Tearing Apart My New RTX 3080Ti & Reapplying Thermal Paste - EVGA FTW3 ULTRA Teardown (Newegg Now)

i've had this rtx 3080ti for almost a month now and i think it's about time we tear it apart and reapply thermal paste and by the way as to how i managed to purchase this thing i got it on newegg shuffle which is basically a free program that allows you to enter to win the chance to purchase an exclusive tech item such as the rtx 30 series graphics cards the new consoles and whatnot i entered on the first try and got really lucky so i purchased this with my own money if you want to check out newex shuffle i'll leave a link in the description for your convenience so i've only had this thing for a month why do i want to tear it apart and reapply thermal paste what does that even do thermal compound or thermal paste basically just transfers heat and i prefer to use my own thermal compound because it should be slightly higher quality and provides slightly cooler temperatures which should give me slightly more fps mostly i kind of just want to see what the pcb for this graphics card looks like so this process especially for such a new card is not necessary at all i don't want to see any comments of people saying you did this for one degree celsius cooler temps yes i did because i want to see what it looks like inside and a couple disclaimers i'm not liable for any damages you may incur this video is not a guide and this could void your warranty it probably wouldn't avoid a warranty for the evga graphics cards because evga supposedly allows you to open up your graphics cards and reapply with a fresh layer of thermal paste but the manufacturer for your graphics card could be different so i want to let you know about that and yes warranty stickers are technically illegal in the us but i'm not going to say go ahead and tear apart your graphics card so just do whatever you want to but don't blame me if anything happens but before we test this thing apart we have to heat this thing up first with the stress test and check how the temps look with the stock factory applied thermal paste before we apply around so let's go ahead and put this back inside my pc and stress test this thing all right so i put the graphics card back inside my pc we're going to stress test it first with the current thermal paste before reapplying a new layer i currently have hardware info 64 as well as task manager opened up to check the maximum gpu temperatures and we're going to use unigen heaven benchmark just to stress test it and i have it on ultra settings at 2560 by 1440p because this is a 1440p ultrawide monitor and i still want to have these tabs open up to check temps while that is running we're going to run this for about 15 minutes just to make this thing as hot as possible and see what kind of temperatures we're getting by the way i'll show the ambient room temperature like somewhere here on the screen it is currently 66.2 degrees fahrenheit all right it's been about 15 minutes you can see the maximum gpu temperature is about 74 degrees celsius we can just round it up and the gpu is currently sitting at about 73 degrees celsius uh if you want to check out the other temperatures they're right there but we're gonna focus on the gpu silicon itself i'm gonna stop this test and take out my gpu from here and then put it on that table so we can actually start to tear down all right i am back from stress testing my rtx 3080 ti for the win3 ultra edition graphics card and it is pretty hot right now so i'm going to leave it on the table just to cool down a little bit before i get my fingers on it i don't want to burn myself all right it's been a couple minutes this vpu is starting to get a little bit cooler so we can finally start the teardown i have a secondary camera over here just to film the actual teardown part itself so here's the graphics here we're going to put this on the table for the tools i'm going to use an ifixit protech tool kit i purchased this a couple years ago because it is an awesome toolkit i'm unfortunately not sponsored but uh if i fix it is watching this video please sponsor me so i love this toolkit because you get 64 different bits as well as a couple other tools on this side so for the thermal compound i have a couple different choices i have liquid metal but i don't really want to use it because although the thermal conductivity of liquid metal is incredibly high it is also electrically conductive and if the liquid metal spills around all over the place well then i can kiss my almost 2 dollar graphics card goodbye so i'm not going to use this okay but for the other thermal compounds i have that are not electrically conductive i have g gc extreme noctua nth2 arctic mx4 arctic mx5 as well as thermal grizzlies cryonot thermal grizzly cry knot is probably the highest performing of this bunch so i'll probably just stick to this for the other tools i'm going to use a spatula this is going to be the bare gpu silicon i want to make sure that every spot is covered so we're going to apply a thin layer across the entire gpu i'm also gonna use isopropyl alcohol this is just 91 from cbs pharmacy as well as some coffee filters to wipe off the thermal paste but the first step i believe we're gonna have to take out the back plate for this graphics card and then we're gonna do do some more screws disconnect the fans which are right over here these are the fan connectors and then i believe we can just pull out the pcb like this and leave the heatsink as well as the fan shroud on the bottom uh so let's just begin so i'm gonna get my ifixit protect tool kit and just uh phillips head and start by taking off some of the back plate screws let me check my camera is uh let me check my camera can see this so let's take out these screws and i'm also going to try to keep track of all these screws these screws over here all right so i think i need to unscrew this nut over here that is holding up this back plate screw so i'm going to use my fingers just to kind of unscrew this and this might take a while there's basically a small nut right here um and there it is so we can continue with the other screws we've got another screw right here i'm not going to do the gpu bracket screws yet because we can take off the back plate first but let's do this screw here more of these nuts i think there was a tool in the ifixit tool kit um like this that can unscrew it pretty quickly yep there we go ready the last screw for the back plate and this is not coming out because that nut is still down there but i don't know how i'm gonna reach this one there is a nut down here holding this screw under this evga sticker almost forgot about this screw back plate almost comes out it's just this one screw left okay i just unscrewed it now that we got the back plate off this is a metal back plate feels pretty sturdy we can put this to the side and start examining this card to see how we can pull this pcb off the heatsink so we can actually reapply thermal paste and clean up the gpu all right so now we have three screws over here holding down the i o shield that we're going to have to remove so let's get this one out one two and three and there we go this thing just removes that so we're gonna have to look around the graphics card to see any cables um that we have to disconnect so we have three fan cables right here they're blue tannish brown whatever and black color uh so these are probably the power of the three fans i also see another cable over here that i presume may be for rgb so yeah this cable right over here it's kind of just trapped in there and i can't poke my finger in there to remove it okay at least it's not as bad as nvidia's founders edition cards because uh you should have seen the 3070 and i think also the 3080 38 ti and 30 90 whatever uh they the founders decision cards had ribbon cables which are just such a pain in the butt to disconnect it's like tearing apart a laptop those things are disgusting unscrew the back plate for the gpu pull out the pcb and actually i think i could just leave that cable in there i don't remember how i did this before okay okay these cables are kind of a pain push on the clip so you can actually pull them down um so let me unscrew one corner a little bit unscrew the other corner put this to the side i believe we can just pull the pcb all right i loosened up the pcb i think we can just pull it up now and we still have this cable on this side under here so i'm gonna disconnect it now okay there we go and the pcb is pretty big a bunch of thermal putty i believe this is thicker thermal pads and then the thermal paste over here [Music] so now that we've got a quick look at the pcb isopropyl alcohol and the coffee filter to wipe off the old thermal compound right so i'm just gonna wipe this off wipe off the old paste let me put the pcb to the side first and uh grab the heat sink over here so we can wipe off the heatsink because this thing is pretty dirty and the thermal paste looks dry but it's actually just really thick paste because um manufacturers usually want to just apply a thicker paste to prevent the pump out effect prevent the thermal paste from seeping out of the sides so this piece is not actually dry it's just really thick i'm gonna make sure this cold plate is extremely clean so here is the pcb itself with the gpu all cleaned up this is the rtx 3080 ti i'm not going to do a pcb analysis so let me get some thermal grizzly cryonut unscrew the cap i think i should wipe the gpu one more time just to make sure there's no old paste there and to clean up any lint okay looks good enough let me apply a little bit bigger than a pea-sized amount on top of the gpu this looks good cap all right now that the thermal paste is on the gpu we can use the spatula to spread it around just to make sure we get even coverage across the entire die i want to make sure that every spot is covered because i do not i do not want any hot spots on the gpu i want to make sure every spot is covered uh so actually i think i need to apply more either that or this thermal grizzly crying is starting to get dry because it is not applying very easily i'm not sure why all right so yes i know this looks a little bit messy but more thermal paste on the gpu silicon is better than not enough um you definitely want to have enough because like i said i don't want any hot spots on this thing there's no heat spreader on this like a cpu um so we got to make sure every spot is covered and i don't know why this is being so difficult right now i think maybe oh and i'm running out of cry not so um yep gonna have to i think this is good enough maybe i don't maybe i don't even need to spread it anymore just trying to spread like a thin layer across this is actually kind of difficult and i think it could be because this thermal paste is drying up or something because usually thermal grizzly cryonite is like very liquidy but i don't know why this is being so difficult alright so i think this actually looks decent you can see there's a ton of thermal paste on the gpu and that's not really that big of an issue because if there's too much it'll just seep out the sides this paste is not electrically conductive unlike conductor knot which is electrically conductive so even if it does sleep on the sides it shouldn't cause any damage uh but yeah like i said it's always better to have more thermal paste on the bare seat on the bare gpu than it is to have some hot spots where you aren't covering uh the gpu because yeah i want to make sure i have even coverage throughout yeah look at that juicy thermal paste hopefully this triggers some people if this triggers you let me know in the comments all right i think we're good now put the thermal paste on i uh i didn't really touch the thermal pad so now we can flip this over back onto the heatsink and then screw everything down connect the fans and then check out the temperatures so let's go ahead and do that now all right before we put my graphics card back together let's take a look at the heatsink so you can see there's this large copper cold plate over here that is great as well as uh six heat pipes that are pretty large and a huge aluminum fin stack yeah this thing it's pretty heavy too so so now that we've had a quick glance at the heatsink as well as the pcb and the gpu uh we can just lower this down put it back together so let me see if i can actually um put this cable back first yeah let me lower this down line up the cable see if i can plug it in all right i got in that cable um so we can just kind of lower this down and uh i can plug in the fan cables a little bit later but let me zoom out and i also kind of have to line it up make sure that i get this right um all right it's pretty much lined up so first things first let's put this gpu back plate back on um so let me get a screwdriver and i'm gonna make sure i apply equal torque or as equal torque as i can to each corner so i'm gonna do that corner a little bit this corner uh the opposite corner and then this corner just to make sure there's even mounting pressure there we go so this is pretty much fully in let me double check it we want to make sure there's enough mounting pressure on the gpu so that it's adequately cooled okay so we can put the um next up we can put the fan cables back in so here are the fan cables right here push it in all right that one's in uh so we gotta line up this one this one's not lining up straight i don't know why this one's not lining up right okay oh i got it in got it okay let me double check screw back on the i o cover so i'm just gonna cover it like this this nut over here that has to be tightened but this one down here is impossible to read one under the evga sticker that i believe they just use uh i believe they just use stickers so they can see if you uh torn apart the graphics card okay i actually managed to get the last screw and nut in by using tweezers so i basically just had to lower it down and then twist it using tweezers just to get it in there all right so let's go over to my pc install this thing and then stress test it to see if temperatures have changed sitting around 72 73 degrees celsius about so after all that dropped about half a degree to one degree celsius and that's all right i mean is it really significant not really but uh yeah this process isn't really that necessary especially for such a new graphics card the pace hasn't really dried up yet it's still pretty much brand new so i wouldn't really recommend this for such a new graphics card but if you have an old graphics card that you've used for at least two to three years i would highly recommend replacing the thermal paste because usually when paste dries up and it gets all cracked it isn't as effective as when it was new if you enjoyed this video please like and subscribe i'll link new x shuffle as well as this rtx 3080 ti in the description if you want to check it out

Channel: TonyTechBytes

Views: 36,531

Keywords: RTX 3080Ti, EVGA RTX 3080Ti, TonyTechBytes, EVGA RTX 3080Ti Teardown, EVGA RTX 3080Ti FTW3, EVGA RTX 3080Ti FTW3 ULTRA Teardown, Thermal Paste, Repaste GPU

Id: enSOlr7THIY

Length: 16min 1sec (961 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 05 2021