So I have a Gigabyte Radeon r9 390 g1 gaming 8gb gpu which has always made a ton of noise while gaming and made my pc case really hot.
So after three years I decided to reapply the thermal paste. While doing so I noticed the thermal pads (strips really) were all broken and ripped, so I put them back as well as I was able, removed the dried thermal compound using rubbing alcohol and replaced it with new thermal compound (which was maybe a couple years old).
I booted my pc back up and it worked fine at first, getting 40-45C without the GPU fans spinning, so I decided to run a benchmark program. All of a sudden my gpu temperature went up really fast even when fans kicked in 100%. Then my pc shut off and rebooted itself, but the load screen had a big red bar on the left hand side and windows wouldn't boot anymore. Running a different gpu makes windows boot again so it's pretty clear I messed something up.
Fairly certain I just need to buy a new one but thought I'd ask some other people's opinion.
So after three years I decided to reapply the thermal paste. While doing so I noticed the thermal pads (strips really) were all broken and ripped, so I put them back as well as I was able, removed the dried thermal compound using rubbing alcohol and replaced it with new thermal compound (which was maybe a couple years old).
I booted my pc back up and it worked fine at first, getting 40-45C without the GPU fans spinning, so I decided to run a benchmark program. All of a sudden my gpu temperature went up really fast even when fans kicked in 100%. Then my pc shut off and rebooted itself, but the load screen had a big red bar on the left hand side and windows wouldn't boot anymore. Running a different gpu makes windows boot again so it's pretty clear I messed something up.
Fairly certain I just need to buy a new one but thought I'd ask some other people's opinion.