nVidia's RTX 3090 is a beast of a GPU featuring the latest Ampere architecture with 10,496 CUDA cores and 24GB GDDR6X. Like many products these days it's suffering from limited availability, but I finally managed to acquire one. The 3090 replaces my aging GTX 1070 Ti FTW2 as the primary gamer and boosts my daggerhashimoto rate for Ethereum mining. Unfortunately the 3090 cooling system is not well suited for mining workloads and upon firing up NiceHash, the VRAM temperature quickly reached 110C and began throttling due to excessive heat. Searching the web I found a solution - replacement of the stock thermal pads with higher efficiency aftermarket pads . There are two paths - replacement of all thermals pads front and back or replacement of just the back. I elected to do a full replacement (as it's not terribly difficult to continue once the card is torn apart) and followed CryptoAtHome's YouTube guide . -WARNING- This process may void the warranty of your GPU and carri
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