Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nitro+

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

1.5, better too thick than too thin. Should be easy to squish it

No sir.

They traditionally don't squish well enough and 0.5/1.0 mm should be bought, it's likely 0.5 though.

But too thick has caused a few people issues they came here for because 8 memory pads and 4/12 Vram pads can lift the Heatsink off your GPU.

I've done this fitting a water block wrong and advised to repair this issue three times for others.

 

[the_gas]

No sir.

They traditionally don't squish well enough and 0.5/1.0 mm should be bought, it's likely 0.5 though.

But too thick has caused a few people issues they came here for because 8 memory pads and 4/12 Vram pads can lift the Heatsink off your GPU.

I've done this fitting a water block wrong and advised to repair this issue three times for others.

Just had confirmation that they are 1.2MM from a user who took his apart and measured.

 

[percy4209]

Just had confirmation that they are 1.2MM from a user who took his apart and measured.

Normally you could probably use 1.5mm pads and get away with it, but not on this GPU. With it having chiplets (I assume anyway) 1.5mm pads will not work. Your GPU hotspot will peg at 110° long before you reach max clock/performance.

Kritical did sell 1.25mm pads, but I haven't found anyone else who does. All kritical pads are sold out on Amazon at the time of writing with the listings saying it may or may not be restocked. I had success stacking 0.5mm pads with a small dab of thermal paste directly on the vram chips to accomplish the 1.2mm and it greatly reduced my vram temps (even though they were quite good before hand). Just an FYI to anyone who sees this thread. I tried 1.5mm pads and had terrible results as did another user on the overclockers UK forum. I used Kritical 0.5mm pads as well.

 

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My 7900 xtx Nitro+ inside an Antec P20C.