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I am getting back my 980 reference (81% asic and Samsung memory <3) so I was wanting to know how I could decrease temps.

I was thinking replacing thermal paste and of course, fan curve but I was wondering if there is anything else I can do?

I will be hopefully water cooling soon after but in case I'm not, what could o do?

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hybrid cooler. or HOT GLUE GUN a few noctua industrail ppc fan with full speed.

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I am getting back my 980 reference (81% asic and Samsung memory <3) so I was wanting to know how I could decrease temps.

I was thinking replacing thermal paste and of course, fan curve but I was wondering if there is anything else I can do?

I will be hopefully water cooling soon after but in case I'm not, what could o do?

thermal paste wont do much, i tried this, the only real way would be to get a bracket and put a water cooler on it.

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With the stock cooler there is nothing much you could try other than changing the thermal paste and pads, and using a faster fan curve.

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you maybe could buy the separate hybrid cooler from evga

 

 

hybrid cooler. or HOT GLUE GUN a few noctua industrail ppc fan with full speed.

In OP I said I was going to watercool..

 

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thermal paste wont do much, i tried this, the only real way would be to get a bracket and put a water cooler on it.

Yeah I have been thinking this, may just leave stock until I water cool and use MX-4 THEN

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In OP I said I was going to watercool..

 

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Yeah I have been thinking this, may just leave stock until I water cool and use MX-4 THEN

Gelid GC-Extreme. If you have the money to spend you could try that Kyronaut stuff.

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Gelid GC-Extreme. If you have the money to spend you could try that Kyronaut stuff.

I have MX-4 lying around, doubt it's worth the extra money so

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I have MX-4 lying around, doubt it's worth the extra money so

Didn't know you already have it so just go with that. Temp differences won't be that big anyway, maybe 2*C at best.

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Didn't know you already have it so just go with that. Temp differences won't be that big anyway, maybe 2*C at best.

Yeah that's why i'm only going to use it with the watercooler because 2c at 40c is a much bigger difference than 2c at 80c

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Get some thermal grizzly Kyronaut, its the best paste around now, should drop a degree or 2 compared to other high end stuff, more compared to stock compound ofcourse.

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