If she's climbing temps after that long the room temp must be going up from the heat.

Mine games at 2130Mhz, I can only get above 2200 when I add voltage with the classified tool. 

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Be tuff as they need it to keep their warranties in tact.

That's much better than what you was getting for a spread pattern. I have also found that after using the card a couple days it helps to retighten the screws and you will find they have loosened up after the thermal pads have warmed up and let everything seat better

Didn't get to test it enough yet but I will have to attempt a remount it seems.... if that does not work properly then my luck is abysmal because it will be defo the kingpin that has convex die... this really sucks. So far gpu sits 10C below GPU die (which was only 5C difference in the morning when I installed it)

Other way around gpu die temp being a lot higher. On my AIO its always 9-10C but now its anywhere from 6C if gpu temp is on the lower side (gpu temps 38C vs gpu die 46C) or even 12C if gpu goes to 44C (gpu die 56-57). Need more time using it before i will know of its just the way the WB is or bad mount. This is how it began with my last WB too before after few hours of usage the gpu die went to 70C vs 50C on GPU. Gpu and gpu2 is within 3C tho. Kingpin has an extra gpu temp (gpu die) that you can enable on the oled. Its what made me take the gpu apart with the prev. WB and thats basically how I found out the spread does not exist.

Yeah the GPU2 temp is all fine actually. You know you can turn on GPU Die Temp in the oled monitoring when  you go all the way down, its before last one. Anyway, that one usually shows 6-12C higher temps which is scary because like I said, my AIO has 10C difference between that and normal GPU temp and my old WB went from 4C difference to eventually 20C difference to GPU being 52C and GPU DIE temp on oled 82C (that was my max, I shut it off right there because I started to get weird GPU glitches and black flashes). With AIO that never, ever happens, with WB when it works and the GPU Die temp on oled is below 80C it never, ever happens so I am just worried I got a hotspot again because of bad mount = remounting will fix it or I find out that I am just unlucky as heck lol.
Thanks to those weird glitches and the GPU DIE TEMP on oled that you can turn on hitting over 70C (82C if it was correct that one time where those glitches happened) I found out that the contact between my WB and Die was not great and it wasn't spreading at all. But that said, only had it run under load for 3-4 hours so far so I need to do at least 8-12 like last time (thats when the temps started going haywire as I wrote much earlier with previous WB)
 
update: aaaaaaand my temps started to go to hell... slowly climbing to 50C on gpu and over 65C on GPU DIE temp... time to remount in a few hours and pray its just me fluffing up the mount.

CPU socket is always higher than the CPU cores so I think that's similarly here.

There's just no way that's acceptable for the thermal paste to run off like that, what are you using?

Only when you install the hydro copper it always does that?

Hugh, that's messed up man, like it's still not making good contact. Are you getting the screws good and tight?

Scuff up the die contact on the copper block with some fine sandpaper. Then the goop has something to grip and hold.

Basically dulling the surface.

No idea if that would void warranty but I'd be desperate enough by now to try.

Could prob buff it back to a shiny surface if needed.

Using the GPU bracket? That would help stiffen the pcb around the die to get a stronger contact with the block.

Also make sure the bracket isint making contact. If you can loosen the screws to the bracket while the block is still on to see if the bracket can freely move around while the block is on.

I remember some having issues with the ftw3 copper block bracket as evga supplied longer screws for the bracket that protruded the bracket mounts and hit the block.

Or maybe they used the wrong screws.

The screws that come with it are the same as the original ones so that shouldn't be it and I thought he was using the GPU bracket as I always have without issues.

I don't think your putting in a good effort
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