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Yeah, I'm a little bit bemused by some of the temps I'm seeing here tbh. Lots of people seem to be reporting temps in the 60's with the stock BIOS, which - given I'm currently maxing at 67 on air (admittedly with a LM re-paste and pad swap) with the 520W BIOS - just seems way too high to me...

ReLApS, That's absolutely awesome, mate. Thank you so much for the quick reply! I definitely like the idea of doing what you've done with the cut to measure tubing, so I'll wait for advice from AC, but I'm pretty sure I'll be doing it that way too tbh. If you can update me how things turn...

Hi Thomas, I'm interested in doing a similar setup, only with a 480mm Monsta rad. Is there anything special I need to do other than swap out the radiator in this shopping list? Also, curious as to what the advantage is of using the hose extensions you've recommended is vs something like what...

Awesome work on all of our behalf! ??? Thanks, Eddy! ??

I think that's the issue with them being a custom size, i.e. you can't buy them at retail anywhere. Your best bet is to try a 1mm pad that's squishier than the 40 hardness one I used, and hope that it squishes down okay. If you're using thermal paste as a TIM then that might grant you some...

It's an aluminium fin stack..the cold plate is nickel plated copper. I can't recall a card that's used an aluminium cold plate in quite some time thankfully! XD

Yeah, this is all exactly in line with what I found when I did the thermal pad swap, and when I did the liquid metal TIM swap before that (I think I was probably the guy you're quoting about the screw tightening and the liberal LM application...I'm the guy that made his own cooler using 140mm...

Sorry, but this isn't entirely correct... I've attached the actual specs from Palit for doing a thermal pad swap, however their rep's recommendation was not to, because some of the custom sizes they used were such a PITA to recreate using off the shelf products. Obviously I did it anyway, and...

Well, all of the topside VRAM modules and the back of the GPU core are directly beneath the AOE of that fan. It obviously helps that there's a bit of a cutout there on the backplate (for the 4 GPU retention plate screws) for it to suck air up from. As yeah, if it weren't there then I'm not sure...

I'll just link the Imgur and Reddit post if that's okay, as all the information/photos is already in there. 520W BIOS is available here https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/227017/evga-rtx3090-24576-201110

Seen a few people discuss EVGA 500W/KPE 520W BIOS on here. Essentially the EVGA 500W will raise your temps by about 5° across the board with the stock cooler in place; which is partly because I believe the EVGA BIOS sends more power to the core and less to the memory than the Palit BIOS...

Don't want to get my hopes up, but sounds promising! It's summer where I am, and I've done as much as I can to keep this card cool without a waterblock (deshroud and 2 x Noctua Industrial 140mms + LM repaste), but it's still not enough to combat the 30°+ ambient temps I'm doing battle with...