Anyone know if I may be able to use Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut with the founder edition cooler? Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut specifically states not to be used with aluminum coolers, that being said I am unable to find any info on the FE gtx 1080ti cooler material (doesnt have the pinkish/rose copper color.)
 
I used Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut on my1080ti and saw a 3-4 degree drop which helps but its not where I wanna be. My card can go up to 81-86 degrees under load and I'm trying to see what I can do alleviate that.
 
ps, sorry if its a dumb question but I'd appreciate any help.
pps no, I don't wanna watercool at this moment - definitely down the road.
 
Thanks!

Cool GTX
Are you asking about the 1080 Ti FE ?

Yes

I'm betting that EVGA's Tech Support can get you that info - http://www.evga.com/about/contactus/ 

jovalabs
Anyone know if I may be able to use Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut with the founder edition cooler? Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut specifically states not to be used with aluminum coolers, that being said I am unable to find any info on the FE gtx 1080ti cooler material (doesnt have the pinkish/rose copper color.)
 
I used Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut on my1080ti and saw a 3-4 degree drop which helps but its not where I wanna be. My card can go up to 81-86 degrees under load and I'm trying to see what I can do alleviate that.
 
ps, sorry if its a dumb question but I'd appreciate any help.
pps no, I don't wanna watercool at this moment - definitely down the road.
 
Thanks!

{states not to be used with aluminum coolers,} Thanks for this Info, Odd "based on a ceramic silicon formula complex and nano aluminum oxide."
 
Where did you read about the aluminum coolers?
FAQs Found it.
 
Do not use with Aluminum Warning ?
This warning is for conductonaut only. If you find this warning accidently within a kryonaut, hydronaut or aeronaut packing unit,  please ignore that warning!. This was a packing error which has happend within the past. We already fixed that issue. We apologise for any inconvenience. 
 
You Should be fine using them with an Aluminum Cooler.
 
I almost got them but the cost is way high so I went with;
ARCTIC Thermal Pad (145 x 145 x 0.5 mm) - Silicone Based Thermal Pad with 6.0W/mK Thermal Conductivity - Flexible and Adaptive
ARCTIC Thermal Pad (145 x 145 x 1.0 mm) - Silicone Based Thermal Pad with 6.0W/mK Thermal Conductivity - Flexible and Adaptive
At almost half the cost of the Grizzly ones.

jovalabs

bcavnaugh

jovalabs
Anyone know if I may be able to use Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut with the founder edition cooler? Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut specifically states not to be used with aluminum coolers, that being said I am unable to find any info on the FE gtx 1080ti cooler material (doesnt have the pinkish/rose copper color.)
 
I used Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut on my1080ti and saw a 3-4 degree drop which helps but its not where I wanna be. My card can go up to 81-86 degrees under load and I'm trying to see what I can do alleviate that.
 
ps, sorry if its a dumb question but I'd appreciate any help.
pps no, I don't wanna watercool at this moment - definitely down the road.
 
Thanks!

{states not to be used with aluminum coolers,} Thanks for this Info, Odd "based on a ceramic silicon formula complex and nano aluminum oxide."
 
Where did you read about the aluminum coolers?
FAQs Found it.
 
Do not use with Aluminum Warning ?
This warning is for Conductonaut Past Only. If you find this warning accidently within a kryonaut, hydronaut or aeronaut packing unit,  please ignore that warning!. This was a packing error which has happend within the past. We already fixed that issue. We apologise for any inconvenience. 
 
You Should be fine using them with an Aluminum Cooler.
 
I almost got them but the cost is way high so I went with;
ARCTIC Thermal Pad (145 x 145 x 0.5 mm) - Silicone Based Thermal Pad with 6.0W/mK Thermal Conductivity - Flexible and Adaptive
ARCTIC Thermal Pad (145 x 145 x 1.0 mm) - Silicone Based Thermal Pad with 6.0W/mK Thermal Conductivity - Flexible and Adaptive
At almost half the cost of the Grizzly ones.

I was referring to the thermal paste/grease, you may have been confused by my post. Have you had any luck changing out the thermal pads?

Did you get the "Conductonaut Past"? this is the Only Past you cannot use with Aluminum, sorry if I made an error.
The part of the Cooler that is touching the GPU is Copper by the way so you are still fine to use it.
 
It is best to have Thermal Pads on Hand, you never know when you will need them when you are removing the Cooler from a Graphics Card.
Some are used on the Back Side as well when you also have a Black Plate installed.

jovalabs
@ bc - yeah that's what I was referring to. I wanted to know if I could use the Conductonaut Thermal liquid with the Founders Edition cooler on the 1080ti. Thanks anyways

Remember to that "liquid metal thermal compound" is more designed for CPUs and not GPUs.
So be very carful as within .005 mm you have electronic components next to the GPU, think of the size of a Pin Head. 
 
I would use this from them Hydronaut or Kryonaut

Thanks guys, I just went about delid-ing my 77k and was wondering if the same theory applied. I guess watercooling is all that's left.

TRClark911

jovalabs
Thanks guys, I just went about delid-ing my 77k and was wondering if the same theory applied. I guess watercooling is all that's left.

I delid my 7700k last week and used liquid ultra on the die... and Gelid GCExtreme on the IHS/Kraken x62.
 
I installed the 1080 Ti hybrid kit and used the same GCE.  I did not use the liquid ultra.

I saw your post about your temps and it seems really impressive. I wanna go with a custom loop, I dont like my PC to look jam-packed with those AIO hoses.

The FE cooler is a copper vapor chamber with aluminum fins soldered to it. The vapor chamber base is plated with nickel.

If you're going to use a conductive TIM then you need to cover the passive components surrounding the die with some neutral cure silicone.

DO NOT use silicone that smells like vinegar as it releases acid when it cures. The neutral cure ones have no smell and AFAIK they only release alychol as they cure. This one should be safe: https://www.google.com/search?q=077027005004

Also note that putting caulk on the card probably voids your warranty, lol.

On a delidded 4690K with liquid ultra (super conductive), never did a GPU though.

cloiselle1
You need to insulate the other parts next to the die with liquid electrical tape or laptop tape.
If you do expect more issues with a gpu Vs cpu using liquid metal.

Don't use lm on a gpu. Get a card with a real cool lmfao.

Yeah, I will be picking up a watecooling kit from EKWB. Its the only way to go.

cloiselle1
Liquid metal will still give you on average ten degrees Celsius in temperature drop but with various cooler materials the exposed package on gpu does it is much more of a risk.

A good tim like gelid extreme, tuniq tx 4 etc will give you a few degrees improvement. Usually 2-5 from my years of experience and other reviews I've looked into.

If you have a fc model cooler evgas hybrid kit or a custom cooking solution will undoubtedly bring you where you'd like to be.

Yeah for my delid I used liquid ultra on my CPU die and gelid extreme on the IHS.
 
When I added the hybrid kit to the 1080 Ti I just used gelid extreme.
 
Temps have been solid... the highest I've seen after 3 hours of gaming has been 49C for the GPU in GTA5 on 4k ultra vsynced at 60fps.  The 7700k peaked in the mid 60's.

Is EVGA saying they will invalidate warranties for using LM? I can understand if applying it incorrectly causes damage but we use LM on $2,000+ laptops running GTX 1070/1080's all the time.

Wrong.
 
https://twitter.com/alexk...tus/814592991482576898

ipkha
You'd be hard pressed to remove the liquid metal from the gpu die in case of an RMA. So in this case, yes it will void your warranty as you must put everything back. And if you short out your card due to the liquid metal it would definitely invalidate your warranty.

Put everything back? No one doing rma's is putting the factory TIM back...