Change your thermal paste - What a difference!

[Tz000]

Just wanted to share my experiences with changing my thermal paste on my Asus Dual RX 580 8GB.

 

If anyone is having troubles with overclocks, temps or just want a cooler card, I would highly suggest changing out your thermal paste to something new. 

 

I just took my GPU apart this morning & used some Cryorig CP7 after cleaning off the old paste (Couldn't believe how much there was on there from factory...) and what a difference!  I was easily able to achieve a +100mhz overclock on the GPU so 1460mhz from 1360 and +150mhz on the memory (2150mhz from 2000mhz) all while now staying well under 75 degrees c.  Before the thermal paste change the card would throttle down to 1280mhz and be easily hovering around the 81-84c limits without any overclock.

 

Took me 10min and I just used whatever thermal paste I had lying around I would highly suggest people do this.

 

Cheers!

 

 

[Max_Settings]

Typically replacing thermal past is only a 2-3C difference from stock on most cards. Unless you have an old card with worn out paste. My old 980 had a 12C drop when I replaced the paste after about a year and a half of use.

[Yoola]

To go even further you can apply liquid metal. That might be way more efficient. 

[Tz000]

2 hours ago, Max_Settings said:

Typically replacing thermal past is only a 2-3C difference from stock on most cards. Unless you have an old card with worn out paste. My old 980 had a 12C drop when I replaced the paste after about a year and a half of use.

Yeah I wasn't expecting much but the card was so much easier to overclock and find stability.  The manner in which they put the paste on was just insane there was so much hard crusty crap everywhere. 

 

2 hours ago, Yoola said:

To go even further you can apply liquid metal. That might be way more efficient. 

Yeah I have been looking at that stuff seems like quite the product.  I will probably try it one day.. but for now my temps and cooling solutions for my use are acceptable.

 

 

[Bcat00]

Its not the type of paste on there, it's the contact surface (aka pressure and meeting point).

Just because it came from the factory doesn't mean the chip is making perfect contact or the past is spread evenly.

 

In your case its likely the paste is just outright crap that they found in the garbage bin to throw out the assembly line lol

[Tz000]

Just now, Bcat00 said:

Its not the type of paste on there, it's the contact surface (aka pressure and meeting point).

Just because it came from the factory doesn't mean the chip is making perfect contact or the past is spread evenly.

 

In your case its likely the paste is just outright crap that they found in the garbage bin to throw out the assembly line lol

Yeah it was applied horribly.. and due to the vast amount they used it seemed that the heat sink wasn't able to contact the gpu with enough pressure to provide the most effective cooling.

[AntiTrust]

7 hours ago, Tz000 said:

Yeah it was applied horribly.. and due to the vast amount they used it seemed that the heat sink wasn't able to contact the gpu with enough pressure to provide the most effective cooling.

And this is how ASUS builds their $900 flagship graphics cards... yeesh 

[Tz000]

1 minute ago, AntiTrust said:

And this is how ASUS builds their $900 flagship graphics cards... yeesh 

There was honestly so much applied when I took off the heat sink I thought it was a depressed thermal pad then realized the mess I had to clean haha..

[AntiTrust]

14 minutes ago, Tz000 said:

There was honestly so much applied when I took off the heat sink I thought it was a depressed thermal pad then realized the mess I had to clean haha..

haha     "we're going to need more isopropyl "