I re-paste every used GPU that comes through my door. The one time I didn't, because I thought it was performing well and it was a rather new 3060, the user started complaining that it was running hot after a few months. Took it apart and the paste had pumped out. Granted, no noticeable improvement to performance. But it ran cooler and quieter, and that's the real reason to do it. The only time I ever saw a performance improvement was a 1060 that was used for mining that was thermally throttling down to 800 MHz. Paste was dry as a bone, AND it was caked in dust.
@@zaskiasetyo Yep, I'm working on one right now about a GPU that people keep suggesting for SFF Optiplex systems that people should avoid. Just working on calculating all the benchmark data today.
Please don't misunderstand. I wasn't calling you out at all. Just making the observation that so many other "testers" seem to have the tendency to skew their findings or over exaggerate their findings . I am GLAD that you are honest and tell the truth. That's exactly why I watch your series. Love your show. One of my top 10.
Understood and just so you know I watch every video you drop out. I hope that you can eventually afford to do this full time. You seem like a good kid and I like how you present things. I'm a retired tech and still need a little excitement in my life 😊
@ I really appreciate that man! One day I can make the leap to FT. I love making the videos and interacting with all of you guys who like them. Only time will tell if the channel will become large enough but I am hopeful :)
How much quieter the card got cannot be understated. Even if you got no temperature change at all, it still might be the fans spinning slower to reach the same temperature target. If not normalizing the test with a fixed fan speed, the difference can be more than the 6c difference you saw.
GPU Clock in fur mark looks like it picked up a boost bin👌if it did I'm kinda amazed it made that much difference, normally expect 7-12c to spot a difference.
Still using an 8 year old GTX 1060. Have not experienced any temperature increase beyond 83 degrees and frankly would only attempt a repaste IF i had enough budget for a replacement GPU.
I put top end paste on my gpu when I first get it. Then after 4 or 5 years I'll re paste it if I'm not upgrading it. I also re paste a card before giving it away just to be nice. It's not really a big deal, its more for my piece of mind, I don't trust a company to do the paste properly lol. I gotta make sure.
im going to repaste my 2080 super to quiet it down while gaming. it randomly ramps up the fans and gets pretty loud, and i think some new paste will help it out in that regard.
I'll say YES and I'll raise you 1 copper plate. My Gigabyte Vision 3080 ti always ran hot and the mem would get uncomfortably hot. Saw this guy on YT bragging about this copper plate he installed and well I did the same. I was shocked by how well it worked. 15c+ cooler! Yes, not lying. One of the best upgrades I've ever done. Never had an issue since!
Really depends tbh. I bought a used 6600xt which ran at 110c on the hot spot which was weird, cuz the guys said he cleaned and repasted it. I re did everything and then the hot spot was at 85 max. The old paste was not fresh. So be careful everyone 🤷
I always repaste and often repaste new ones as some brands use Subpar paste. If you know what you are doing "it's not hard on most cards" unlikely that you will hurt the card.
Sometimes repasting does nothing whatsoever too Take my old launch day EVGA GTX 970 for example I still use it in some secondary PC and decided to clean it up since well I've had it for quite sometime now ( still have the OG box) I have plenty of arctic silver mx 6 laying around so I used that, sadly it did nothing despite the actual paste being dry on the card. The temps were still the same under a gaming load. I discovered it was just the cooler or actual gpu die in general, it just ran toasty. How toasty? 77-79c Same case with my XFX RX580 I scored from ebay for $50. I bought second hand w/o knowing any history on it So after testing, the temps were what I expected 70 - 75c. But the card is a 2017 card, so I thought maybe it needed a cleaning. Which it did! The thermal pads had that oil residue everywhere on the board. So a good cleaning and repasting, temps were still the same. I didn't really expect any performance gains, that's not why I wanted to clean them. I did it because I just want to keep my stuff working. I spend good money on it and best to keep it going as long as I have it. I get the best temps from my 3 fan cards, my GTX 1070 for example it's a 3 fan gigabyte card, and it runs at 55-62c under load. My RTX 4070 ti, its a 3 fan white card and runs at 64c. Sorry for the lengthy post haha.
Hi, I really need some advice. I replaced my gpu thermal paste using ARTIC MX-6 and cleaned the old thermal paste off using thermal remover liquid and Artic thermal remover wipes that was on the caciptors. For some reason windows won't boot up when putting the DP cable into the gpu. Not sure what I did wrong, but I hope I haven't just killed my rtx 4080. 😬
It is possible that you missed a thermal pad and there is a short somewhere. I would take the card apart and look online at the pad layout and make sure you have all of the pads in the correct place and that they are the correct size
@ThePcRehab yeah all thermal pads are on.... Though one tore apart near the CPU thats in the center of the gpu and so I replaced it with the leftover thermal pad that came with my motherboard that's basically used for SSDs. I did get thermal paste on some of them but managed to wipe them off. So do you think there is any damage and can be fixed by a technician or will it have to be RMA??? Sorry for the late reply, buddy. 🙏👍
its more about removing whole dust, fur balls etc paste itself won't do jack shit (unless there is no at all) if you are still clugged with hairballs :D
did this on a 1660ti a friend and i were gifted just a couple weeks ago, to send to a friend's son who is on an even older gpu. we've done a bunch of repastes, so this little msi number should be the easiest ever - only four screws! can't get any easier than that. except... msi used the cheapest screws i've ever seen on a gpu & two of the four screws broke off in the threaded mounts with very little torque applied. the screws snapped off deep enough into the bushing to leave at least a couple or three millimeters of threading still accessible without having to try & drill those tiny things out, so we dug through our assortment of m2 screws & found some that ended up being short enough to firmly mount the heatsink to the gpu die. initial terror of breaking something was finally overcome by the adrenalin of having fixed the very thing we had just broken lol. technically our fault, but i also strongly feel msi shouldn't be saving fractions of a penny on such horrible screws.
repaste vs UV .... 5C too gigh my oc version of the 6700xt is at normal load heat 95c 111junc... after uv 55c 65junc (mine has already warenty thats why i now break the seal)
NO, don't do it. There is NO reason!!!! If you do that, it may cost you the whole card. I have been gaming since the 90's , and my first cards was the Riva TNT, GeForce 256, Voodoo 3d. And used my cards for 2 years usually. Never ever needed to do this. Graphics cards is sensitive, very sensitive. Rather undercook slightly and keep on using it if it gets a bit hot. Make sure there is no dust....etc
I would say the average user shouldn’t repaste a gpu. If you’re tech savvy and you know what you’re doing, go for it. But there are stories about folks trying to change thermal pads and messing up their cards from not being able to get the right pads. Short take, if the card is running well don’t mess with it. If the card is running too hot then you might as well if you know what you’re doing
Im not sure if i should re-paste or not. I have a reference 7900XTX and im aware of the vapor chamber issues, though im not sure if mine suffers or not. If i leave it at stock power, temp is 70c with junction temp of 95 - 102c. I dont like that, so i nornally run it -10 on the power limit, and suddenly its about 65c with junction of 75 - 78c. Delta of less than 15c vs a delta of 30c is way more comfortable for me. BUT if i had +5 or +10 to the power, my junction temp goes up to 110c and the card throttles. To my understanding, the vapor chamber issue only applied if this happened at stock power, which doesnt happen with my card. Ive always wondered if a repaste would help. Hmm
This is a known issue with the 7900XTX. I had the same problem but fixed it by taking it apart and removing the factory paste and replacing it with a PTM7950 pad. Junction temps went from 100+c to 80-85c. This drammatically reduced the fan noise level and stopped the thermal throttling.
@ Awesome thank you for this! This motivates me to actually do it knowing someone else faced the same issue and it might not just be vapor chamber related.
Repasting has little to no effect on performance. Cleaning cat hair dog hair dust etc. yes that can have a small impact but please please do not think for one second this is the be all end all "fix" for a GPU that's having overheating issues. Just saying what we all should know. I'm just glad someone has the balls to say hey look. I saw no difference. That's all I meant.
@The PC Rehab could you please do not use auto translating titles and description, try out some advanced translator so it doesn't get wrong, in Brazilian Portuguese the title doesn't make sense hahahah
Look. There is minimal difference between repasting a gou as opposed to original paste and current. PLEASE do not fall victim to the jz2c and gamers nexus bs. It's crap. I've been a tech for well over 30 years. I don't lie. I don't exaggerate for money or like. I'm just an honest to goodness real computer tech. Repasting does absolutely NOTHING to increase your gameplay. Please please do not mislead people that may not know the difference. Thanks. Love the videos. Watch them all. Sorry to be so honest.
I said in the video that there was no preformance gain, just an improvement in thermals. Was just a honest experiment to see for myself and figured I’d bring yall along for the ride 😜 glad you love the videos man! I appreciate you!
what a bad video. you don't repaste your gpu to gain performance. you are doing it in order to keep the thermals as normal as possible so that the gpu can live longer. you are focused solely on the performance aspect. sure you might gain 1 or 2 fps more but that's way beyond the reason to repaste it.
You're wrong. Repasting GPU is almost always to gain more performance. Nobody likes thermal throttling. Temps under 85° won't affect the card's longevity whatsoever, but everyone's been conditioned to believe otherwise despite the manufacturers and engineers themselves have confirmed this time and time again. Most GPUs outlive their usefulness.
I re-paste every used GPU that comes through my door. The one time I didn't, because I thought it was performing well and it was a rather new 3060, the user started complaining that it was running hot after a few months. Took it apart and the paste had pumped out. Granted, no noticeable improvement to performance. But it ran cooler and quieter, and that's the real reason to do it. The only time I ever saw a performance improvement was a 1060 that was used for mining that was thermally throttling down to 800 MHz. Paste was dry as a bone, AND it was caked in dust.
will there be a new video from you... sir???😢
@@zaskiasetyo Yep, I'm working on one right now about a GPU that people keep suggesting for SFF Optiplex systems that people should avoid. Just working on calculating all the benchmark data today.
its not boosting/upgrading its more like a maintenance, which is good if youre planning to use it for a long long time, like changing oil on an engine
Please don't misunderstand. I wasn't calling you out at all. Just making the observation that so many other "testers" seem to have the tendency to skew their findings or over exaggerate their findings . I am GLAD that you are honest and tell the truth. That's exactly why I watch your series. Love your show. One of my top 10.
Oh I know bud, it’s all good :) I try my best to say what I see and if I see nothing I say that lol.
Understood and just so you know I watch every video you drop out. I hope that you can eventually afford to do this full time. You seem like a good kid and I like how you present things. I'm a retired tech and still need a little excitement in my life 😊
@ I really appreciate that man! One day I can make the leap to FT. I love making the videos and interacting with all of you guys who like them. Only time will tell if the channel will become large enough but I am hopeful :)
Always good pc wisdom- taking care of your components will ensure long life. Appreciate the vid!
It's all about keeping that tech alive!
How much quieter the card got cannot be understated. Even if you got no temperature change at all, it still might be the fans spinning slower to reach the same temperature target. If not normalizing the test with a fixed fan speed, the difference can be more than the 6c difference you saw.
GPU Clock in fur mark looks like it picked up a boost bin👌if it did I'm kinda amazed it made that much difference, normally expect 7-12c to spot a difference.
Honestly the performance gains will depends heavily on the GPU model, as well as the cooler design.
Still using an 8 year old GTX 1060. Have not experienced any temperature increase beyond 83 degrees and frankly would only attempt a repaste IF i had enough budget for a replacement GPU.
@0:14 "THE FAITH OF THE WORLD DEPENDS ON IT"
All the faith
That amount of thermal paste was scary
I put top end paste on my gpu when I first get it. Then after 4 or 5 years I'll re paste it if I'm not upgrading it. I also re paste a card before giving it away just to be nice. It's not really a big deal, its more for my piece of mind, I don't trust a company to do the paste properly lol. I gotta make sure.
im going to repaste my 2080 super to quiet it down while gaming. it randomly ramps up the fans and gets pretty loud, and i think some new paste will help it out in that regard.
I’ve never re-pasted a card for performance, only for maintenance if needed or if buying an older card that wasn’t very well taken care of
I'll say YES and I'll raise you 1 copper plate. My Gigabyte Vision 3080 ti always ran hot and the mem would get uncomfortably hot. Saw this guy on YT bragging about this copper plate he installed and well I did the same. I was shocked by how well it worked. 15c+ cooler! Yes, not lying. One of the best upgrades I've ever done. Never had an issue since!
Really depends tbh. I bought a used 6600xt which ran at 110c on the hot spot which was weird, cuz the guys said he cleaned and repasted it. I re did everything and then the hot spot was at 85 max. The old paste was not fresh. So be careful everyone 🤷
I always repaste and often repaste new ones as some brands use Subpar paste. If you know what you are doing "it's not hard on most cards" unlikely that you will hurt the card.
I always re-paste and put a fresh set of thermal pads on used cards I buy.
0:50 I find maintaining my pc more fun that using my pc lol
Yes, use PTM. PTM is one of the only TIMs that performs well, and is designed to perform well for years.
Sometimes repasting does nothing whatsoever too
Take my old launch day EVGA GTX 970 for example
I still use it in some secondary PC and decided to clean it up since well I've had it for quite sometime now ( still have the OG box)
I have plenty of arctic silver mx 6 laying around so I used that, sadly it did nothing despite the actual paste being dry on the card. The temps were still the same under a gaming load.
I discovered it was just the cooler or actual gpu die in general, it just ran toasty. How toasty? 77-79c
Same case with my XFX RX580 I scored from ebay for $50. I bought second hand w/o knowing any history on it
So after testing, the temps were what I expected 70 - 75c. But the card is a 2017 card, so I thought maybe it needed a cleaning. Which it did!
The thermal pads had that oil residue everywhere on the board. So a good cleaning and repasting, temps were still the same.
I didn't really expect any performance gains, that's not why I wanted to clean them. I did it because I just want to keep my stuff working.
I spend good money on it and best to keep it going as long as I have it.
I get the best temps from my 3 fan cards, my GTX 1070 for example it's a 3 fan gigabyte card, and it runs at 55-62c under load.
My RTX 4070 ti, its a 3 fan white card and runs at 64c. Sorry for the lengthy post haha.
It looks like you made a mistake with the thickness of the thermal pads because the temperature in the memory increased
Hi, I really need some advice. I replaced my gpu thermal paste using ARTIC MX-6 and cleaned the old thermal paste off using thermal remover liquid and Artic thermal remover wipes that was on the caciptors. For some reason windows won't boot up when putting the DP cable into the gpu. Not sure what I did wrong, but I hope I haven't just killed my rtx 4080. 😬
It is possible that you missed a thermal pad and there is a short somewhere. I would take the card apart and look online at the pad layout and make sure you have all of the pads in the correct place and that they are the correct size
@ThePcRehab yeah all thermal pads are on.... Though one tore apart near the CPU thats in the center of the gpu and so I replaced it with the leftover thermal pad that came with my motherboard that's basically used for SSDs. I did get thermal paste on some of them but managed to wipe them off. So do you think there is any damage and can be fixed by a technician or will it have to be RMA???
Sorry for the late reply, buddy. 🙏👍
its more about removing whole dust, fur balls etc
paste itself won't do jack shit (unless there is no at all) if you are still clugged with hairballs :D
I replaced the paste on my old laptop’s 970m, it still gets to 70*C while playing GTA5 at barely 60fps. I thinks she’s just cooked lads.
did this on a 1660ti a friend and i were gifted just a couple weeks ago, to send to a friend's son who is on an even older gpu. we've done a bunch of repastes, so this little msi number should be the easiest ever - only four screws! can't get any easier than that. except... msi used the cheapest screws i've ever seen on a gpu & two of the four screws broke off in the threaded mounts with very little torque applied. the screws snapped off deep enough into the bushing to leave at least a couple or three millimeters of threading still accessible without having to try & drill those tiny things out, so we dug through our assortment of m2 screws & found some that ended up being short enough to firmly mount the heatsink to the gpu die. initial terror of breaking something was finally overcome by the adrenalin of having fixed the very thing we had just broken lol. technically our fault, but i also strongly feel msi shouldn't be saving fractions of a penny on such horrible screws.
repaste vs UV .... 5C too gigh my oc version of the 6700xt is at normal load heat 95c 111junc... after uv 55c 65junc (mine has already warenty thats why i now break the seal)
NO, don't do it. There is NO reason!!!! If you do that, it may cost you the whole card. I have been gaming since the 90's , and my first cards was the Riva TNT, GeForce 256, Voodoo 3d. And used my cards for 2 years usually. Never ever needed to do this. Graphics cards is sensitive, very sensitive. Rather undercook slightly and keep on using it if it gets a bit hot. Make sure there is no dust....etc
aaah yes...the two fan 5700XT.....had an MSI Evoke OC.....sounded like a hair dryer at full load, with the hot spot temp hitting >95c....
I would say the average user shouldn’t repaste a gpu. If you’re tech savvy and you know what you’re doing, go for it. But there are stories about folks trying to change thermal pads and messing up their cards from not being able to get the right pads.
Short take, if the card is running well don’t mess with it. If the card is running too hot then you might as well if you know what you’re doing
THIS!
i just re-paste ny gpu 3 days ago. GTX 1660 Super, it drops by 10-15°C
Im not sure if i should re-paste or not. I have a reference 7900XTX and im aware of the vapor chamber issues, though im not sure if mine suffers or not. If i leave it at stock power, temp is 70c with junction temp of 95 - 102c. I dont like that, so i nornally run it -10 on the power limit, and suddenly its about 65c with junction of 75 - 78c. Delta of less than 15c vs a delta of 30c is way more comfortable for me. BUT if i had +5 or +10 to the power, my junction temp goes up to 110c and the card throttles. To my understanding, the vapor chamber issue only applied if this happened at stock power, which doesnt happen with my card. Ive always wondered if a repaste would help. Hmm
This is a known issue with the 7900XTX. I had the same problem but fixed it by taking it apart and removing the factory paste and replacing it with a PTM7950 pad. Junction temps went from 100+c to 80-85c. This drammatically reduced the fan noise level and stopped the thermal throttling.
@ Awesome thank you for this! This motivates me to actually do it knowing someone else faced the same issue and it might not just be vapor chamber related.
My GPU is getting a bit hot though, reaching close to over 65c sometimes
not very hot at all my 3080ti FE gets up to 77c under a stress test with relatively considerate fan curve
@ wow
the purpose of repasting is lower temps, not to gain fps
I get that lol…watch the whole video 🫡
Repasting has little to no effect on performance. Cleaning cat hair dog hair dust etc. yes that can have a small impact but please please do not think for one second this is the be all end all "fix" for a GPU that's having overheating issues. Just saying what we all should know. I'm just glad someone has the balls to say hey look. I saw no difference. That's all I meant.
Worth it ? Its something that everyone should and know how to do. Its like saying is it worth changing the brakes on my car !!
Mine from hitting over 100c drop to 70-80c
Should've used PTM 7950
The card would run quieter.
we need beer !!!!!!!
Hahaha
@The PC Rehab could you please do not use auto translating titles and description, try out some advanced translator so it doesn't get wrong, in Brazilian Portuguese the title doesn't make sense hahahah
Look. There is minimal difference between repasting a gou as opposed to original paste and current. PLEASE do not fall victim to the jz2c and gamers nexus bs. It's crap. I've been a tech for well over 30 years. I don't lie. I don't exaggerate for money or like. I'm just an honest to goodness real computer tech. Repasting does absolutely NOTHING to increase your gameplay. Please please do not mislead people that may not know the difference. Thanks. Love the videos. Watch them all. Sorry to be so honest.
I said in the video that there was no preformance gain, just an improvement in thermals. Was just a honest experiment to see for myself and figured I’d bring yall along for the ride 😜 glad you love the videos man! I appreciate you!
Its less of a "how much does it perform after maintenance" and more of "how much of life can I let it live longer before it becomes a paperweight"
Nice video
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Well said. Repaisting is part of the mantinance of your pc, but only when the temps are showing higher than they should be.
its not about gaining its about mainte
🤦♂️ why don’t yall finish videos lol
@ i finish the video my friend but i wan it to comment that sorry if offend you
what a bad video. you don't repaste your gpu to gain performance. you are doing it in order to keep the thermals as normal as possible so that the gpu can live longer. you are focused solely on the performance aspect. sure you might gain 1 or 2 fps more but that's way beyond the reason to repaste it.
You clearly did not pay attention to the WHOLE video
You're wrong. Repasting GPU is almost always to gain more performance. Nobody likes thermal throttling. Temps under 85° won't affect the card's longevity whatsoever, but everyone's been conditioned to believe otherwise despite the manufacturers and engineers themselves have confirmed this time and time again. Most GPUs outlive their usefulness.
Nawww just get a new one every 4yrs
this guy is so annoying
Aww aren’t you the sweetest 😘