Poor memory backplate cooling. Minus one star for poor memory cooling under the backplate
Liquid cooling is mainly aimed at the core, and it does a good job, with any overclocking the core temperature averages 45C. But the cooling of the memory is not very good. From the front, where the core is, heat from the memory is transferred through the plate to the adjacent water block of the core. It was possible to make the water block larger so that it also covers the memory. There is no water on the back of the card. And it’s not clear why they didn’t make a sandwich. This is the same 3090 and the memory is on the back of the printed circuit board, and it heats up under 100C, and only a small metal plate removes heat. As a result, the cooling needs to be improved. Or put a large needle-shaped radiator through the thermal spacers on the backplate. Or put an active backplate on the water from the ekwb.
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