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antibyte
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I have a GIGABYTE WINDFORCE 3X 2070 and while gaming, the temps were consistently 88C, but never higher than that. I decided to take it apart to see the thermal paste and it looked pretty bad, yet I put it back together and now the temps are worse than before. Even when booting, the fans spike up to max and then I get a black screen telling me that HDMI is not connected (Yes, I know, 2070 with HDMI but a new monitor is on the horizon.) The only explanation I have to this is that the heatsink isn't making proper contact with the GPU, since when I manually pressed the backplate down, the temps got better, but not by much. Is there any way I can know and make sure the GPU heatsink is making proper contact? When unscrewing the backplate, the four main screws had small springs on them. I think it has something to do with those.

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5 minutes ago, antibyte said:

I have a GIGABYTE WINDFORCE 3X 2070 and while gaming, the temps were consistently 88C, but never higher than that. I decided to take it apart to see the thermal paste and it looked pretty bad, yet I put it back together and now the temps are worse than before. Even when booting, the fans spike up to max and then I get a black screen telling me that HDMI is not connected (Yes, I know, 2070 with HDMI but a new monitor is on the horizon.) The only explanation I have to this is that the heatsink isn't making proper contact with the GPU, since when I manually pressed the backplate down, the temps got better, but not by much. Is there any way I can know and make sure the GPU heatsink is making proper contact? When unscrewing the backplate, the four main screws had small springs on them. I think it has something to do with those.

Did you put new thermal paste when you take it apart?? I know sounds silly but it happens. 

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Just now, antibyte said:

No, not yet. I was just checking since I am waiting for new paste to come in. 

 

Well than I’m not surprised it’s running hotter. Just wait for new one and reapply than, you may damage gpu die this way. Once you take it out and saying it was quite bad, believe it’ll not get better.

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Just now, antibyte said:

I'll put in a picture of the paste. Even though this is the first time I have done this, I know it's pretty bad.

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Looks really dried out, please please please put new one and don’t run the card like that

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