- Jul 26, 2017
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I have a somewhat old ATI Radeon HD 6800 and I've had this issue where my GPU was over 50c when doing normal things (surfing the net, idling, etc.) and goes over 100c (115c was the highest) when I play somewhat graphic-intensive games (Guild Wars 2) even though I set the graphic settings to "Optimal". I changed the graphics to the lowest even, and the temperature still was around the 90-95c range.
Then we applied thermal paste on it, and the temperatures finally roamed around the 80-85c mark which is fine. 2 weeks after though, it was back to over 100c. The weird part is that the idle temperature is completely fine now (around 40-50c).
I'm kinda of worried because if this goes on, not only my GPU would die on me, but I'm fearful that the rest of my CPU components will to. Would re-applying thermal paste fix my problem, or is it time to buy a new GPU instead?
Then we applied thermal paste on it, and the temperatures finally roamed around the 80-85c mark which is fine. 2 weeks after though, it was back to over 100c. The weird part is that the idle temperature is completely fine now (around 40-50c).
I'm kinda of worried because if this goes on, not only my GPU would die on me, but I'm fearful that the rest of my CPU components will to. Would re-applying thermal paste fix my problem, or is it time to buy a new GPU instead?
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