darkheran
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Video entitled "How to Install Thermal Pad Mod on EVGA GTX 1080 & 1070" on Gamers Nexus channel.
Just wondering what anyone makes of these comments made by someone named 'acnfanmanin':
"THATS NOT WHERE YOU PUT THE FRONT THERMAL PAD. You should put it on the HOTTEST part which is ON the baseplate itself. Those things you put on top of are CHOKES which doesnt get hot and dont mind being hot. You want the baseplate to be cold so it can cool the mosfets."
"No you're not supposed to put it on top of the chokes is what I'm saying. those things don't need cooling (look at motherboards and watercooling blocks they're never cooled) so you're wasting thermal pad contact area putting it there. You're better off putting it on the baseplate area on the right of the chokes because the mosfets which do get VERY hot are located under there connected to the baseplate."
"if EVGA told them to put it on the chokes...wt*...you're basically trying to cool a piece of copper...why"
But those are already cooled by the massive slab on the back. If i look at my own card with a light, the back seems the only way to give them extra cooling unless you want to remove the middle plate aswell.
Yes and putting anything beyond the mid plate in that section is still useless I would think if you only draw the heat to the midplate unless you added another pad above the midplate lol. Plus if you look at other aftermarket designs they seem to have pads on chokes too www.imgur.com/a/XGgn6#e7vLgBa
darkheran you save me time with the pictures with the link above, today I start to see what other manufactures do with their cooler and collect pictures to edit.
acxcoolerssuck I have the same thought to cut a pad strip only for the chokes only and place this strip on top of the chokes, just like msi.
All of you talk about the vrm the last pages I also have some thoughts and start some search.
I search to find how the other manufacturers make their cooling systems,
they doesn't have thermalpad to backplate and baseplate, that include the don't cover the whole pcb. The fix with thermal pads that lower the temps 5C it's not a totaly fix, because the temps are trapped at thermal pads and that's why we see lower temps (personal opinion).
1)The baseplate has not contact with heatsink and has between them a gap about 1mm.
2)Also the thermalpad that supposed to put between baseplate and heatsink, to the point are location the VRM's under the baseplate they had thermal pad, so if we put the pad over the baseplate to same location as the intructions gave us EVGA it has no effect to cool the vRM's area.
3)The thermalpad for the backplate it was not necessary, hasn't point to put.
I believe EVGA must desighn/make again the baseplate, that can throught direct air to vrm's area.
From the others manufactures the MSI,Zotac has the prefered system to cool the vrm's with the passive heatsink on them (that "hitted" with air).
Here are pictures
FTW

MSI and Zotac with same passive heatsink on vrm's
asus,gigabyte, gainward have the same way to cool diect the vrm's