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My GPU Thermal paste replacement experience

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By the jolly roger
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k so i noticed something was wrong with the XFX 270x when the idle temps were 50c and the fans were at 40%, and when gaming in War Thunder the temps were from 75 all the way to 80, i know those temps are fine but the fans were at 70%, needless to say it was like a jet engine, so i thought of replacing the paste, i was scared that i would damage my card but i am glad i did, idle temps are now 35 with the fans at 20%, and the load temps are 70c but with the fans at 50%, much better since my headphones  (hd558) are open back so dont have any sound cancelation at all, like at all.

 

i did sadly void my warranty, but that is just XFX, i know for a fact that EVGA doesnt care you replacing the paste or even replacing the cooler to a waterblock or an nzxt g10, as long as you RMA it with the stock cooler.

 

when i poped open the cooler, the paste was all dried out, so dry that i had trouble scraping it off with toilet paper and isopropyl alcohol, and i was amazing because my card is 3 months old, so i replaced it with some Noctua NH-T1 paste, and always remembering the rule that "less is more", specially since the gpu core is sooo tiny, it thought it would be bigger.

 

So yea this was my little GPU paste experience

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nice job :)

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I used to have an R9 270 (Same core as R9 270X) and I can confirm that it's a pretty small core. I noticed no difference in temps when I replaced the thermal paste on my GTX 970 Gigabyte G1 though.

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I used to have an R9 270 (Same core as R9 270X) and I can confirm that it's a pretty small core. I noticed no difference in temps when I replaced the thermal paste on my GTX 970 Gigabyte G1 though.

yea now after a bit the temps are back to normal, when i posted that i literally finished, booted up and ran valley benckmark, now they are like 3c lower and the fans are still ramping up a bit

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XFX is a company that states "Do not remove the thermal paste since we use optimal thermal paste bla bla bla" Still to this day have not had a single (non-soldered) IHS, CPU, or GPU that didn't benefit noticeably from thermal paste re application from stock.

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