Disassembling and cleaning the board
You can find out more about the correct order of disassembly in the article linked below. I’m assuming you’ve also read my videos and articles on the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090, so you already know the procedure. For all others: The two ribbon cables for the fans can be released by tilting the black levers at the end of the lock upwards. Please remove or lift off the thermal paste dry first and only later use some isopropanol sparingly for fine cleaning.
We can neglect the back, it does not need to be cleaned either.
Here again the procedure with description:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition correctly disassembled – Guide for water cooling rebuilders
Mounting
This step is also as simple as it is quick, since most of the equipment has already been delivered complete from the factory. so you really only have to screw the board together with the bracket. And please do not forget to lead the cable out of the cover beforehand. The already applied thermal paste allows exactly one attempt, no more. Otherwise, you have to wipe them and use your own paste, which is not necessarily better.
The backplate carries three small cooling pads, which are actually completely useless, as we will see in the IR control picture. Especially since you only cool one PWM controller (pad turned) and not the other. For this, among other things, a step-down converter is cooled, which does not require cooling. This could have been left out completely.
Bolt and be happy. That’s all you really need to do. However, the unused openings should be tightly sealed with the two supplied blanking plugs. Hand-tight and with the yellow Platik tool. Just don’t use sturdy tools, because then it will crunch faster than you’d like.
It took me less than 5 minutes for the complete assembly, even a layman could easily do it in less than 15 minutes. Let’s call it customer-friendly for once.
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