Time to change thermal pad on memory?

FP91G

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Quote from: Crypt0Gore on February 27, 2022, 06:28:38 AM

It's hard to install thermal pad on Vega cards, if you got the wrong pad your mem temp will increase alot, I stay away from AMD cards for few reasons like this one, Nvidia graphic cards are the best.

Do you think if you install the wrong thickness thermal pad on an nvidia graphics card, it will work fine?
Replacing thermal pads on AMD and Nvidia graphics cards is the same if you have a good tool
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1000005101004.html
Determining the thickness of thermal pads with a regular ruler can give an error.

Pendrak

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Quote from: Crypt0Gore on February 27, 2022, 06:28:38 AM

It's hard to install thermal pad on Vega cards, if you got the wrong pad your mem temp will increase alot, I stay away from AMD cards for few reasons like this one, Nvidia graphic cards are the best.

"if you got the wrong pad your mem temp will increase alot"
Joke?

This apply to any gpu out there, not only AMD ones.

ANSEL_2.0

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Trying to visit hive OS forum and search for your issue you will see many miners using Vega 56 and 64 gpus at 74 °C temp on memory I believe your GPU is working the way it's supposed to, no need to change thermal pad.

Crypt0Gore

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It's hard to install thermal pad on Vega cards, if you got the wrong pad your mem temp will increase alot, I stay away from AMD cards for few reasons like this one, Nvidia graphic cards are the best.

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Don’t change the Thermal pads. The temperature is perfectly fine. If you change them there is a good chance you won’t buy the right ones and you will either have overheating issues on the memory due to the pads being too thin or you will have overheating issues on the core due to the pads being too thick.

For some reason it’s very difficult to source the correct pads for the memory and VRMs components. Many suppliers sell you the wrong material or size/thickness and you pretty much dig the old ones out of the garbage and put them back in, at least that’s how it was for me.

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Moon.win

If your friend was running the card at a cooler temp then change the location of the motherboard but honestly the temp on mem isn't bad, you can increase fan speed as well if you have table fan in your home you can also add this but for vega cards 75°C isn't a cause for alarm.

Zotak337

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You have nothing to worry about, most Vega 56 I've seen mining on YouTube are hashing away at 60+ temp and 70+ on mem temp this is how an HBM2 memory is supposed to work.

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Quote from: Rikimaruu on February 26, 2022, 09:58:10 AM

I got a Vega 56 from a friend and the temp reach 60°C when mining ETH using HiveOS but the memory temp is up to 74°C is this normal mem temp it something to worry about?

On the reference video cards, the temperatures are 5 degrees Celsius less, the one that you have good results. If the temperature of the video cheat does not rise above 75°C and the memory temperature does not exceed 85°C, I would not change anything. And I would clean the dust as needed, or 1 time in 4-6 months.

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I got a Vega 56 from a friend and the temp reach 60°C when mining ETH using HiveOS but the memory temp is up to 74°C is this normal mem temp it something to worry about?

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