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Hello, I have a Asus Strix GTX 1060 OC, it used to run normal but now it runs hot, like hot. Idle temp is 39-45 and under minimal load, like 30% it goes to almost 60 and under 98% it’s 78-83. Should it be like that? if I need to repaste it, what should I use and do I need any thermal pads? Which size it’s a three fan version, so if anyone could help me with a video or something, it would really help thank you

Hi! I got a second hand 3080 Gundam ROG, not used in mining, some corrosion in the fins. Seller repasted it March 2023, thermal pads wasn't changed. I was able to use it for 2+ weeks without any problems, temps around 81⁰C max on max cyberpunk game settings stable 55+fps, then I decided to check HWINFO, saw that the hot spot is around 105-108⁰C. Decided to take it to a tech to repaste gpu and change thermal pads. (For my peace of mind since it's a second hand unit). Tech used cryonaut (original, I checked) for gpu die, Deep cool for the pads with correct thickness. Tested it, furmark for about 5 mins, no problem. Max temp at 69⁰C. Upon going home played with cyberpunk again for about 4 hours max temp 74⁰C, hotspot around 85⁰C, no prob. Tweaked with undervolting. 0.7V on idle, 0.9+V while playing, no problem. Clicked on the windows logo on afterburner then restarted my pc. Then no post, error light stayed white on VGA. Then pc restarts. Trouble shoot done: reseat all RAM, remove cmos battery, shorted for cmos reset also, cold boot (press power button 30 secs while psu off and unplugged), boot up with 1, 2, 4 RAMs, switched RAM places Upon some reading online, it might have been the afterburner, so I borrowed a working 1660 super, pc boots, uninstalled the afterburner. But upon putting my 3080, same problem. No post, light on VGA. Tested gpu on another unit, same prob (no display), technician said it's already code AA meaning it should have display already but none. Will bring in to the tech again tom to open the gpu he repasted. (He's on a day off today, others doesn't want to open it) What might be the prob? Here's a link to the video https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qbKDjpBgXEGI_Sc-8IUPFUOKyTuZCq2I/view?usp=drivesdk Specs: MSI B660 TOMAHAWK WIFI 32GB (8X4) Corsair Vengeance RGB RT i5-12400F 3080 Rog Gundam (10gb) 750W MSI MPG A750GF

My 2080TI has been running hot now for about half a year. The average temps are fine since they never get above 80°C, but the fans will still kicks on to 100% occasionally because the hot spot will be over 100°C. Usually the hotspot will reach 105°C when the gpu is about 75°C. I've repasted it before with Noctua H1 thermal paste and used a spatula to ensure that the full die was covered. The temps improved to a 20°C offset temporarily, but would should back up within a couple of months. I also undervolted it to run no higher than .838V when under load and have verified through HWInfo that it is adhering to that curve. As for the case and environment that it's in, It's in a NCase M1 with two Noctua NF A-12x15 fans under it for intake. The room is air-conditioned to be 74°F as that's a comfortable temp for me and my partner. I'm just wondering if it's even worth it to repaste again or if this is about what I should expect from my GPU. Or if this type of temperature difference is normal and I'm freaking out over nothing. Edit: I repasted the GPU with Arctic MX-6 and am seeing a 15°C difference. As a fresh paste, it's still better than the Noctua H1. Will keep an eye on it but it seems to be working well.

Im going to repaste my cpu today. The paste currently applied was the included paste that came with my DRP4 but i figured i could do better by swapping out the ILM with a contact frame and applying some kryonaut. The paste has been on there since april when i built the thing so I dont think it should be too hard to get off with the 70% IPA i have. Im planning on using cotton balls and coffee filters to remove the existing paste. Is there anything I should know before going to repaste my cpu and cooler? This is my first time doing such a thing.

I've been occasionally repasting both my personal Laptops and some devices at work. But I've always run into issues: The temps are great for the first couple days, but just a few weeks / months after repasting, the CPU is back to old temps. One year later, I even had a few devices crashing because of the CPU overheating under load. After some googling, it turns out that the regular thermal paste (Arctix MX4 / MX5) that I've been using, isn't ideal for direct die application. I suppose it doesn't as well, because of pump out. Reddit recommends to go with high viscosity thermal compound, such as Gelid GC Extreme or Honeywell PTM7950. What is generally considered the best price/performance thermal compound for laptops? And is there a difference in what I should use between repasting office and gaming laptops?

So i've been wondering for about a week now on if i should open my gpu because when i opened it for a good cleaning i saw that the gpu as a whole had a lot of dust on the fans and inside it, i blew it with a can of air and a lot of dust did come out and i was wondering if i should open it to repaste and deep clean it. The gpu is an asus tuf rtx2060 that has been in use for about a year, because of the frankly shit cooler on it it has spent a lot of its time on 70-82C. The main thing im worried about is voiding the warranty in case the gpu decides to prank me and die on me while its under warranty but the manufacturer then deciding it doesn't want to help me because they can see that i broke the paper seal on one of the coolers screws, should i not open the gpu just for the fact that then asus could basically say "fuck you we wont help" in case it decides to die on me or should i just open it worry about it breaking if it happens?

So some info about the whole ordeal first, Recently I repasted my Asus Zephyrus M GU502GU about 3 weeks ago with Cooler Master master gel maker and undervolted it. I ran cinbench r20 to verify if the repasting improved the temps and I got max temps of around 80 degrees celsius on the CPU which was an improvement of about 4-5 degrees. Idle temps were at around 40 degrees and not affected at all. I also played games and saw a 9-10 degrees temp reduction on the GPU side. So overall I was happy with my first ever thermal paste job but since the last 2-3 days I have been seeing negative impacts on the CPU temps. The idle temps are unaffected and the GPU temps remain the same while gaming but while running Cinebench r20 now the CPU reaches a max of 92 degrees and starts thermal throttling. I have read that high idle temps and high core differentials are some signs of a bad thermal paste job but I have none of those issues so what might be the problem here?

So the i9-10980hk my laptop has is currently throttled and i think with a repaste i can gain a little more performance. Many people have told me that LM isn't worth the risk, is this right? Also I have looked at pads but they don't seem to be recommended a lot. If a normal paste is a better idea, which shoukd I use? I live in Mexico so there are not many pastes in the market, I have narrowed it down to 4 options. Which would get me better results? My 2 biggest concerns are to get the best performance but also get a reasonable lifetime for the repaste. My 4 options are. (There is not Thermalright TFX neither Kingpin Kpx) -Kryonaut Extreme (2g / $25) -MasterGel Maker (1.5ml/ $30) -Gelid GC Extreme (1g/ $5) -Artic MX-4 ( 4g / $15) I really want to make the right choice since I don't want to open the laptop very often. Any help is welcome. Thanks!

Hello, I'm here because I have two questions/ potential issues : I've discovered the new hotspot feature of GPU-Z. While gaming, with only the factory OC available from Asus ("Gaming mode"), I reach easily more than 100°C. It's more than a 20-25°C delta, where I've seen most people report more like 10-12°C. I'm worried. Is there potentially an issue with the cooler mounting ? For the longest time my GPU was dead silent. For a while now, I've been hearing the GPU's fan ramp up and down and it's starting to become very very annoying. Any link with the issue above ? I've seen that at the second I reach 80°C, no matter where the fans are, I think that they jump to 100%. Sometimes it's only one of them, sometimes both (it's three fans actually reported as 2 in GPU-Z).

Hey Guys, Just A Quick Question Here Since I Don't Know If I'm Doing The Right Thing Or Wasting My Time. When You Personally Buy A New Laptop, Do You Repaste The CPU Before You Even Use It? My Logic Being That Manufacturers Are Know For Doing "Amazing" Jobs On Applying Thermal Paste And It Never Seems To Be Decent Quality. I Just Bought A G14 With The Ryzen 9 And Was Curious If It Was A Waste Of My Time And Supplies To Repaste A New CPU And GPU.. Cooling Massively Erks Me... I Like Having My Stuff Run Cool.

Hey Guys, So I Got A Question On Laptop Cooling. A Picture Is Included But I Want To Open My Laptop And Repaste The Whole Thing. So My Question Is: The Laptop Has Some Kind Of Paste On The VRMs And The GPU Memory Chips.. The Videos Say To Use K5 Pro But I Have Never Heard Of It And Dont Trust Brands I Have Never Heard Of. Could I Use Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut On The VRMs Instead? Is There Any Difference Between The Type Of Thermal Paste Used? Thanks For The Help Guys! Asus GA502 Zephyrus G

Hello! My laptop is running way too hot, idling CPU and GPU at about 70 degrees celcius. Needless to say, I think its time I repasted them, but I'm not too sure about which thermal paste to go for (this is my first gaming laptop), I usually just use desktop PC's and don't know if there's any considerations to take. I'm looking to get my idle temps as low down as possible because the fans are driving me crazy. And yes I've cleaned out the fans for dust and updated bios / drivers etc. Cheers! - Moz

Hello. I want to replace my Msi Geforce GTX970 4GD5T OC's thermal paste. Currently the temps goes up to 85C in gaming on 100% power limit,100% Fan speed and 91C temp limit on the MSI Afterburner. And It crosses 90C on Furmark stress test. I live in Bangladesh and it's really a hot country. Currently my room temperature maybe 35-37C. Here I have Corsair TM30,XTM50,Coolermaster MasterGel regular,Deepcool Z4,Z5,Z10,G15 Thermal pastes in my budget options.I don't intend to spend more on thermal paste(Like Noctua NT-H2) rather I want to on Casing fans.So,Which thermal paste would be a wise option?

Hello All, I'm new here, and probably going to feel like an idiot and probably roasted in this thread but here's the story. Yesterday, I decided to repaste my gpu (MSI ARMOR AMD RX580 OC 8GB) despite being a little scared to do so, I went ahead and took the card apart. Now I think this is where I went wrong, upon inspecting the thermal paste application from factory (terrible application in my opinion) I put some Artic paste remover on the die, unfortunately it spilled out to the edges so I was quick to get some paper towel and start cleaning up (being sure not to catch solder points) I digress, so upon cleaning everything up and spreading the new thermal paste with my finger. I go to test the card, and each time I attempted to test for thermals and check I didn't bork anything I get a green screen and the pc reboots. (I was still getting video out, just if I threw anything graphically intensive at it it crashed) Now here's where it get's interesting, after a few reboots voila it works...perfectly fine, so I stress tested it and thermals seem fine and the card now works as intended. I guess my question is, what did I do wrong? and why did it suddenly come back to life? Also, will it die on me soon? P.s, Before the card decided to work properly, I heard what kinda sounded like a cap popping or something... I'm not too sure.

So my brother has been having an issue with his laptop that has gotten progressively worse. He finally had the last straw the other day so I sat down to go through testing rounds to figure it out and identified what appeared to be a GPU throttling issue. It will, seemingly at random, drop frequency of the GPU which goes down to around 960mhz and the wattage of the 2060 will drop as well, down to around 40 watts. Obviously this tanks performance, but have tried many things to no avail. Verified it does this in both COD Warzone (2019, Black Ops Cold War, Cold War Zombies, and Vanguard), and Apex Legends so far. My brother also streams from his laptop and I had him install MSI afterburner and get the overlay configured so we could see whats happening when it behaves like this and we caught it live. Also id like to point out for OBS Studio that its been set in windows graphics settings to run in High Performance (so running on the 2060), and the preview window is disabled. Here's a clip of after it was running like normal, then throttled, then went back to normal and you can see the behavior i've described. https://clips.twitch.tv/ObedientVainPlumageOSfrog-ahLMOppvm4kebI0U Have tried: Clean reinstall of drivers, DDU and clean reinstall of drivers, windows 10 full reinstall, specifying any/all games and OBS Studio in the windows graphics settings to run in High Performance mode (so it runs on the 2060 instead of iGPU), setting GPU to "prefer maximum performance" in nvidia settings, setting Asus Armory Crate to max performance for the laptop, trying different game graphics settings, Hardware accelerated graphics scheduling on and off, set windows power plan to high performance, created custom max performance windows power plan. Figured okay maybe there's thermal throttling, lets just repaste it. Had my brother come over and we cleaned out the fans and heatsinks and redid the thermal paste. I was unfamiliar with the thicker goop used on the VRAM and VRMs though (come to find out its K5 Pro). We put some Kingpin KPx I happened to have (spread manually) on the CPU and GPU and I had extra Arctic MX-4 that I put a thick dollop on the VRAMs and small dollop on the VRMs and everywhere else that had the thicker goop. I'm seeing that many people online used 1mm thermal pads instead for anything that wasn't the CPU or GPU, so I may have to revisit this. He ran through a short amount of testing and the original issue described above seems to have cleared up. No more GPU throttling dropouts. But GPU temps can still reach mid-80s and CPU mid-90s. Watching him test this live on his stream with the MSI afterburner overlay going, I saw the CPU going from around 4ghz down to 2.6ghz and bouncing around like that. Here is a clip. https://www.twitch.tv/tzalman/clip/BlightedRelentlessMagpieYee-ESBJswGV0_TK-WGI No framerate drops like from the first clip though. So it feels like 2 steps forward 1 step backwards. Thinking of ordering thermal pads for the VRM and VRAM chips and redoing this again. Any feedback on KPx on the CPU and GPU or should I try something else? Thanks in advance.

I was working on repasting my CPU and had ended up reseating it while doing all of this. It seems to work fine, but the CPU voltage is reporting ~1.340V even though it's automatically set to 1.1V. There are no overclocks except for my RAM, and I have PBO turned off. I installed AMD's Ryzen Power Plan and selected the balanced one, but the voltage still reported 1.340V in BIOS. I was able to set a -0.2V offset to try to compensate for it somewhat, but I was wondering if there is a more permanent solution. Any suggestions? Specs: CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 Motherboard: ASUS PRIME B450M-A II RAM: G.Skill Aegis 2x8GB 3000 MHz (oc'd to 3133 MHz) GPU: EVGA RTX 3070 FTW3 Ultra PSU: Corsair RM850

I wanted to replace the fans on my 3060 (Gigabyte 3 fan card) since one of them died (it was making a ton of noise so idk if that counts), while doing that I decided to repaste it with K5 Pro that I saw in a LTT video (the thermal pads were falling off and the thermal paste on the gpu was a VERY thin layer). After the repaste and fan replacement I put the card in and it booted fine, however when under load the temps quickly jumped to 90 and the new fan wasn't spinning, so I took it out, put in another fan (that worked this time) and added more thermal paste to cover the VRMs. However, now it wont display anything. I plugged in an old card I have laying around and the computer wasn't even detecting the 3060 (the fans were spinning though). There is nothing covering the contacts that plug into the mobo and the only thing I can think that could have caused damage to the card during the repasted was I used the provided stick to push some thermal paste into an area where there was a gap on the VRMs near the display ports. I also know I added WAYYYYY too much thermal paste, I wasn't sure how much to add the second time because I was using the K5 to replace the thermal pads and wanted to make sure. I wiped away the excess that was oozing out. K5 is also not electrically conductive so I don't think there was a short, especially since it would have also shorted the first time. Drivers and everything is up to date, I honestly don't know what the cause could be. I might try wiping everything off and trying again, just in case something got in there that could be causing an issue.

Hello, I recently got an RTX3080ti (MSI Gaming X Trio) and I finished replacing the thermal pads (Gelid GP-Ultimate 15W) and repasting (Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut). I have much better thermals now where my memory is much cooler as well as my processor. Ran Furmark and it leveled out at 62C on the processor with a hot spot of 70C. I was wondering if this is a normal difference or if I maybe didn't paste correctly and need to crack it back open and re-paste again. Thank you in advance!

What is that blue plastic tool? The guy in this video used it to remove the thermal paste. Can someone please suggest me an alternate option? Something more DIY, perhaps

Hello everyone, i was wondering if 1 gram of thermal paste is enough for re pasting 4 dies ? 2 mobile CPU (7700hq and 4700hq) and 2 mobile GPU ( gtx 1070 and gtx 970m).

I have an old ASUS Strix Directcu ii GTX 970, which I want to reuse with my new build, at least until the Nvidia 3000 series cards come out. So I started dusting it off, pulled out a few screws, one thing led to another and the whole thing had to come apart, because I couldn’t put it back together again. Thankfully, I managed to lay my hands on an even older 670, so my new ryzen PC is running on that for now. This stupidity aside, I need some good advice on repasting and reassembling this 970. The following are pictures of my heat sink and the GPU chip with my attempt to remove the old paste. 1. Is this paste removal good enough? As you can see, there is still some old paste remaining in between the pipes of the heat sink, and on the components surrounding the GPU chip. Do those also have to go at any cost? 2. For the thermal paste, I have some NT-H1 remaining. Can I use this for GPUs, or is it not recommended? 3. The factory paste application was all over the chip and the surrounding components. Do I also have to do the same thing for the repasting? 4. Also, you can see a pretty big "ding" on one of the heat sink pipes. This was there from before. I don’t know what to do about this.

For the past 6.5 years i have been using my ASUS GTX 670 dcu2 with no issues and good temps thanks to an aggressive fan curve. while there is technically no problem with my card the way it is rite now i would like to potentially lower my temps and try for a slightly better overclock. if that can't be accomplished then i can easily live with lower fan speeds. however there is significant risk involved. if i accidentally damage my GPU i am screwed. this is my one and only GPU and i do not have the money to fix or replace it. with all that said i have 3 main questions. 1. can i safely and easily remove the cooler from my gpu to swap the thermal paste and are there any guides showing how to do it? 2. can i safely use arctic silver thermal paste on the GPU die? 3. if done will it give a noticeable enough impact to have made it worth it? aka substantially lower temps and more overclocking headroom. please only comment if you have experience re-pasting GPU's. speculation from people that have never done this doesn't help me in any sense of the word. i look forward to reading your responses and thank you for reading.

Hello, So... I'm buying a Lenovo y530 and after looking at some reviews, I saw people saying that the laptop tends to overheats a lot. And I'm thinking about Repaste the GPU, CPU and possibly also undervolting it, is this a good idea? My knowledge of tech is purely theoretical I've never taken apart a laptop or desktop, and while researching possible solutions I couldn't find a Repaste guide or full teardown of the y530, does anyone here own this laptop and/or has an idea of how to Repaste it?

Can somebody help me pls?