So no paste is needed for thermal pads. Take the old ones off. Measure the length and the width the thermal pads are sticky on both sides. Place them over the chips and VRMs and then plug in any wires on the GPU, put the cover on, screw it in and the plug into the system and away you go

If you want to change the pads I'd suggest buying some fujipoly thermal pads in 1.0mm thickness. 91% is fine to use. This backplate will fit your card.

Sajin
If you want to change the pads I'd suggest buying some fujipoly thermal pads in 1.0mm thickness. 91% is fine to use. This backplate will fit your card.

I plan on using the Artic MX-4 for the GPU and CPU if needed. Just purchased one. Thanks.

http://www.frozencpu.com/...tl=c487s1730b178#blank

my GTX 750 cooler has a surface on it like a CPU cooler. I use a small amount of MX-4 and it works perfect.
 
 

No problem.

Oh I haven't bothered to ordered them yet. I intend to. I will post back updates! The doc is about to do some work! I'll report in when I can. I still would love to purchase a EVGA 2060 since I currently recently built a new PC. A lot of people say that Ray Tracing cards are a waste of money but the 2060 is a good budget card. I was leaning towards another 1060 but a 1070 or 1080 would be nice. However I want what is the best. I have to get a new monitor soon which needs to support 75hz at 1080p. No idea if 144hz would be good. I want the best to last. My current monitor is from 2014 and it's a BENQ GW2450 and it's old as heck! 
 
Oh yea no idea where to buy the best Display Port cable too. Want the best for heavy PC gaming.
 
No idea what else to say but I do need to upgrade my SSD. I may need to update more of my drivers for my chipset and whatnnot. Haven't contacted Intel and Asus about it. Been having problems finding what I need but it shouldn't be too hard to do so to install.
 
Least last I need a new SSD or buy one of these M.2 NVE SSD cards but I have zero experience with those.
 
 
 
i7 8700k Stock Clocks
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3000mhz Corsair Ram RGB Pro
EVGA 1060 6gb SSC (currently)
Corsair RMx 750 watt
Samsung 830 256gb
Seagate SSHD 1TB
Corsair Cooler H100i RGB Pro
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Are you able to flip the thermal pads on the card and use the other side that is currently in the card or would that not make any difference at all?  I need to order those damn pads!

I use Furmark to determine if a card is thermally stable.
 
My GTX 750 and GTX 1060 need only 4 screws to dissect them. I use MX-4 on the logic in extremely small amounts and it seems to be ideal.
 
Long cards usually need MX-4 on the regulators too. Depends on the way the cooler is designed. I have repaired a lot of cards.
 

I found pads that I could find were made with silicone which performs poorly so I used MX-4 on regulators and it works on them
 
The GTX 260 SC I fixed due to overheating used a complex cooler over the card that was fairly good. It allowed me to use MX-4 successfully and the card has worked fine since with temperatures so much lower than it was even new.

veganfanatic
I found pads that I could find were made with silicone which performs poorly so I used MX-4 on regulators and it works on them
 
The GTX 260 SC I fixed due to overheating used a complex cooler over the card that was fairly good. It allowed me to use MX-4 successfully and the card has worked fine since with temperatures so much lower than it was even new.

Wait what? You put thermal paste on the phase regulators? I thought you weren't supposed to put thermal compound under your thermal pads? That's what those thermal pads are for? Can I do this for my EVGA 1060 6GB SSC?  I only re-applied the gpu processor? Was I misinformed here? EVGA tech support said don't put thermal paste on the pads and just replace them or leave them be but replace the thermal paste so I assume I probably misread something?  Am I really supposed to take off those thermal pads and re-apply thermal?  What about using the same pads? How am I supposed to use the same pads? Are there thermal already under there? I have rubbing alcohol 91%. I could fix this right now. Get back to me so I can get to the bottom of this.
 
Thanks man.

What's a good normal temp for a EVGA 1060 SSC 6GB card can go up to? I notice it went up to 74c benchmark on Assassin Creed games. Everything else is fine.

Sajin
Yes, you can flip them and reuse them.

I haven't flipped them at all. Would that affect anything? I don't really have high temps at the moment. Does it make any difference?

Gotcha.