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Is the thermal paste meant to be like this?

ar300500
By ar300500
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I got this graphics card 6 months ago

Its an msi r9 390x

 

I have never removed the cooler from the card. I was experiencing temperature issues so I decided to change the thermal paste

 

The thermal paste was thick and clumpy and in the middle of the die I cannot tell if it has dried out.

After replacing it my temps dropped by 7 c 

 

Is it just my card or is this normal (I'm asking about the stock thermal paste application not temps)

 

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thats fine, its supposed to be like that, its non conductive so its no problem

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That's supposed to be like that.

 

Take a watch here:

 

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Yes it's supposed to be like that.

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4 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

I'd say maybe uneven mounting pressure. Some of the die isn't covered.

i think that bit is stuck to the heatsink side. OP said it was a bit crusty.

 

on topic: on GPUs its common practisce (and advised) to use non-conductive paste, and use LOTS of it so it covers the die in its entirety since theres no heatspreader to make sure its all okay. the spills is more of a "matter to make sure its all coated" since theres nothing around the gpu die to be damaged either way.

 

the reason why on the cpu you *really* dont want spills is because the socket is basicly right there, and a mess to clean even with non-conductive paste.

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Yeah I know how to do it I just wanted to know is this how all card manufactures do it.

 

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