Ok so my temps have been a bit high for my pny 9800GT EE they idle at like 60C and ive seen it get up to 75C in furmark so I was really worried and tried to change my cooling in my case, nothing did anything so I wanted to put some new thermal paste in and see if that did anything. So after I finished unscrewing the screws I go to pull the heatsink off the card, It felt really stuck so I carefully pulled wondering what was so sticky, i was shocked, there was an extremely large amount of thermal paste, enough to paste up 2 cpus, just thick layers of paste, I figured that might be the problem so I took it all off and put some of my own paste on it thats basically a generic arctic silver and my temps went dropped down by 1-2C.. has anyone heard of anything like this? im not kidding you, a ton!! like 6 pee size drops worth.
Also am I safe to run these temps, right now my cpu is idle at 55C with fan speed at 45C, I turn the fan to 60% while gaming but I hate turning it up because its really loud. What max temp am I safe with? a safe temp that will let the card run as long as most.
Thanks
Also am I safe to run these temps, right now my cpu is idle at 55C with fan speed at 45C, I turn the fan to 60% while gaming but I hate turning it up because its really loud. What max temp am I safe with? a safe temp that will let the card run as long as most.
Thanks