"Fixing" High Memory Temps On My Dell RTX 3080...

**Dell RTX 3080: A Deep Dive into Its Design and Performance**

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**A Quick Tear Down to Reveal Its Inner Working**

When I first got my hands on this Dell 3080, I was quite impressed with its relatively low temperatures and noise. However, upon closer inspection, I noticed something interesting about its construction. Let's do a quick tear down so I can show you what I found.

**The Plastic Clip and Thermal Pads**

I discovered that the card has a plastic clip on the front that wedges it into the Alienware case. This is likely to prevent the card from flailing around during shipping. Upon further examination, I noticed some serious thermal pads on the back here. Yes, oh no! It's like that thermal putty which is really annoying to replace.

**The Heat Pipe and Fin Stack**

However, there is even a heat pipe on the back plate, which is pretty cool. Oh, I missed a couple screws! Wow, that's quite the thermal paste application. Now, here's the bottom of the cooler. I'm not surprised that we've got decent temperatures with it. We've got some big heat pipes and a reasonable amount of fin stack. It's not a bad cooler.

**The Metal Plate for Memory and Power Delivery**

Under that cooler, we have this metal plate that makes direct contact with the memory and power delivery to cool it. However, this plate isn't thermally connected with like thermal pads or whatever to the main cooler. This is an interesting design choice, and I'm not sure what to make of it.

**The Thermal Paste Experiment**

Now, high on my small but significant success, I decided to push things a little bit further and just thermal paste couple an air cooler to the back plate of the 3080 and see if that makes any difference. Just for the hell of it, unfortunately, we do have an air cooler in the system that we're using.

**The Results**

So, it's been about half an hour now, and I have to say subjectively, it has actually felt smoother running like the frame pacing has been better. But let's see what the memory temperatures are now! Hey, it's actually made a difference. We've lost about eight degrees. It's not a huge difference, but not everything has to make a massive difference. It's progress.

**Conclusion**

With that, thank you for watching until the next video bye-bye!