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As expected, the Thermal grease was all dried out, used Aceton and coffee filters to remove residue and applied the MX-4 in pea size. Als checked the VRAM Pads and those where also hard as a biscuit, so replaced them as well. Rest of the PCB looked OK, caps where good, and no real dust to be found. So re-pasted, now temps are awesome while running MSI Kombuster for 5min: 75*C GPU 55*C VRAM 60*C GPU Ambient Again, thanks for the advice, it gave me the courage to just start the re-pasting process.

As I thought, got in contact with MSI and there is no Warranty for this so I got the standard 'clean the card' answer. To bad and kind of disappointing, but the card isn't going berserk in idle mode so that is how they concluded I had no right for warranty. Going to re-paste as soon as the supplies arrive. Also, bit of a backstory, I had ASUS cards my whole life with supreme service quality, but during the 970 debacle they let me down, so I went for MSI ( second most popular brand at the time, in NLD ). I'm going for another MSI card when I upgrade to the 1080ti or possible Vega card depending on results and finances.

Thanks for the Reply, ( Jurrunio tooo! ) I did some cleaning yesterday, removed the shroud and fans, there was indeed some dust in the heat sink but not that much, so after removing that I tried my games again to no avail, hence the question here, Also as you suggested, I started the process of contacting MSI, waiting on a response will be the hard part. And finally, the cooling supplies are in transit anyhow, so if MSI can't/won't come trough, I'll need to find a video tut on re-pasting or more specifically correctly opening a GTX980

Hi guys, I'd like some info on this, for awhile now my GPU started going berserk on temperature, and my gaming is starting to suffer from it. Where I used to be able to Play The Witcher 3 on Ultra-ish ( minus Hairworks ) and GTA on Max ( without adv settings ) all the while getting decent Temps and FPS around the 50-60 range. But as of late the 980 just spikes to 90*C and stays there with thermal throttling kicking in and still staying around 90.. The card is 2.5 years old and my question is, should I try contacting MSI ( or is it to late? ) or.. Should I repaste and apply new thermal pads? Currently shipping to my house: Arctic MX-4 Thermal Compound - 4 g Arctic Thermal Pad 145 x 145mm - 0.5mm My build's Airflow; Intake: Front: 2x 140 Corsair SP's on a H110 for the CPU Bottom: 1x 120 Corsair AF Side: 1x 120 Corsair AF Outtake: Top: 2x 140 Fractal Design 1000RPM Back: 1x 140 Fractal Design 1000RPM Any tips are welcome! - Serph EDIT: As expected, the Thermal grease was all dried out, used Aceton and coffee filters to remove residue and applied the MX-4 in pea size. Als checked the VRAM Pads and those where also hard as a biscuit, so replaced them as well. Rest of the PCB looked OK, caps where good, and no real dust to be found. So re-pasted, now temps are awesome while running MSI Kombuster for 5min: 75*C GPU 55*C VRAM 60*C GPU Ambient

I've never played around with a projector and every time my friend come over to watch movies.. we complain about the viewing angle of my TV. Would love to see their faces when I get to use this lovely little beast! Also, awesome if I could use it on the upcoming local LAN-Party Thanks for the giveaway and good luck to everyone!

What's not to like about the Zotac.. I want to push it to it's limits!

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