Hey all,
Attempting to fix extremely hot VRM temps (-->125C) on my decrepit HD5870 I popped the heat sink off and put some thermal paste on.. everything.
This seems to have fixed the VRM issue, but now GPU temp #3 which I think is the VRAM is approaching 120C under stress testing. Probably because thermal paste was a bad idea.
http://imgur.com/zcDyBgE
(Ignore the fan speed. Its not being controlled, because my current cooling solution looks like this http://imgur.com/zXjStgz)
My question is, how long is a card at these temperatures likely to last? Can I expect to get a few weeks out of it until Nvidias 900 series potentially arrives, or should I order some actual VRAM pads to fix my mistake?
By the way, what prompted this at first was the VRM portion of the board getting uncomfortably/painfully hot during memtest86 running. Does anybody know if it is normal for memtest86 to to stress/heat the gpu in this way? It became far hotter then it was when idling on desktop.
Thanks!
Attempting to fix extremely hot VRM temps (-->125C) on my decrepit HD5870 I popped the heat sink off and put some thermal paste on.. everything.
This seems to have fixed the VRM issue, but now GPU temp #3 which I think is the VRAM is approaching 120C under stress testing. Probably because thermal paste was a bad idea.
http://imgur.com/zcDyBgE
(Ignore the fan speed. Its not being controlled, because my current cooling solution looks like this http://imgur.com/zXjStgz)
My question is, how long is a card at these temperatures likely to last? Can I expect to get a few weeks out of it until Nvidias 900 series potentially arrives, or should I order some actual VRAM pads to fix my mistake?
By the way, what prompted this at first was the VRM portion of the board getting uncomfortably/painfully hot during memtest86 running. Does anybody know if it is normal for memtest86 to to stress/heat the gpu in this way? It became far hotter then it was when idling on desktop.
Thanks!
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