hash rate than a single 3090, 200 vs 120, the 3080’s can reach around 100 mega hash while the 3090 can reach 120, of course for gaming and probably everything else the 3090 is a better card because it has more vram, some games might scale using nvlink but sli is technically dead. for mining a pair of 3080’s are better than a single 3090, imo
@@abnersilverio yes i heard about the problem, unfortunately gddr6x gets very hot, you don't have to open none of your cards if you don't want to but you will have to lower the memory clock so the vram doesn't get too hot, is also recommended to lower the core clock too, you can use the profiles in nice hash, set it to medium or low, you can also do it manually, 300 or 600 less on the core clock and around 500 to 1000 less in memory clock, that will lower the temps on the vram, that is the opposite of what many people are doing but that is the only way to keep your warranty, keep in mind that by lowering the core clock and memory clock, your card might run a bit colder, but it will also lower your hash rate, is a trade off, what many people are doing is the opposite, changing the thermal pads that comes from factory and replacing them with high quality pads that way you are able to increase the memory clock from up to 1200 to be able to increase the hash rate
do you know if we need to get the same size pads for the 3090? Or do we need a different size pad than that of the 3080?
@@cepherator it depends on the brand, yes there are some similarities on some cards but there is also some diference, the best thing to do is search for your card model, that way you can get the right pads
@@yonoexisto7833 oh, I am getting the Alienware branded one. Do you have the same brand?
What he said is true, I applied thermal paste on my r12 3090 Memory temp from 110c dropped 2~ 4c but I put some heat sink on back plate and fan blow on heat sink, It dropped until 98 Celsius. But I haven’t changed my thermal pad yet, If changed maybe can lower more temp.
Thanks for sharing brother! This video card is different from others on TH-cam, so really appreciate you sharing!!
This guy is a wizard. Dropped my VRAM temps 20 degrees.
Did you do both pads and paste? I'm thinking to only do the paste..
Same here, receiving my 3090 R10 tomorrow and want to do this but imho the pads are probably not worth changing if they are brand new, did you do both or just thermal paste?
I didn’t have pads on hand, and didn’t want to wait for Amazon; so I just did thermal paste and that did the trick just fine for me.
@@anthonyanderson3328 thank you!!!
Does any know if I can pay dell to apply new thermal pads and paste? I don’t want to void my warranty by doing the installation myself.
So I've got a custom pc that I've built using an ice 220t. I'm thinking I'll buy the cheapest version with a 3090 and swap my 1080 to my old r5. I'm not sure what I'll do with the rest of the pc but I figure in 3 months time the 3090 will have paid for the entire rig
Does'nt understand why but i changed the thermal bad and put the thermal past and i still the temperature did not have drop a single degree. Need help
Is 1mm Thermal pads thick enough? Or should we get something thicker? Thanks!
The bracket that covers the VRAM chips is probably creating a huge thermal transfer bottleneck and you may want to look into if that uses pads or paste and replace accordingly.
So to make it clear you removed the stickers and pad and replaced it with paste on the cooler side not gpu frame!
did this on my rtx 3080 ventus and i went from 105 on vram to 90 and the actual gpu die went from 83 while gaming to 75. a big diffrence.
OK. I have another PC running an EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra and it putting out 100MH/s 90C on VRAM (Tops). Closed Thermaltake Full ATX Tower. Everything on air.