I put this off for way too long…

I got a second-hand 3090 Strix about a year and a half ago, didn’t think too much of the thermals and the pour fan noise, as I knew these cards run hotter than normal. I finally noticed my hotspot temp was shooting up to like 105C in the PUBG main menu and thought it couldn’t hurt to repaste and change the pads.

With a near-perfect undervolt, matching stock performance, under full load my hot-spot sits now at 75C when running heaven benchmark for over 30 minutes. Memory junction temp sits right at 74C and core never goes above 65. Thoroughly impressed with the results.

This was achieved with using Kritical Pads 3090 custom set and Arctic MX6. I really love this paste for GPU’s because of how dense it is. I know people say that Kritical Pads takes like 4 weeks to ship, but mine literally arrived in 3 days so I can’t complain.