Hi everyone,today the grizzly kryonaut arrived with the new power supply and I just wanted to ask you what screws do I have to get off the card in order to clean out the old paste and put the new one.The 1080 ti I'm using is a 1080 ti Black Gaming Edition.
Also what should I use to clean the old paste on the gpu die?Is a little piece of cloth enough?
Thanks.
 

Thanks for the fast answer! Do I also have to put the thermal paste on the cooler plate that direclty touches the die ?

You can find the isopropyl alcohol at a pharmacy or grocery store in the pharmacy area. Comes in different percentages. Like 70,80,99% pure.. you want 99% if you can find it. That means when it dries (In like seconds) it leaves no residue behind.

You should also use a qtip soaked in it to clean up around those tiny microchips around the die.

Pro tip to making the die super clean. Hit it one last time with the alcohol and quickly buff it with a dry paper towel before it dries and it will be streak free.

Mx-4 is good stuff and one of my favs i should stick with..

Recently been using Gelid Solutions GC-Extreme and a week ago when I had to remove my evga 1080 classified water blocks I seen on one card that I had only have the die with compound! I'm even pretty sure I used the star method. :/ crazy.. like someone whipped half the side of the die off! Cooled fine though below 40c on load somehow for a year haha

the_Scarlet_one
It would definitely be 40, where the temp sensor was, but did you ever experience random stuttering or black screens that were very intermittent? If so, the half of the die not covered may have been angry or overheating.

I legit installed a water lock on one 980ti and installed it and ran it for about 30 minutes. It got up to about 55c... I was like, that isn’t right, drained the entire loop, pulled the card, removed the block, and immediately facepalmed... I had got distracted and never put even a micron of Tim on the gpu. (I told zophar about this when it happened, and I am legit embarrassed I did it) yeah.... ek waterblocks keep your card relatively cool even without Tim, lol!

Anyway, back to the OP. Retimming the cards are easy, just take your time.

Nope! Card ran 2190mhz all day long and never had an issue haha.. a whole year like that.

Ok guys so yesterday I tried to remove the whole heatsink to put the new grizzly kryonaut tim and it didnt work at all.
I removed only the 4 big main screws and nothing moved from his place.
Should I also remove the other 16 mini screws?Do I have to remove the dvi support screws too?
I need help because I am getting bad temperatures on max load and I wanted to try with the new TIM to see if I could somehow solve a bit of the problem.
I have never opened gpu so I am not an expert of these things :(

I am really afraid of demaging the card...

Hi again,so yesterday night I watched a video about the sc2 and I menaged to get off the heatsink all the 7 big screws,but now I got another problem,the led and the fan connectors...
How do I disconnect them without demaging them?

It is impossible to remove those connectors...even with a tweezer these little things dont want to move from their place :(

Ok so I finally menaged to remove the connectors and put the new tim kryonaut.
From 80° celsius to 60° and the warranty is still avaiable.
A BIG thanks to everyone,I almost cried when I saw that everything worked nice :')

Sweet! Nice Going!

 
Nice temp drop.     

AHowes

the_Scarlet_one
It would definitely be 40, where the temp sensor was, but did you ever experience random stuttering or black screens that were very intermittent? If so, the half of the die not covered may have been angry or overheating.

I legit installed a water lock on one 980ti and installed it and ran it for about 30 minutes. It got up to about 55c... I was like, that isn’t right, drained the entire loop, pulled the card, removed the block, and immediately facepalmed... I had got distracted and never put even a micron of Tim on the gpu. (I told zophar about this when it happened, and I am legit embarrassed I did it) yeah.... ek waterblocks keep your card relatively cool even without Tim, lol!

Anyway, back to the OP. Retimming the cards are easy, just take your time.

Nope! Card ran 2190mhz all day long and never had an issue haha.. a whole year like that.

That's one hell of an overclock! That on the 1080ti with the EK block?
What was your OC before the water block? Was it much different?


Watched a fairly recent video from jayz2cents (he had KingPin in his studio to do a LN2 OC on a card), and he stated that on air/water the maximum OC on any 1080 card is 2113Mhz, and the vast majority (like 95% or more) will be unstable on something.
Bench tests are not a good indicator of pure stability - I can get my card to go to 2113, but it never stays there, and instabilities start creeping in.
I had a 'stable' air OC on my EVGA 1080FTW of 2088Mhz, until I played BF1 and kept getting intermittent crashes or lock-ups. It was the OC that I had thought was rock solid - had to reduce the memory OC a little and all good again, stable at 2063Mhz.
That's using secondary BIOS with max voltage/power and my system cooling is fantastic.