Fixing the RX 5700 XT Cooler for $0.04 | Paste & Washers vs. Thermal Pad
10,447We added some washers and thermal paste to the RX 5700 XT cooler to fix some of its previously dismal performance.
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This fix uses some Thermal Grizzly Hydronaut, although we'd recommend some Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut on Amazon (https://geni.us/Jrm5Sf).
We also used 4 washers, found easily. The idea is to fix the mounting pressure issue on the RX 5700 XT cooler, a similar issue exhibited by the Radeon VII cooler. This addresses some of the thermal and temperature/noise concerns by bringing down overall GPU temperature, thus allowing lower noise levels at the same performance.
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AMD's RX 5700 XT GPU should be on Amazon here: https://geni.us/WS48
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