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Gabriel talbot
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hey so i have a gpu it is a bit older but it was starting to run a bit hot so i decided to clean it but now its not cooling well at all when under idle it sits at about 30 degrees celcius but when i go to play a game the temperture spikes then my displays go all glitchy followed by my gpu turning off but my pc stays turned on its just my gpu shuts off what should i do

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1 minute ago, Gabriel talbot said:

hey so i have a gpu it is a bit older but it was starting to run a bit hot so i decided to clean it but now its not cooling well at all when under idle it sits at about 30 degrees celcius but when i go to play a game the temperture spikes then my displays go all glitchy followed by my gpu turning off but my pc stays turned on its just my gpu shuts off what should i do

Which GPU is it?
And 30C idle is pretty good.

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1 minute ago, Gabriel talbot said:

its a gigabyte radeon hd 7870 ghz edition windforce

from what I know AMD cards of this era are pretty problematic when it comes to reliability. Just the other day I opened a laptop with one that would start games and crash. I would say that when you did the repasting the solder bals finally decided to gave up

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1 minute ago, Albert F said:

from what I know AMD cards of this era are pretty problematic when it comes to reliability. 

 

It's almost nine years old, what do you want from it? 

 

Note he doesn't say he repasted it, he only says he "cleaned" it. OP, describe exactly what you did to the card, please. 

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25 minutes ago, Gabriel talbot said:

now its not cooling well at all when under idle it sits at about 30 degrees celcius but when i go to play a game the temperture spikes

What was the idle temps prior to the cleaning? What temps does it spike to to?

Example my 1080 idles at 34c and jumps to 72c on heavy loads, which is common and fairly good.

And the same with other questions asked above...

 

 

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i did re paste it and cleaned it and the idle temps were about the same before as they are now and yes the card is very old and it has had many problems in the past which i have fixed and kept it running strong this card has surprised me and has served me well i just need to know if there is anything i can try to keep it going for a little bit longer till i get back to work after lockdown and can afford a new card all i did was clean the old thermal paste off with isopropyl alcohol and que tips and re applied it, I'm thinking that maybe i didn't put enough on but at the same time i thought i put quite a lot on

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and yes the fans are plugged in and spinning and the cooler is screwed in as much as i could get it the screws are very old and kind of striped

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