Hey, so I recently changed the thermal paste of my GPU, and its temperatures over load instantly ramp up into 80-90 until it throttles. I keep opening up, using less thermal grease, more, cleaning the chip better, etc. to no change at all.
Changing the fan profile from default to something else doesn't do it, so I don't think is a fan configuration thing. No overclock either.
Thanks.
Almost sounds like the fan isn't working but you'd probably notice that.
Also with direct die cooling like on a GPU you can't really put too much on, you need more rather than less. Any excess just gets pushed out.
All the screws, especially the ones for the ones around the corner of the die, all torqued up properly?
The screws are torqued properly, cross scheme, tightened bit by bit to not wear them. As for the thermal grease, it's some cheap 3.17 w/mK grease, but it was the same that I used in the previous replacement, which worked marginally better. The sensor seems to be fine honestly, idle temps are pretty much like the ones pre-replacement, and the fans are spinning correctly, with the appropiate speed curve.
I'm beginning to think that maybe it hasn't got to do with the thermal paste replacement, rather an incoming PSU failure?
A PSU wouldn't really cause this. But goddamn, 3.17W/mK?? Did you steal that from Intel?
Unless you're trying to put it on something extremely small, NEVER EVER manually spread thermal paste. It'll spread just fine when the block gets put back on.
Download MSI Afterburner and make sure your fans are spinning up at the right times. I have an issue with my GTX 680 where if I don't have Afterburner running the fans don't kick on.
I basically just set it to torque up the fans whenever it crosses 60C.
For directdie cooling I'd absolutely manually spread it.
You should always manually spread liquid metal, but I don't think manually spreading paste will help you any.
For GPU thermal paste application, it's considered best to draw a big 'X' from corner to corner them reassemble. Dunno what the consistency of the stuff you're using is though, kryonaut spreads itself out nicely.
Well, that's one thing out of the way, and one more expense to add. I swear to god mantaining PCs is a money black hole. Thank you all for your help!
btw who wants the 20 coins???
You honestly shouldn't have to reapply thermal paste that often? Good quality paste should be good for years. Also good paste isn't that expensive, a tube of thermal grizzly is like $10 at worst. There's more expensive things than $10 every couple years.
Each year and a half or so. Generally when I do a complete cleanup of the computer.
Also, newsflash, the GPU started artifacting massively at CS:GO at 80º. This might be more than a simple cooling mistake.
It's """fine""" after a reboot, but I think it can happen again.
Newsflash, you don't have to be a rude ass, I don't know everything about your computer and specific quirks or problems with your hardware, I don't even know you kid. Shit I've never even seen a post of yours until now.
Didn't intend to be rude, i'm really sorry. I think I worded my post wrong and it seemed offensive towards you.
I generally do it, as i said, when i do a full cleanup, so i dont tend to look into timeframes and such, thats good advice, thank you.
https://youtu.be/qc7bCC1TmVg?t=78
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It makes no difference, all that garbage is housewives tales. Less is always worse than more.
I forgive you, such is the nature of text communication, it can be easy to say something wrong when there is no vocal que. For future reference the term newsflash is most often used in a
sarcastic and rude fashion, to denote something someone should have already known as if it were "news". I didn't notice you were from posting from Spain, so I'm sure the quirky social
nuances of the English language aren't 100% a solid concept from birth for you like they are a native English speaker. my apologies for snapping as I did.
I feel like you are wasted that thermal paste to be honest. Just get a second hand gpu there's plenty out there.
That and GPU's need very little of it at all
Yeah, I'm starting to think that it was all pointless. After I changed the thermal paste and saw the temperatures ramping up, I was just so frustrated I wanted it to work properly again.
So, this and the artifacting mean that this GPU is going soon isn't it? The thing is, buying a new GPU for this system isn't the best plan, as it's pretty budget stuff (AMD x4 860k, 128gb SSD, and this GTX 550 Ti) and it would be probably bottlenecked and not worth the money. What are your thoughts on this?
Yeah that GPU is going for sure I'd say, unlikely to be just a driver issue. Have you tried underclocking it and seeing if you can get it to stop artifacting under load?
I'd say tbh you can buy a new card for the system, you'll just want to transplant the card to a newer system when you get one. It would be bottlenecked, but that doesn't mean it will always be.
Yeah, I could try that, just to keep the system running on a little longer, but I couldn't play the games that are already borderline on this system like cs:go and skyrim. I'll have to find this balance.
Again, thank you all for the information.
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