Thermal paste recommendations for the RTX 2060 and the RTX 3060

[radoncombe]

Hello,

I was wondering if there were any thermal paste replacements I could do on both cards to get better temperatures. I frequently overclock these cards and over time they get hot and stay that way. I heard from a source that replacing the thermal paste for the GPU might help with lowering these temperatures, improving heat spread, etc. Dunno much but I just wanted to get some recommendations or even opinions on this from the community.   

Hope to hear from you.. soon

[BobVonBob]

Use the same thermal paste you would on a CPU. I'd also suggest you make sure it's not electrically conductive since the components around the GPU die are not shielded by the IHS like they would be on a CPU.

[m9x3mos]

2 hours ago, radoncombe said:

Hello,

I was wondering if there were any thermal paste replacements I could do on both cards to get better temperatures. I frequently overclock these cards and over time they get hot and stay that way. I heard from a source that replacing the thermal paste for the GPU might help with lowering these temperatures, improving heat spread, etc. Dunno much but I just wanted to get some recommendations or even opinions on this from the community.   

Hope to hear from you.. soon

I used arctic mx-4 on my 3090 and it worked fine. Just make sure to cover the entire die or you might end up with hot spots. I would highly recommend watching some tutorial videos first to get comfortable with the process before you do it. 

[radoncombe]

2 hours ago, m9x3mos said:

I used arctic mx-4 on my 3090 and it worked fine. Just make sure to cover the entire die or you might end up with hot spots. I would highly recommend watching some tutorial videos first to get comfortable with the process before you do it. 

Gotcha.

 

Thanks

[radoncombe]

4 hours ago, BobVonBob said:

Use the same thermal paste you would on a CPU. I'd also suggest you make sure it's not electrically conductive since the components around the GPU die are not shielded by the IHS like they would be on a CPU.

Yes. I've been watching out the conductive pastes. 

They are one heck of a pain in the butt

 

[Chiyawa]

I used Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut. Works fine.

 

As for CPU Thermal Paste, try to get something with high thermal conductivity. I tried Corsair TM-30 and it's not ideal.

 

My GPU is Gigabyte Radeon RX Vega 64 Gaming OC.

[radoncombe]

18 minutes ago, Chiyawa said:

I used Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut. Works fine.

 

As for CPU Thermal Paste, try to get something with high thermal conductivity. I tried Corsair TM-30 and it's not ideal.

 

My GPU is Gigabyte Radeon RX Vega 64 Gaming OC.

Thanks.