Astral 5090 waterblock, install problem or typical results?

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Memory1 gets strangely hot compared to everything else 58.5C vs 43.9C for Memory2 under only ~500W game load. Does anyone know exactly where the Memory1 sensor is? Given that the ASUS app is reporting something slightly different.

Also, the board seems to have a lot of thermal mass, taking minutes to reach and fall back from high temperature, even though the water temperature only moves a small amount? Maybe that's normal, but just surprised by that. In the screenshot below, each block should be about 15 seconds, so about 2 minutes to come back to near-idle temps, while water temp doesn't move much (EC_TEMP1)

Which specific thermal pads are on here, if I have to get replacements after I open it up, hopefully from Amazon? Also I'm current using Duronaut on the GPU but might switch to a PTM if I have to repaste it.

 

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Memory1 gets strangely hot compared to everything else 58.5C vs 43.9C for Memory2 under only ~500W game load. Does anyone know exactly where the Memory1 sensor is? Given that the ASUS app is reporting something slightly different.

Also, the board seems to have a lot of thermal mass, taking minutes to reach and fall back from high temperature, even though the water temperature only moves a small amount? Maybe that's normal, but just surprised by that. In the screenshot below, each block should be about 15 seconds, so about 2 minutes to come back to near-idle temps, while water temp doesn't move much (EC_TEMP1)

Which specific thermal pads are on here, if I have to get replacements after I open it up, hopefully from Amazon? Also I'm current using Duronaut on the GPU but might switch to a PTM if I have to repaste it.

Hi, did you take out all the 13 pcs transport spacer before install the block?

I have the same Astral RTX5090 and just done the Alphacool GPU block on it yesterday, in manual it just said discard 4pcs of transport spacer which i think is misleading, as the picture shown all the screw hole are free from spacer, so i take out all. Anyway, i just done the block + GPU sandwich this morning, haven't completed the loop yet, will let you know probably by tonight or tomorrow for the result.