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thermal pad question

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warpigeon

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Installed an NV5 silencer to my evga 6800gt and I'm thinking that I didn't apply the proper amount of thermal paste to the gpu because my temps went up about 6 degrees. Anyway, I want to take it off and reapply but although the gpu takes paste, the ram sinks have thermal pads. I know you can't "re-use" thermal pads on cpus but what about video card ram sinks? Can I proceed and redo the gpu thermal paste and re-use the thermal pads that came with the NV5? Any knowledge appreciated.

ps. I've got some AS5 laying around, should I use that on the gpu instead of the supplied paste?
 
Originally posted by: warpigeon
Installed an NV5 silencer to my evga 6800gt and I'm thinking that I didn't apply the proper amount of thermal paste to the gpu because my temps went up about 6 degrees. Anyway, I want to take it off and reapply but although the gpu takes paste, the ram sinks have thermal pads. I know you can't "re-use" thermal pads on cpus but what about video card ram sinks? Can I proceed and redo the gpu thermal paste and re-use the thermal pads that came with the NV5? Any knowledge appreciated.

ps. I've got some AS5 laying around, should I use that on the gpu instead of the supplied paste?
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Weird. I installed the latest drivers from nvidia and my temps went way down.

Temp at idle with stock cooling and 71.84= 64*
With NV5 and 71.84= 70*
With NV5 and 71.89= 59*

Now I don't have to crack thing open!
 
Originally posted by: warpigeon
Originally posted by: warpigeon
Installed an NV5 silencer to my evga 6800gt and I'm thinking that I didn't apply the proper amount of thermal paste to the gpu because my temps went up about 6 degrees. Anyway, I want to take it off and reapply but although the gpu takes paste, the ram sinks have thermal pads. I know you can't "re-use" thermal pads on cpus but what about video card ram sinks? Can I proceed and redo the gpu thermal paste and re-use the thermal pads that came with the NV5? Any knowledge appreciated.

ps. I've got some AS5 laying around, should I use that on the gpu instead of the supplied paste?
Click to expand...

Weird. I installed the latest drivers from nvidia and my temps went way down.

Temp at idle with stock cooling and 71.84= 64*
With NV5 and 71.84= 70*
With NV5 and 71.89= 59*

Now I don't have to crack thing open!
Click to expand...

Whoa, something's fishy there though. My temps were the same through all of the drivers...
 
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