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Oh ok they're Gelid Ultimate for the 0.5mm and Extreme for the 1mm, I found a local store that sells them and they're cheaper than buying online.

I wanna replace the thermal pads of my Gigabyte GTX 1080 Windforce and according to this https://www.ekwb.com/shop/EK-IM/EK-IM-3831109831373.pdf it needs to be 16mm wide. Would the 12mm get to 16mm when I press down the heatsink? Or can I just use the old pads to fill in the gaps?

My GPU is a 1080 and one of the fans died so I need to remove the heatsink to replace the fan and by doing that the pads will probably rip apart since I have never opened my GPU.

I've seen the LTT video from over a year ago where Alex uses K5 Pro Viscous Thermal Paste and it's just $12 for a 20g container, but some people say that it leaks silicone oil after some time and others say that it doesn't leak anything and works perfect. Could the oil affect other components or it's just hard to clean afterwards? I noticed a bit of oil that was coming off from one of the backplate screws on my GPU after around 3 years of use and I've read that this is normal and it's from the thermal pads, I don't know if the oil from the putty is the same thing. There's also the T-Global TG-PP10 which everyone says it's the best but the brand doesn't make this anymore but someone is selling it on ebay at least, there's also the new one TG-A7000-55CC but it cost $90.

Yeah I'm referring to the fans. The GPU uses a PWM splitter and the 3 fans connects to it, but probably the faulty one is the one that has the speed feedback like you said.

This is my pc, and the fan to the right of the 1080 is almost dead, I was playing Planetside 2 with the fan speed at 100% in MSI Afterburner and after a while I started hearing some rattling inside my pc, I checked the GPU and noticed that the fan was wobbling and spinning a bit slower than the other two, so I exit the game and restarted my pc and in the process of restarting I noticed that the fan speed wouldn't kill itself which normally happens when Windows closes MSI Afterburner, instead it would just keep going between 70 and 100% until windows boots up again and then it would try to go to 100%, so the next thing that I did was to turn off my pc and turn it back on again after a few seconds and noticed that the fan would ramp back up to 100% after a few seconds when Windows already booted up, probably because MSI Afterburner opens up a few seconds later. What's weird is that whenever I close MSI Afterburner it would just go back to normal speeds and stay around 850rpm with the GPU temp at 50c and the hotspot at 60c but when I open MSI Afterburner it'll stay at 63%, it's probably because of the fan curve but this never happened before, whenever I stop playing I would put the fan speed in auto and it would put it at "quiet" levels but now it wants to stay in 60% or 70% depending on the hotspot. I always try to keep everything cool in my pc at least below 80c, at idle the temps are around 50 and 55c and normally reaches 60c when the room temp is above 30c and that's most of the days now since I'm in the summer and I always use an undervolt profile when I turn on my pc, I don't know if the sensors went bad or its just the two fans that tries to have more airflow now to keep up with the temps since one fan is not working properly. Also I noticed a few weeks ago that whenever I put the fans at 100% it would take like 5 seconds to catch the fan speed.

Budget (including currency): $300, maybe $400 Country: Paraguay, but if i can't find anything locally i can import it from Amazon or eBay. Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Encore and Cool Edit Pro for editing and mixing music and Sony Vegas Pro 13 for video editing, maybe Davinci Resolve if he's willing to learn the basics of the program. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): He lives in Brazil and was using a 10 year old pc until it died, it was an i7 860, 6gb of ram (one of 4gb and the other of 2gb) and a HD 5850, we tried to troubleshoot via video call but it was almost impossible lol, i sent him another stick of 4gb of ram which is the same as the 4gb that he has, i told him to swap the 2gb for the new one but nothing happened so he sent it to a technician and the guy told him that the only thing that seems to be working are the ram sticks. So he asked me if i can look up for new or used parts here since it's a bit cheaper here but right now everything is way overpriced, so i started looking on ebay for a 2500k and a Sandy Bridge motherboard since he can still use the ram sticks. But i don't know how reliable that would be, so i started looking for the newest parts and this is what i came up with https://pcpartpicker.com/list/sLYGLs I don't know if i can go cheaper with a Haswell CPU and maybe add a GTX 750 Ti or 780 from ebay. For the case i can find some cheap dell optiplex cases or similar for around $15 on fb marketplace.

Yeah i plan to use a debloater. It isn't a socketed cpu :(, i didn't remove the heatsink but i can see that the cpu has a red glue.

Oh nice, i'll keep that in mind next time, thanks.

Now i used the Media Creation Tool instead of rufus and it works fine.

It's a Dell Latitude E6220, it has a i5-2540M and 6gb ram and it has an SSD, I installed the x86 version and it was working fine but i didn't know it was x86 until i checked the windows update, I let it run the updates and rebooted, then selected to boot from the USB and made sure to use the correct flash drive with the x64 iso and this happens.

I formatted an old laptop that had windows 7 and installed windows 10 x86 instead of x64, now i got the correct version in a flash driver but when i boot from the USB it shows like this, i press any button and it restarts. I've downloaded the iso from rufus, could have it loaded wrong?

Turns out that the GPU still works fine, so yeah the guy wanted to steal it lol, and the problem was the ram and maybe too much dust and something got overheated.

I've found a 1030 for about $80, is it better than a 750 Ti? The only 750 Ti that i could find is at $115, he mainly works with music with an old software called Encore and Cool Edit Pro and he also does some very light video editing.

It's for my uncle, he lives in Brazil and he told me that his computer didn't turn on so he video called me to show me what was happening, he pressed the power button and the fans started spinning for a second and then turned off again and made a beep sound, i told him that it could be the ram and he told me that he'll call a guy to check on it, the guy told him that it's the GPU that's dead and sent him two pictures from the back side which it was impossible to know if it was dead or not, and he told him that he was gonna change it for one that he was using which is a Radeon X1950 from 2006 lol so i thought that this guy might want to nick my uncle's GPU. I looked up the prices on the local marketplace and everything is way overpriced, a normal 1050 is at $215, and he told me that that is was too much for him.