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8 minutes ago, afaq0 said:

Thanks for the fast replies. The community is really nice. 

 

I'll have a look at the card and will try and clean it. I am not too sure what thermal paste is but I will look it up and try to make it better. 

 

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Thermal paste is a material made partially out of silver (with high quality) designed to be between a surface that gets hot (the GPU) and a surface that will cool it (the cooler). It is designed to better make the heat travel to the part that will cool it down.

Look for non conductive thermal paste.

10 minutes ago, Julian2000nl said:

I always say

0-10 Too cold

10 - 40 Normal

40 - 50 Average

50 -70 Warming up

70 - 80 Slightly hot

80 - 90 Hot

90+ Dangerously hot

While this is generally helpful, you should still keep in mind some cards are designed to run hotter than others. OP's card for example can max run at 99 degrees C. While yeah, 90+ is hot, it is not dangerously hot.

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i Get 80-90C GPU temp when gaming. Is this normal?

I was playing a game from 2012. I have a gtx 550 ti.

 

I just bought a gtx 550 ti recently and just need a bit of help getting started. 

Also I have MSI Afterburner if I can for anything with that to help. If getting 90c is a problem then should i decrease clock speeds and memory clock speeds to improve temps?

Sorry if I said anything incorrectly because I am a beginner.

 

Thanks for reading! 

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Not normal, even for a 550ti.

 

Since it is old, better check if dust clogged the heatsink and fan blades.Otherwise, it could be that the thermal paste dried up. Not surprising for an old card like this.

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The max operating temperature for that videocard is 99 degrees Celcius, so you're fine. Is it normal? Maybe not for a new card, but for a card this age it's probably the thermal paste causing the higher temperatures.

 

Consider taking it apart, cleaning it up and applying new thermal paste if you want to improve its thermals.

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Thanks for the fast replies. The community is really nice. 

 

I'll have a look at the card and will try and clean it. I am not too sure what thermal paste is but I will look it up and try to make it better. 

 

Thanks. 

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1 minute ago, Julian2000nl said:

I always say

0-10 Too cold

10 - 40 Normal

40 - 50 Average

50 -70 Warming up

70 - 80 Slightly hot

80 - 90 Hot

90+ Dangerously hot

Hmmm. Ok. So I think mine is around 70 to 90 hitting 91 at max. I'll try to clean it as others recommended. Thanks for the info. I like the colours :P

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8 minutes ago, afaq0 said:

Thanks for the fast replies. The community is really nice. 

 

I'll have a look at the card and will try and clean it. I am not too sure what thermal paste is but I will look it up and try to make it better. 

 

Thanks. 

Thermal paste is a material made partially out of silver (with high quality) designed to be between a surface that gets hot (the GPU) and a surface that will cool it (the cooler). It is designed to better make the heat travel to the part that will cool it down.

Look for non conductive thermal paste.

10 minutes ago, Julian2000nl said:

I always say

0-10 Too cold

10 - 40 Normal

40 - 50 Average

50 -70 Warming up

70 - 80 Slightly hot

80 - 90 Hot

90+ Dangerously hot

While this is generally helpful, you should still keep in mind some cards are designed to run hotter than others. OP's card for example can max run at 99 degrees C. While yeah, 90+ is hot, it is not dangerously hot.

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nothing out of the blue, no it's not ideal but it's not going to damage the card.

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11 minutes ago, Minibois said:

While this is generally helpful, you should still keep in mind some cards are designed to run hotter than others. OP's card for example can max run at 99 degrees C. While yeah, 90+ is hot, it is not dangerously hot.

Then there's my 480 that didn't even throttle until something ludicrous like 110 even though it tends to only run in the mid 70's. Because good ol Nvoodia had no idea what the fuck temp limit was when they were developing these.

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Just realized that my psu is 300w which is not recommended. Could this be one of the causes to higher temps?

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12 minutes ago, afaq0 said:

Just realized that my psu is 300w which is not recommended. Could this be one of the causes to higher temps?

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I was quite busy this week and came back to sort this out. I think thermal paste should solve the problem. Just wondering what would be the difference between a $1 one and a $5 one. Want to go cheaper but don't know what I'm getting. I put a screenshot showing 3 I saw. 

 

 

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Go cheap!! What i mean is go grab a tube of toothpaste and use that?

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3 minutes ago, Bcat00 said:

Go cheap!! What i mean is go grab a tube of toothpaste and use that?

It was probably a joke but could I actually use it?

Anyway I found this one on Amazon and will just get this as it looks nice. ??

i think some people on YouTube also used this paste. 

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There is little difference in terms of temperature.  How long the cheap ones last is another matter.  That's always a gamble.

 

As others stated before, be sure to get non-conductive thermal paste.  We can't stress this enough. 

With a GPU the chance of the thermal paste spreading onto the PCB is quite large (in fact that's normal).  Conductive thermal paste would cause a short-circuit that could kill the GPU. 

 

Examples of non-conductive paste found through a quick look at Amazon : Arctic MX-2, Deepcool Z9.  The MX-4 seems safe to use too.

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57 minutes ago, Captain Chaos said:

There is little difference in terms of temperature.  How long the cheap ones last is another matter.  That's always a gamble.

 

As others stated before, be sure to get non-conductive thermal paste.  We can't stress this enough. 

With a GPU the chance of the thermal paste spreading onto the PCB is quite large (in fact that's normal).  Conductive thermal paste would cause a short-circuit that could kill the GPU. 

 

Examples of non-conductive paste found through a quick look at Amazon : Arctic MX-2, Deepcool Z9.  The MX-4 seems safe to use too.

im pretty sure the 550ti has an ihs, so it shouldnt matter

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10 minutes ago, Nickathom said:

im pretty sure the 550ti has an ihs, so it shouldnt matter

I don't like having my gpu hit 90 when gaming so I would like to do something about it. If it has a ihs then it is not doing very well and so I would like to get the MX-4 Thermal paste. I'm assuming ihs stands for internal heat sink. lol I don't know much about these things. 

 

1 hour ago, Captain Chaos said:

There is little difference in terms of temperature.  How long the cheap ones last is another matter.  That's always a gamble.

 

As others stated before, be sure to get non-conductive thermal paste.  We can't stress this enough. 

With a GPU the chance of the thermal paste spreading onto the PCB is quite large (in fact that's normal).  Conductive thermal paste would cause a short-circuit that could kill the GPU. 

 

Examples of non-conductive paste found through a quick look at Amazon : Arctic MX-2, Deepcool Z9.  The MX-4 seems safe to use too.

Yeh the MX-4 looks good. Seller said it was non conductive so I will buy. Just want someone to confirm that it will help and that having an ihs does not mean that it shouldn't matter. 

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Just had a look at the thermal compound on my gpu and this was the result. I have now ordered the MX-2 so that hopefully I can use it and fix the 80-90 temperatures. 

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On ‎2017‎.‎07‎.‎08‎. at 1:46 PM, afaq0 said:

I Yeh the MX-4 looks good. Seller said it was non conductive so I will buy. Just want someone to confirm that it will help and that having an ihs does not mean that it shouldn't matter. 

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dunno.. I wouldn't trust someone that was born 15 years ago...

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I've ordered the MX-2 thermal paste and want to know the best way to remove the old dry thermal paste so that I can apply the new one. 

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I applied new thermal paste and it did not decrease the temperature from the high 90c. Do you think there is something wrong with the card?

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