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Hello,
I got a Gigabyte GTX1070 G1 Gaming for one of my kids, and the cooler seems not too effective (ive cleaned it, and replaced thermal pads, etc) . It is FAR louder than any card ive had before, and runs pretty warm. Ive been looking into options, but ive never had to get an aftermarket cooler for a GPU, so i figured it might be smart to ask around. I see companies like Arctic cooling have items like the accelero (but they are pretty ugly) . Id like to find a AIO option, but the ones ive found are ridiculously priced. Based on my experience with GPU cooling, my guess is poor heatsink design, the damn heatpipes are split right in the middle of the GPU chip, which makes Zero sense to me. The 1080 version has 3 or more pipes too, the 2 the 1070 has dont seem great, or atleast they arent in my case.
this is the HS design, those pipes are placed poorly IMO. but regardless, this thing is loud aF, and id like to improve its cooling, so here i am.
As an FYI to anyone who might need to know the Thermal pad sizes (as theyre listed incorrectly in the places ive looked, the RAM is .5mm, the other strip next on the right is 1mm, and the strip furthest to the right in the pic above is actually 2mm (not listed that way anywhere i looked, but it is 2mm)
I appreciate any helpful suggestions.
I got a Gigabyte GTX1070 G1 Gaming for one of my kids, and the cooler seems not too effective (ive cleaned it, and replaced thermal pads, etc) . It is FAR louder than any card ive had before, and runs pretty warm. Ive been looking into options, but ive never had to get an aftermarket cooler for a GPU, so i figured it might be smart to ask around. I see companies like Arctic cooling have items like the accelero (but they are pretty ugly) . Id like to find a AIO option, but the ones ive found are ridiculously priced. Based on my experience with GPU cooling, my guess is poor heatsink design, the damn heatpipes are split right in the middle of the GPU chip, which makes Zero sense to me. The 1080 version has 3 or more pipes too, the 2 the 1070 has dont seem great, or atleast they arent in my case.
this is the HS design, those pipes are placed poorly IMO. but regardless, this thing is loud aF, and id like to improve its cooling, so here i am.
As an FYI to anyone who might need to know the Thermal pad sizes (as theyre listed incorrectly in the places ive looked, the RAM is .5mm, the other strip next on the right is 1mm, and the strip furthest to the right in the pic above is actually 2mm (not listed that way anywhere i looked, but it is 2mm)
I appreciate any helpful suggestions.
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