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Anyone successfully repad Dell Alienware 3080's?
Posted on 4/15/26 at 3:13 pm
Posted on 4/15/26 at 3:13 pm
We have a couple of the Dell Alienware RTX 3080 (oem) GPUs, which are working ok but get hot. My son has tried to change pads, we get temps down but the vram stays hot (96-104).
First attempt: Arctic 1mm, with Noctua thermal paste. gpu temp 70's- low 80s, vram 100+ when gaming or furmark. 1440k
2nd attempt Arctic 1.5mm, vram dropped to 70's, but GPU was 80's-90s
3rd attempt Gelid 1mm, GPU back in the mid 70's, VRAM back into high 90's to 100+
Most recent is reseating pads, now using Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut paste, 75 for GPU, vram about 100.
Goal is to get GPU to stay low 70s, but VRAM down below 90.
I've seen some people say they can get things down, but we haven't yet.
2 platforms- a Dell Alienware Aurora R13 (yes, we know there's cooling issues with this case), and then a Corsair 4000D case with a Asus Z790 mb.
Temps in the non-alienware is running GPU low 70s, vram low 90s. He's swapped the GPUs back and forth, no significant difference between cards, both slightly cooler in the non Alienware.
fwiw, cpu's are both 12 gen with liquid cooler. The Corsair case has a i9 12900F which we pulled from the Alienware, with an EVGA 240 cooler, and it runs low-mid 40s. We put an i7 12700KF into the Alienware with the Alienware 120mm cryotech cooler, it gets as hot as 80.
Games would be stuff like Deadspace Remastered, or Helldivers 2, at 1440 on a 2k monitor. FPS tends to be 120ish, a bit lower with Helldivers. The i9 does run faster.
First attempt: Arctic 1mm, with Noctua thermal paste. gpu temp 70's- low 80s, vram 100+ when gaming or furmark. 1440k
2nd attempt Arctic 1.5mm, vram dropped to 70's, but GPU was 80's-90s
3rd attempt Gelid 1mm, GPU back in the mid 70's, VRAM back into high 90's to 100+
Most recent is reseating pads, now using Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut paste, 75 for GPU, vram about 100.
Goal is to get GPU to stay low 70s, but VRAM down below 90.
I've seen some people say they can get things down, but we haven't yet.
2 platforms- a Dell Alienware Aurora R13 (yes, we know there's cooling issues with this case), and then a Corsair 4000D case with a Asus Z790 mb.
Temps in the non-alienware is running GPU low 70s, vram low 90s. He's swapped the GPUs back and forth, no significant difference between cards, both slightly cooler in the non Alienware.
fwiw, cpu's are both 12 gen with liquid cooler. The Corsair case has a i9 12900F which we pulled from the Alienware, with an EVGA 240 cooler, and it runs low-mid 40s. We put an i7 12700KF into the Alienware with the Alienware 120mm cryotech cooler, it gets as hot as 80.
Games would be stuff like Deadspace Remastered, or Helldivers 2, at 1440 on a 2k monitor. FPS tends to be 120ish, a bit lower with Helldivers. The i9 does run faster.
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