Since the original Gainward pads usually tear irreversibly when removed and also really stick to the PCB or the cooler, the user did some research, asked the manufacturer for the right sizes and then went for a replacement. In the picture we see pads with partly extreme and above all sharp-edged marks (right) and less pronounced marks on the left side, which is already suspicious.
If you also look at the imprint of the thermal paste on the heatsink of the cooler with the missing or too small amount of paste on the left edge, then you already know two things. The contact pressure on the left is too low and as a result, the GPU temperature also gets too high, because the cooling of the huge TU102 is no longer optimally guaranteed. Aside from the fact that it’s way too much paste. If, despite this large amount, you can’t get a whole-area balance, you also know that, at least on the left side, the pads are too high.
By the way, the pads were generally too high, although according to the imprint they actually corresponded exactly to what the manufacturer had also recommended. What the buyer didn’t consider: Gainward uses pads that are heavily oversized in height with a deliberately chosen extremely low degree of hardness (Shore A), which is even below 15 (Arctic for example 25). In the table I have once an approximate listing of what one could expect:
| SHORE A | Example |
| 0 | Gelatine (“jelly”) |
| 10 | Soft gummy bears |
| 12 to 20 | Ultra-soft pads |
| 21 to 30 | Normal pads |
| 31 to 40 | Hard pads |
| 50 to 70 | Car tyres |
| 100 | Hard plastic |
What Gainward (Palit) themselves use as original pads is no less nasty, just different. The image below shows my Gainward RTX 2080 Phoenix GS, which is similarly built and uses the same pads in the original as the ones the user had painstakingly removed. They are ultra-soft, extremely sticky pads with thicknesses between one and 2.5 mm or 3 mm. As a layman, you quickly no longer get through and especially with the intermediate sizes often fails the retail.
Why Gainward uses such pads, you will find out on the next but one page, now it’s time for cleaning!
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