Alphacool Core Geforce RTX 5080 Prime + Thermal Grizzly GPU Guard

[Bert84]

Hey there!

I am planning to watercool my ASUS RTX 5080 Prime with the Alphacool Core. For thermal compund i will go with Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut Extreme Liquid Metal. To shield the smds around the gpu core from the LM, i have looked up the Thermal Grizzly GPU Guard, which is some sort of very compressible foam.

Now my question :

Are Alphacool Core Gpu blocks compatible with this kind of solution? ...or should i put just some protective coating on it (like in my previous builds).

Thanks in advance!

PS:
product in question

TG GPU Guard - NVIDIA 4090, 5090, 5080

Highly compressible foam gasket for NVIDIA GPUs. 9-piece set with 3x each for RTX 5090, 5080, and 4090.

www.thermal-grizzly.com

 

[Eddy]

I can't answer that for you. We don't test things like that, and personally I don't know anyone who uses liquid metal or those kinds of frames on a GPU.

 

[Bert84]

Thank you anyway. I will just use trial and error... if not i will apply a protective coating like usual.