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everyone so we had an issue that we ran into with the GTX 1060 hybrid build after part 2 this is a quick update showing how I think we're gonna resolve its this coverage is brought to you by MSI and their new GTX 1060 gaming X which has the aforementioned Twin Frozr 6 cooler so I filed down the edges of this basically socket on the base plate and that was done because this protrusion on the copper cold plate of the EVGA cooler would not fit in there but then shortly after that I had another problem we did have to remove the thermal paste again because of what's about to happen here this was not making full contact so we actually only got partial coverage and you can tell actually by looking at the thermal paste so obviously we can't see down in there very well and because we can't see in there very well the there's no good way to see if there's contact being made other than to pull the thing off and look at the die and see what the thermal paste coverage is and it was not a lot it was only on the very edges so when I turn this thing on I notice there's a problem because idle temperatures were pretty high and we just shut it down immediately pulled it apart and found out that it wasn't was making full contact and that's just because the GPU die doesn't have enough height to come up so that it's over whatever threshold this was called blade is meeting halfway between the socket and the protrusion so there's some space in there so I bought a bunch of these these are shims that are actually labeled on take a bottom on Amazon they're labeled as shims for GPS and CPUs and there's a lot of them out there so the goal here basically thermal paste will go on either side and then this shim will sit right there and then we'll seal it down really with this stuff if the manual does recommend using half the tube for each application we've only got half the tube left the lights are blinding me so I'm gonna use most of it here we can be a bit generous it'll spread out we should be good to go that's actually it's actually a little bit under what the manual calls for but I'll do that for now let me see if I can actually like siphon some of this into the tube that would be pretty sweet that actually work oh man that is awesome okay so I think until we get the tool to really do a circle pattern we can just fill this up which is pretty sweet let's try this out I'm only gonna put a little bit extra on here else it just spits a ton of it out all at once oh it's working nice okay well that's a lot of thermal paste but whatever doesn't matter it so you either put it on here first or on the cold plate I think we're gonna put it on there it seems like it's got a pretty good hold in a perfect world you have perfectly flat surfaces of copper in such an environment it would actually be worse to use thermal paste basically there's microscopic imperfections in the surface and those are filled with thermal paste which will eliminate air pockets yep that's it okay so there we have it this thing's actually on there now I can see plain and clear that the protrusion looks to be making contact with the shim the copper xem so now there's one of these in there between the cold plate we've got some thermal paste on it I also discovered I was able to siphon thermal paste into this tube which makes me tremendously happy that's my that's my favorite discovery out of this project now so I'll put the rest of this on we're not gonna show it cuz we already did that in episode 2 you missed episode two and one check those out for the teardown on Episode one or part one that will show you the internals of the card part two shows the process that looks like it goes exceedingly smoothly until it doesn't and this which is not really part three but more of DLC add-on shows the the issue we encountered in parts two and three so check back subscribe if you want to see part three where we'll have actual thermal results with testing and data and stuff like that it may be an extra few days but it'll be out in the next few days for sure by Monday so thank you for watching pay traveling to the post or video if you want to helps out directly subscribe and I'll see you all next time