ltgisabeachbum

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Just got my package in today and installed thermal pads in about 10 mins.  Instructions within the package are pretty straight forward and easy.

But what exactly is the newly applied thermal pad making contact with?

Looks like the fins of the heatsink, going by the picture in the tutorial. Seems like a real professional solution to their high end graphics card. Would be real nice to see toms hardware produce some flir images from their original card with the "fix" applied.

ltgisabeachbum
But what exactly is the newly applied thermal pad making contact with?

The thermal pads make contact between baseplate and the fins on the cooler to draw heat from.the vrm to the fins through the baseplate.

I did that today with my gtx 1080 ftw.... actually the size of the thermal pads should be: 2 mm between the PCB and the Backplate in order PCB to get good contact with the Backplate. Then, 1 mm between the heatsink and the midplate, cheers! 

JayzTwoCents did a video applying TIM to a GPU where he literally slathers it on there, all over the die, all around it, to prove a point. Too much TIM isn't bad (and sometimes good?), while not enough (ESPECIALLY for GPUs) is a big problem.

Where can you check the shipment status?
Ive tried asking evga twice on how long this takes but they are extremely good at evading such questions so all i got was vague misdirections at this pace my card could be dead and buried before i even get anything. They told me in the second time i asked
last monday they would ship but no mention where from thanks evga anyway so i blindly assumed to me but now i see that status page posted here i really wanna know how to find that because i bet i got nothing. Why so vague evga? you dont do vague accepting money is it this hard to answer where they ship from or give some guesstimate how long this takes? 2 support agents cant answer this? real nice always glad to pay 400 euro to have to screw around with it and be left in the dark but glad someone posted a nice guide this awesome job.

You go to the page where you submitted the request.

EVGA is not going to give you a timeline until they have shipped the pads. The pads have to be cut at the factory, shipped to evga, sorted by evga, repackaged, then shipped to you. Be patient. Your card is going to be fine. If something happens, EVGA will take care of you.

I wanted to pm you this answer but cant due to the rules so this is a bit offtopic.
so why did the 2 support agents have to give vague answers and not give the answer you give me a direct and normal answer? the other problem i asked and had no answer to since im in the netherlands i believe you have a holding in germany where are the pads shipped from? Its not so much evga taking care of me with rma etc would be right out an insult if they didnt but no one likes buying a 400 euro card or more just to go at it with few screw drivers for me this is a huge deal breaker and im not sure im sticking with evga in the future but i do know i will do some research see if you put padding on the cards or if we have to stab at them with screwdrivers again.

Thanks for the info. I did my mods asthma week. I put my own thermal paste on as it has better stats. One thing I did do was leave the connector on the back of the card. I just flipped the heatsink so I didn't have to pay it up. Unfortunately I will have to do it again as my early kit didn't include the vram pads. Even so, my temps dropped quite a bit combined with moving my card to the bottom slot.