what is the plan ... now that you have the cover removed ?

Clovis559
Nothing exciting, I don't think that far ahead. Peaking around. Want a water block.
I doofed and removed the AIO so plan is to get thermal paste and clean up my mess...
 

You may already have a favorite brand of TIM ...
 
I like MX-4 as it is easy to work, reasonable price & works well
 

Totally up to you  .. not sure you will see any big difference between some other T Griz products
 
and these wont drain your wallet so fast ... the difference in W/mK is small ... doubt its even 1 C on your GPU
 
World records ... sky is the limit for budget ...
 
Save some $$$ & look at these:
 
http://thermal-grizzly.com/en/products/16-kryonaut-en
 
http://thermal-grizzly.co...oducts/14-hydronaut-en
 
If you have never run a chiller before - go learn about dew point - because you don't want it to "rain" on your PC
 
 
I'll keep an eye out for your updates

When any part of your loop goes @ or below the dew point, then condensation (from the humidity in the room air) will form water droplets on the cold surface, until the water's surface tension can no longer hold the weight = rain or water migrating where bad things happen

Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme thermal grease has ...
 
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/thermal-grizzly-kryonaut-extreme-thermal-grease-has-thermal-c
 
(excerpt)
 
The Kryonaut Extreme thermal paste is aimed at extreme overclockers with its outstanding thermal conductivity . As its name suggests, it is ideal for low-temperature cooling such as nitrogen or compressor cooling. Compared to the Kryonaut thermal paste, the finer base particles of the Kryonaut Extreme ensure that there is less risk that the high temperature differences will result in nitrogen cooling"cracking" occurs and thermal conductivity is impaired. The Kryonaut Extreme is suitable for extremely low temperatures down to -250 ° C.

My backplate is still attached. I think it would come off now, but there is thermal pads between the backplate and the card. Everything else is attached.
 
You don't have to remove the OLED if don't want to. My case isn't visible from the outside so I just took it off.
 
The 4 shinier larger screws don't need to come off, that's for the AIO. That's where I messed up and now have to do some clean up.

Clovis559
My backplate is still attached. I think it would come off now, but there is thermal pads between the backplate and the card. Everything else is attached.
 
You don't have to remove the OLED if don't want to. My case isn't visible from the outside so I just took it off.
 
The 4 shinier larger screws don't need to come off, that's for the AIO. That's where I messed up and now have to do some clean up.

Thanks Clovis, any chance you could measure the diameter of the pump top?

emmett

Clovis559
My backplate is still attached. I think it would come off now, but there is thermal pads between the backplate and the card. Everything else is attached.
 
You don't have to remove the OLED if don't want to. My case isn't visible from the outside so I just took it off.
 
The 4 shinier larger screws don't need to come off, that's for the AIO. That's where I messed up and now have to do some clean up.

Thanks Clovis, any chance you could measure the diameter of the pump top?

 These aren't likely the best measurements, but hopefully close enough for you
2.5inch / 6.3cm ish

Indeed, that screw is there so that eVGA knows the card's heatsink has been removed.  It's not a "warranty void if removed" non-sense, just to let the RMA department know the heatsink was removed, so they know to double check that/mounting as a possible resolution to issues the card is having.
 
I know a few people did a boo-boo trying to yank the heatsink off without removing that screw first during hybrid cooler installation & were unpleasantly surprised when the PCB screamed at them. 

Mine still works, for now.... for now...
So totally not planned... The thermal paste arrived today... So I started cleaning....
 


They like their thermal paste apparently. It also looks like the block cools the plate, cooling the something underneath it.
 
Not the cleanest, it was really hard to get their paste off. Some I just peeled off in huge chunks.


 
I didn't want to do this. I went with CoolGTX recommendation and just got some $12 regular Thermal Grizzly paste. If I ever get the chance to go more exotic I can splurge for that extra degree. Also starting to wonder if I'll have enough paste by their design.
 

Thanks for posting pics of your repaste. Will need to make sure I have enough on hand if i repaste mine.

The paste should probably be making contact with the memory heat spreader, and the core, which means it isn’t going to look great, but will wick heat away from the memory as well.

I'm going out of town and then I already am going to have to redo it. My Memory temps went through the roof compared to what I had before.
When I do it next, I plan to do the die like you normally would, then add paste here 
 
 
 
The paste I removed, was some of the hardest thermal paste I've ever had to remove in my life. Like they applied it in 2006 ... Maybe because there was so much of it. But I felt like I went through an abnormal amount of cotton swabs. And you can see I even gave up at some point. When I redo it next I will get more of it off since I will have enough to replace.