How to Change GPU Thermal Paste. A MUST for Older Cards!
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- An easy way to breathe life into an older video card is to change out the old thermal paste. It will instantly lower your temperatures, diminish fan noise, alleviate thermal throttling and even give you overclocking headroom. Take care of your graphics card and it will take care of you! I used Noctua NT-H2 on GPU. Affiliate link below!
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9:00 Best practices
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@@pxrc.6216 Honestly I would be hesitant to recommend anything. Everyone's needs and tastes are different.
That being said, this ikea desk (idasen) I have been using is great! I bought the smaller desk top. There is a larger one. It has a nice mesh "basket" for cable management.
Its works for laptop?? Evoo lp5
I've repaste my GPU using MX-4, it is now about 22°C more cooler... (from 96°C down to 70ish°C fully stressed).
the old paste just seems too dry, like, leaving too much micro space for air.
What matter is, what is your previous paste?
how long it has been there?
What the best paste for GPU (i.e most durable performance, not the inital performance)
Is Arctic Silver can hold it's permance more longer, as it sounds like more metallic material?
is it normal for gpu thermal paste to spread into the capacitor or whatever it's called, the small things around the chip?
Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme is the best commercially available thermal paste for GPUs due to its very high viscosity and thermal transfer metic. Put it on my 7900xtx that had relatively fresh factory paste and my temps dropped 19 degrees! And the delta from hotspot reduced from 24 to 14. A massive win! The 7900XTX hotspot is an issue and this fixed it.
These is insane man! I could say -5c improvement... But -29c is wow
A GPU cooling tip I've found to be useful aside from ALWAYS replacing the stock thermal paste (because it's the cheapest crap out there) is to replace the stock thermal pads with higher quality ones. Or add pads to things like a cards VRM's and RAM chips so they can dump their heat into the heatsink.
I saw with a GT 1030 that I have in a HTPC, that the heatsink covered the RAM chips, yet didn't have anything bridging the gap to cool them. I didn't take software temperature measurements, but under load those things were solar flare hot. After taking a couple minutes to apply some thermal pads, so they could dissipate their heat into the heatsink, it consequently dropped their load temperatures down by probably 50+%. Was genuinely amazed how much such a simple thing helped.
I think people forget just how hot those RAM chips get and how the hotter they get, especially if overclocked, the more they thermally throttle, which effects GPU performance. Plus most decent thermal pads, especially the ones that come in big sheets where you can cut many pads out of, are dirt cheap. So it's worth taking a minute to see if you can bridge some gaps with thermal pads over VRM's or RAM chips or simply replacing the stock ones with better quality ones. The card will run cooler and live longer because of it.
Ironically few, if ANYONE, seems to be mentioning this. So hopefully it helps someone out there.
RAM chips can operate up to 95-105 degrees without any problems. They will last the lifetime of the card. People are worried about temperatures like 85 degrees, but that's not really a problem. You are far more likely to damage a video card by overvolting, than having an inadequate heatsink
This was on Reddit!
you may lose your warranty, so maybe don't do this after buy
Excellent advice.
Most factory paste is mediocre. It is not a bad idea to have a stock of good paste and pads.
With my 3.5 yr old EVGA GTX 1060 was idling around 65 C and when playing non GPU intensive games like CS-Go I'd be throttling a lot and I'd be getting a lot of stuttering and frame dips which made me lose a lot of duels...
When I dismantled the card the stock thermal paste was pretty much dead ! Very little of it was left between the die and the heat sink !
Having applied new thermal paste, I'm now idling around 35-40 C and cruising around 70-75 when gaming ! ... That's almost a 30 degree difference in Idling ! It is insane !!!
I'm never gonna thank you enough !
Thanks for the content of your video! Pretty accurate and very descriptive (with differences as sound, graphics temperature line, etc.) and the suggestion you do is very nice! Thanks a lot!^^
you deserve more subs dude. High quality videos and so detailed. Thanks bro 👍👍👍👍
Probably the best video I've found on the topic, gave me the confidence to re-paste my older GTX 1080
I love your videos man! Straight to the point and pretty well vulgarized!
I always think I'm rambling and long winded. Thank you!
you deserve more subs mate great vids keep it up
Wow... That was a really huge difference!
Thanks for the video!
Great video. Did this to my GTX 980 today. I also got great results down 20 degrees !! +60% on benchmarks too.
Recently did the same to my old used RX 560 , from 68° to 56°C❄️❄️ , its still kicking even after 3 years of heavy gaming with Apex Legends and trying out Triple A titles like "Shadow Of The Tomb Raider" ❤️❤️
Always a good thing to do after you have Tha card for some time
Don’t worry about the sticker ... they are not allowed to void the warranty for removing the heatsink (or simply clean the sticker completely off)
Most company’s just use this to see if you removed the heatsink if the card would come in for an rma
Also let the company know if you ever replaced the thermal past or use a gpu block ... most company’s should not make a big deal out of it (specially if there are gpu blocks that are specifically made for that card)
Thanks for this. Just ordered some of this paste and will be doing this on my Zotac 1080ti mini soon as it arrives, my temps are hitting 84 and thermal throttling causing stutters in games and had a 99 degree hot spot. Hopefully this will give me another good few years :)
How'd it go?
@@TitanTubs I have more grey hairs from the stress of pulling apart the card, but also about 10ish degree drop in temps under load :)
I had a similar outcome as yours as well, my reference GTX 1080 was running loud and hot though blower style coolers are known to have high temps but the thermals I had were unusually high averaging at 87-89C and max temps reaching 91C when gaming, by then the card would severely downclock to just a mere 1600+mhz and fan speeds screaming at 90-100%. So I disassembled it, cleaned out the dust that was built up inside and to my surprise, the thermal paste had dried out, it was just depressing to look at, similar to yours but mine was super thin since the gpu die was quite visible, I then repasted it with some trusty Arctic Mx-4 and I was really shocked with the results, average temps were now at 66-67C, only maxing out at 73C in gaming, clocks went up to almost 1850+mhz and fan speeds were only running at 60-70%. It's just as you said in your description, take care of your graphics card and it will take care of you.
Is 82c at max usage after an hour normal for a founders 1070
Thermal paste is suppossed to be somewhat dry. Most likely what improved was removing dust from the card.
great job! done the same for my gtx1070, if is an old card is a must indeed!
Awesome, i have the same card, its getting up to 90.. going to get some thermal now!
This really helped me since I use the 2012 Nvidia GeForce GT640 DDR3 and my old max was 100°C, my new max was around 70°C.
ah my old card, absolutely hated it xD.
I was gonna say that I were considering changing the thermal paste of my 7 years old Gtx 770, but after seeing your results, I will definitely go buy some thermal paste tomorrow.
So I just did the thermal paste replacement and it did not get me the results you were archieving.
The paste was still kinda fresh, wet and did not crack into bits, as in your video (5:01).
But I do see some improvements because with the same stress test, the card is now performing 4°C cooler with 9% less Fanspeed. I do think it was worth it and I learned quite a bit, because I have have an pre-build computer and never did anything like this before.
Same here when checking upon our office desktops, I used Gelid GC-Extreme on the GPU, Chipset and CPU to repaste them. It's not loud anymore.
Probably the best part about it. The silence.
I have an rtx 2060s for about 3 years now, for the past years temperatures where overall ok (max 80°C / idle 50°C 0%fanspeed) but it recently started going as high as 88-89°C 100%fanspeed (my pc even shut off by itself once due to thermal throttling) so obviously something was going on. I knew that my airflow is good so I replaced the thermal paste and the results were pretty much the same as yours. Idle 45°C 0%fanspeed and 74°C 65%fanspeed after a 1hour stress test. If you're having tempratures above 85°C first check your airflow and if that's not the case you should definitely check your thermal paste, it's probably what's causing the problem. Great video!
My 1080 I bought in early 2017 was after 5 years always close to 80°C at 95% Fan speed. Changed thermal paste a month ago and man was that thing dried up. Now its mostly between 65-69°C at 80-85% Fanspeed and I just used Mx4 so nothing fancy there and yet the temps are even better than the thermals when I had it new in 2017were temps were around 75°C at 85% fanspeed. You could probably even go sub 60°C with liquid metal, not that I would but the results are impressive.
bro u got me with that intro
Wow, thanks. This worked wonders for me. I replaced the thermal paste on my RX 470 GPU, which previously would heat up to 90 degrees celsius and then just shut down the computer even on relatively low demanding games like Fortnite. Using the Superposition Unigine benchmark program, the PC would shut down in 60 seconds. Even when underclocked, the benchmark program would make the GPU run at 80-85 degrees C. After the thermal paste replacement, my GPU never goes higher than 65 degrees C.
Thank you for posting this and giving me more hope that this was the problem with my Asus 3070. It was running at 82C on average under load and now after repasting the card it's running at 64C under load. The factory thermal paste was terrible. Idle temps went from 55C to 34C. Over 50% of the processor was bare completely shiny metal and the rest was small thin patches. In hindsight I'm shocked that it was running even as well as it was. It runs so quiet now. I didn't realize how loud it had gotten.
You make great videos!
Glad I watched this video. 👍
thank you!! Subbed
Right on, very cool.
great video, might need to give my 1070 mini some TLC after doing a few bench marks. new sub for ya!
Thanks for the sub! Let me know if you go through with it.
I still have a 1070, the fan sometimes runs high but it's not noisy enough to bother me. Still, I found this vidio useful.
Fun fact.. it's now illegal to make or import cotton swabs in Europe.
Thanks for sharing Tech I
This is something... 😆
I knew that changing the thermal paste makes a difference, but so much I didn't expect. I can see that your old one was in a really bad shape too, so that can make a big difference in this case.
I always change it for a good quality one by the way, both CPU and GPU, Desktops and Laptops as well. The manufactures rarely use the best ones and because of that I prefer to be safe, and it was ever worth it doing it, for better temperatures and lower needed fan speeds.
I've used different ones over the years and the difference between them can be some, but not huge tho.
The ones I would recommend after my experience are this ones (by order):
- Cooler Master MasterGel Maker
- Artic MX-4
- Noctua NT-H1
P.S.: Change the thermal pads for good quality ones, it a must do too! 😉
I did this on a week old Gigabyte Eagle 3080 using Kryonaut. Also upgraded all the thermal pads at the same time. There was a difference but only noticeable when eyeballing HWInfo numbers and fully stressing the card with looped benchmarks, but it didn’t get worse than before and the process was fun so..
too early for that! I"d say you only need to do this kind of maintenance with urgency after 2 years of heavy use
3080 probably not older than 2 years without heavy use this wouldn't even be needed hence the unnoticeable difference. I did this to a 1060 G1 6gigs laying around and had a 20 digress difference and is idling at 30s now without even the fans running now before it was 50s and kicking in fans here and there with normal office workloads.
What were your GPU hotspots before and after this test? Nice video. Thanks for making.
I saw a few tests with different thermal pastes and also different way on how to apply it to the gpu. The most "good" brands will have more or less the same result....may a difference from 1-3 degrees between them. Very cheap paste however can be really bad or even worse than not changing it.
One of the best thermal pastes was the Grizzly Kryonaut extreme. here you had a 3-5 degree lower tempertaure than the next best paste. But it also cost twice as much as other good paste. Other good pastes are the Noctua NT as well as the Arctic MX4 or MX6.
It is also recommended to spread the paste over the whole gpu instead of just putting a drop in the middle or using the X-variant.
I am about to change my paste soon on my 2070. It does not get very hot though, but I bought a new PC and want to use my old card for a while, till I can afford a new one. So that means clean the card and of course changing the paste before puttin it in a fresh new PC.
Screw tightening pattern is important for GPUs. You want to snug it up with an X pattern. It's not like a cpu- you need to make sure the heat sink is tightly held to the die.
So you need to screw them in A-C, B-D pattern instead of A-B-C-D pattern ?
Can you make a video describing about thermal pads and what shouldn't be done while repairing a graphic card, like a in depth explanation.
I have a Gigabyte 1660 OC 6G card which idles at 49C (fan off) and loads around 73-80 (Rendering) the card is two years old and I am going replace the thermals soon. Thank you!
how doesn't this channel get more attention
This is so true. I have ared devil 6750xt.any time I played on 1440p I would hit 100c hotspot temp or more. Even if I was just in the main menu. My edge temps would be 60c while the die would be 100c.
After a repaste it's at 80c to 90c (die temp) under full load and it takes hours to go over 90c.
Damn I JUST did this today. Wish I would’ve waited until tomorrow so I could’ve watched this video first.
How were the results?
Arctic MX-5 recently come out. Performing as Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut or Gelid GC-Extreme but 10 times cheaper
Im really surprised,idk how but it really worked on my 5 years old GTX 750 idle temperature decreased from 45-39 & max from 95 to 71 😳
What kinda thermal paste did you use?
@@RyandeSilva Cooler Master High Performance Thermal Paste grease
GTX 1060 Founders Edition blower design went from max 82c to 68c while gaming. After removing Years of dust around the fan and heat sink, replacing the old crusty crumbly thermal paste.
I've got some NT-H2 on the way for exactly this. Think I've owned my 1070Ti for 3 years now, keen to see how it turns out.
Completed the repaste. Dropped 13deg C from my max 3D mark temp.
@@H3kler nice
@@H3kler im thinking about doing that too but im scared to mess up
@@arslanemre4100 maybe you can find a computer shop to do it for you
@@magicmachine1637 yeah i did it the last days i couldnt play cuz my cpu saw 98 degrees cuz it has stock cooler + 10 years old no thermal paste now its 30-55
I have a 7yo gpu that's been holding up better than expected but the heat is real bad right now in the summer.
I am skeptical of all these results because it sounds too good to be true lol
But I am sure there will be at least some improvement.
Aww yeah, butter that toast! 6:58
What do you think of doing this on old cards that are new in the box? I recently got into this whole universe and was only able to snag an RX 580 and an RX 5700 XT, both were new in the box but presumably manufactured long ago. And, in general, assuming that one doesn’t harm their hardware, would you view this as perhaps proactive regular maintenance? Great video, thanks for the information!
Personally it would come down to thermals. If the thermals were good then I wouldn't bother. Though it is a fun project.
took apart a 1080 Ti FTW which was running 42 C IDLE. Took it apart and found loads of dust and shit in places a duster doesn't get. Dropped some MX-5 on GPU and it dropped to 28-29C idle.
Damn, I should probably try this. I have a 4+ year old GTX 1080 with a blower style cooler. It has been hitting 82c and throttling down by 200MHz since the first day I bought it, so I never thought that this could be a problem.
Absolutely do it. I hope it will be as successful as my experience.
@@TechIlliterate I repasted my GPU with Arctic MX-4 and my temps went down by about 8 degrees, pretty cool results!
Not sure if it was worth the effort though because I spent like 30 minutes mining the 4 year old thermal crust that was practically one with the die and the tiny resistors around it xD
I recently changed the thermal paste on my 4 year old GTX 1080 wiping the old paste off the GPU die and not touching the sides out of fear of damaging one of the little transistors, is that bad? The results were amazing the first week I did it, but then my card's temps started to climb again.
+++++++++ I do.Depending on the manufacturer, apply some paste to the card.The paste is applied many times to withstand the warranty period then it dries out.Some don’t know this and don’t replace it by failing their card due to overheating.
Great video, I consider these things to be like preventative maintenance on a car. I got myself an RX 480 4GB recently just for the fun of it (never owned an amd gpu and for 125$ it was a steal), with the fans turned off (silent mode) it was running at 48~50 degrees, after replacing thermal paste ( I got myself a thermal paste named Thermagic ZF-12 from aliexpress for really cheap, but very high quality and a 12w/mk advertised conductivity) I couldn't believe it when I saw a 37 degrees idle temp, stressing the gpu never got it above 75 degrees and that was with furmark.
sounds like a success to me. Glad you liked the video, thanks
gonna try this tmr, i just checked my gpu thermal paste after it black screened playing ac odyssey and found out that the thermal paste was only surrounding the chip and not on it.
good video
I did the same on my rtx 2080 Ti Strix gaming oc card, the paste was like yours and even missed in some spots. Had like 82 on gpu and 104 on hotspot. And after 54 on gpu and 67 on hotspot ^^.
I have very similar situation regarding the temps on GPU and VRAM, not so demanding games are cooking my RTX. So I'm actually planning to change my paste tomorrow and I'm a little bit scared of breaking something. Is it necessary to change the thermal pads also, do they break when taking the radiator off? Or is just a good idea to do so, hence the card will be disassembled already? What are your thoughts?
Very impressive. How long does the benefit last I wonder? I like the idea of testing and noting results for new PCs or components...
I hope it lasts for a solid year or two! I sold the card once I upgraded. I like to think it'll have a good couple years left.
My old 980 is around 85c durring DCS, probably could use this fix.
thanks for the video man, maybe because the Thermal paste was dry and dead and you see there was too much so it probably prevented the connection between the cooling system and the gpu. now i can tell its good using more thermal paste but not too much because if you don't change it regularly and let it die it'll happen again i think if there was only small amount of a dead thermal paste it would cool better coz it'll have more connection between cooling system and the gpu
Yeah I think you have a good point there.
@@TechIlliterate well, doesn't mean we need to put just a little, put enough and change it regularly :)
i have RX 480 and it's kinda old now , i got it in 2017 , i'm changing the paste today !!!!
@ no just the thermal paste
Im thinking of replacing mine as well I bought a zotac mini 1060 3gb second hand and temps are rising as high as 82c
That’s that I cleaned the heat sink almost as soon as I got it but nothing was done about the thermal paste.
Any suggestions or pastes I should stay away from?
I have used my gpu for 4 years and i noticed it was reaching temps of 95c and even 100c with 100% fan speed. I replaced the thermal paste with cheap thermal paste and did those same games at 50% fan usage at 75c.
Time to do this on my 1080 and 1070
Great video. I must have got a good card. Had my EVGA 970 for over 5 1/2 years. Idles at 35 games at 55-60. Never been past 80c. Hopefully putting this ole girl to rest soon.
Damn, that is impressive.
Must be some quality paste.
I got a 970 too, and same thing with the temps. Guess there is no need to worry for now.
I got 970 and it got 75c in no time while full load lol, maybe its time to repaste
I once didnt put paste on an old CPU and it eventually kept freezing up because it became ridiculously hot. I scraped the old dry paste off and slapped the heatsink back on. I didnt know you needed to put paste on it.
This is not always the case with all cards.
My friend who has experience of opening GPUs and applying termal paste opened my rtx 3060 which was working on 75°c and applied termal paste and temperatures went to 90°c as soon as we opened some games.
We will buy new termal pads and new termal paste and hope for the best.
i have gtx 670 msi founder edition style i have 82c degree on stock fan when i use msi after burner and adjust the fan curve it max 75c and fan speed almost 2900rpm ..i need to try this with good thermal paste
I have the Dell RTX 3080. The VRAM temp would get to 109 degrees Celcius and after the repaste, it's now 96 degrees. I personally feel like I didn't get the right contact/amount in so I will repeat this process in the future and hopefully get better results.
Nice results. I might have to try it with my 3080 ti at some point. I think thermal pads might be better though.
@@TechIlliterate my RTX 3080 is the dell variant (Alienware R12) the paste has the most impact and changing the thermal pads seems to have no effect if not worsen the temps from some TH-cam’s who tried. I have repeated the paste and got exactly the same results. 96 degrees for the VRAM temp while mining.
Hi, hope you see this, but I might just be speaking in the void. I understand that you dropped 29C, but you do think this was because of the game you were running, or purely from you repasting. I understand that you sold this card, but if you ran a game that would really push the limits of the card, would you think your temps would be in the 70/75+'s.
I ask because I quite literally just now repasted my GPU, but I haven't really stressed it properly with an intensive game, was wondering what you'd think I would get, or what you think you would have gotten. Thanks. Great Channel.
Zoom in on my empty wallet! The Rent reference got a thumbs up by itself. Great video!
Thanks for the video i Will change m'y paste on my xbox one x i had a overheat issue the xbox stoped and went off on a game D2 and m'y fan was doing a funny noise that i Will change to be on the safe side
Hardest part is disassembling the Xbox. I hope it's a success for you.
Yes looked and lurned how on TH-cam and I am a tech on the road
I am absolutely shocked at your results. I’m still running a RTX 1060. I need to do this. Great video!
Thanks! Give it a try. I'd be interested to hear your results.
My GPU is getting a bit old, but I don't have the balls to try and replace the thermal paste, mainly because I don't have the money to buy a new one if I need to.
OK so my 1660ti idle at 49 to 50 and when gaming it's around 58 to 65 max should I still replace the paste or is it okey for now
Just did this on my old Msi 1080ti Aero card and dropped from 87 to 75! Amazing!
my gpu is the closest to being 3 years old and i noticed that without msi afterburner running rocket league even on performance mode like completely performance it was hitting 83C but it was at a steady 400- fps which is bonkers but there was a lot of stutters so i want to do this and i dont really have a cash app so i had to ask my parents to buy me thermal paste and kind of explained that it will cool down the gpu but they said that im dumb and no one ever does that and its some bullshit which got me kinda upset because i dont want to ruin my gpu so if you could kinda reply with explaining them that its actually effective and worth the try
i just purchase 1080ti SC2 for $200 last night. I ran the test and it was running at 87~88 degree and it crash so i thought scammed . Remove old thermos paste and apply Arctic MX4 and maxed out at 70 degree stable on heaven benchmark. I had to check if this is really happening to other video card and I found this video. old paste was hard like rock.
Once I've bought an old Radeon from like 2013 and it runs like a jet engine, with temps around 60-70 (idle) and up to 100 C (under load), when I ask the seller he said that it is normal, but the card was never repasted (stickers still intact). I assume it has something to do with the paste, and so I did repasting it. Now it runs well and almost never reaches 70 C. So, yes repasting a GPU is worth it.
60 degrees is INSANELY GOOD!
Now my 3080ti doesn't even know what 60 deg. is. smh.
I have gtx 970, idle temp was fine around 33-35c but it ramps up really fast when full load, reaching 70-75c in minutes. Definitely trying to do this
Those temps aren't too bad! Let me know if you end up doing it.
@@TechIlliterate After asking my friend and do a little bit inspection it turns out only heat up on games like witcher 3, on other games it only sitting around 65-69c full load, so maybe its fine.
@@MoXy69409 got a gtx 960 and around the same temps as yours with a slight overclock and thats with new artic silver mx4
I have a old 1060 I've had it for like 3 years it always runs at like 80 degrees I need to do thid
Well I have a 6year old MSI R9 390, sooo I probably should repaste right?
My 1070 itx card runs full load @ 54C, not bad before was 74c
Do we really need to clean anywhere other than actual die? What happens if we leave them be?
Did this today. Stopped my fans revving like mad.
Hello, man, how are you? Thank you for make this great video. First things first, I am from Brazil, so sorry for the bad english... Would you mind answer my requests? The first one is for make a full video explaing how you cleaned this GPU. I am asking this because of two things. The first one is that I have the same video card (ASUS rx 480 8 gb OC). The another one is because I am very afraid of breaking/ lousing my hardware... Again, thank so much for the attetion and take care!!
Another question is that I am having a problem with this GPU. Basically, when I am monitoring her with MSI afterburner says that she is osciling on 45-60% use, but ,when I saw the AMD radeon sotfware, It says that she is osciling for 0% tô 100%. The radeon grafict is like a mountain or triangle. I am trying to solve this problem, but I can't... Also, acording AMD software, this osciling apears all the time. Like when I am not playing anything only using the Opera/Chrome... Take care, Man, and cya!!!
Different software often use a different metric to read frequencies resulting in different readings. Using 100% isopropyl alcohol and a cotton swab is the best way to clean the GPU. It is easy enough. Just give it a shot.
@@TechIlliterate Thx!!!!
yeah the problem is they spread paste way beyond the processor and it's not easy that easy to clear those parts
mx4 or thermal grizzly for gpu
I hadn't changed my gpu thermal past since 2012 on my 5570 power color
yo yo, which software did he/you used for getting the clock speeds on that graph? I know, that I could use Afterburner, but it doesn't look so clearly. His/Your software looks a bit like HWMonitor.
Thanks for your answers!
I use HWinfo
Thanks for the video. My problem is when im playing games my monitor turn black...audio still there but the display turn black..should i do this method? Btw my gpu was old gpu..gtx980
What you monitored the thermals?
It almost shows that you don't have good air flow in your case. The front of your case should have 3 120mm fans with 3 fans out. Would be super quite since so much air flow would keep everything super chill. Your idle temps should give around 30-35 c.
Pretty sure I have run into bad thermal paste issue on my card. Couldn't really run games as I remembered I should be able to run them. It's a close-to 4 year old ASUS DUAL 2080 TI 11GB OC. I can run games at what I thought were OK temperatures with almost no fan noise, but the newer games it just wasn't possible. Figured I must be misremembering the performance I should get out of it while essentially silent. Maybe bad fan curves or something with some update? To get it back to 0db or essentially silent, I tried adjusting curves and the clocks and power target. Noticed I was somehow getting better FPS by lowering power target and clocks. There was no change in reported GPU temperatures at full load, but the fans slowed down... Had to throttle down to 50% power target to get Cyberpunk 2077 with mid-to high-range settings to run silent. Got a proper GPU-Z version rather than the ASUS GPU Tweak III one to see the Hot Spot temperature... Myeah... it was at 109C at full load... Ordered new thermal paste just a bit ago, should arrive early this week.
Regarding the baseline benchmarks, that's an excellent suggestion! As I'm thinking back on it, it might be that the card was this bad always, even since I got it, or maybe it got worse. Frankly just don't know. I think I probably just figured it was normal "these new cards" were much more noisy since they were so much more powerful than what I had, especially with a TI version.
Just got mine re-pasted. Completely stable maxed out at 100% load (100% power use, throttled by power), 84C max, hotspot no more than 96-98C. And fan essentially completely silent at 66%. Now the only problem is Cyberpunk 2077 maxes out my CPU so I can't get more FPS anyway...
My Graphics card has thermal pads that I can see from the side view on certain areas of the card, I scared that if I remove the heat sink panel it will ruin those pads and I don't have spare?
Will the thermal pads be fine or do I need to get or just leave it alone?
Most thermal pads are totally fine. Only ones I've seen cause issue were the type which came stock on the 3000 series Founders Edition cards from NVIDIA.
I bought my rtx 2060 in 2018 and it used to run at 65 degrees overclocked at 2.05ghz in summer now it runs at 86 degrees at 1920 mhz in october, i think i have to change the paste. :/
Water cool it. i don't see temps above 50C under load.
I'm about to do this on my 1080ti strix getting 86c to stressed.
how did it go ? got the same card myself ... 86 is really hot tho, im getting 77c with 70% on the fans, im going to change the paste for hopefully a little better performance and for the cards condition the next year or two
and how did it look when you opened the card ? was it really dry ? and was it alott on there ? sorry for all he questions lol
@@LegendXbox went well, went to 68/70c stressed (modern warfare/cold war maxed settings) the paste was well dried up. Idle it hangs around 34/37 ish range. Using afterburner's default fan curve(adjusted it a little) fan starting to kick in @50c so silent/off in normal usage. I can advise to do it.
@@INFIN1TY- Nice! thanks for answer :D
@@LegendXbox no problem. 👍🏼
Hey guys, hope you doing well. Which one of these thermal pastes would perform better in my use case? CPU: 5900X , Cooler: 240mm Deepcool LE500 AIO
Arctic MX-4
Arctic MX-5
Coolermaster Mastergel Pro v2
Coolermaster Mastergel Maker
actually, I have a Mastergel Regular already. Do I need to upgrade to one of these?
The Arctic MX4 is a very good paste from what I saw. And I would say for a 5900x this is enough. If you want it a step further your can try the Grizzly Kryonaut extreme, which seems to be on of the best but also costs twice as much as the MX4. I can not say if the Coolermaster paste is as good.
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I have 2 gtx 980 ti frozen cards running HOT. I'm about to change the paste for the first time in 6 years. How much you think I'll drop from 80celcius?
Depends on what you're running. If a light game like mine did with rocket league I expect it to be around a 10-15 degree drop.
Hi mate, thanks for the video. Actually I am planning to do the same with my old GPU. Question: Is it worth the extra work and risk to use liquid metal like Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut?
I personally am not interested in using liquid metal. Unless you are planning on doing some serious overclocking it is not worth it IMO.
@@TechIlliterate Wow mate, didn't expect answer so fast. Really appreciate!
how old need to be the gpu to replace the paste?
You may find that the paste is dry not long after purchase depending on how long it's been on the shelf. Obviously that isn't a problem right now but I would suggest 1-2 years after first buying it.