The owner of the graphics card, who acts as “antonyjeweet” on the reddit, decided to improve the memory cooling. These reached up to 110 ° C, which is still in the specifications of GDDR6X, but it is already a bit more for the ratios of these memories. GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 are known for higher memory temperatures, so the user was not too surprised, but wanted to replace the thermal cushions (“chewing gum”) with better ones.
After dismantling the heatsink, he was surprised that there was a slightly baked latex finger cover between the memories and the heatsink in addition to the cushion. After its removal and subsequent care, the memory temperature dropped to a more tolerable 86 ° C.
VideoCardz believes that in factories that assemble GeForce graphics cards from the Nvidia Founders Edition series, workers use these sleeves to avoid leaving fingerprints on the cards. But who knows…
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