Zotac GTX 760 AMP! Edition thermalthrottling

Ukulelex

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I built my computer about 2 years ago, and the side panels of the case felt warm on touch when I was gaming. Then I decided to benchmark my GPU, and got really worried because it gets around 82°C in full load. Once it gets to 82°C it starts to lower the power until it gets to 70%. I tried cleaning the dust out of it, but I get the same results. I tried to cap the power to 100% un MSI afterburner, but temperatures go up to 88°C, and I don't think those are safe temperatures at all. Is there anything I can do to fix the thermal throttling?? I thought about watercooling, but that's not a possibility because I live in Argentina, and we have blocked importations, and prices are REALLY high. Other than that I didn't have any trouble with this card.
My full specs:
CPU: Intel i5-4440 with stock cooler
Motherboard: gigabyte ga-Z97
RAM: 2x4gb kingston ddr3 1333MHz
GPU: Zotac GTX 760 AMP! Edition 2GB
 
Solution
If blowing dust out doesn't work, the only things you can really do is crank up the fans to maximum and try reapplying thermal paste to the GPU, the original thermal paste application may have been poor or has dried out at this point. If your case doesn't have great airflow, you may want to explore better cable management or getting additional fans, eg. a side panel fan blowing air onto the graphics card and see if that helps.
If blowing dust out doesn't work, the only things you can really do is crank up the fans to maximum and try reapplying thermal paste to the GPU, the original thermal paste application may have been poor or has dried out at this point. If your case doesn't have great airflow, you may want to explore better cable management or getting additional fans, eg. a side panel fan blowing air onto the graphics card and see if that helps.
 
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Ukulelex

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I don't think it's the case's airflow, because a friend has the same case and didn't have any problems, and my CPU temperatures are fine. I will try with the thermal paste and see what happens. Thank you for the quick answer :)