- Dec 23, 2010
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Greetings!
I'll get right into it, my graphics card is a Nvidia GTX 580 and I've had it for about 3 years now. Until about 2 months ago, I never had any issues w/ cooling my graphics card by just letting the fan do it's own thing and regulate itself.
Recently, I've had to use MSI Afterburner to bring my fan speeds to 80% at all times when playing games to even be able to run fairly low spec games.
The thing that makes me think that it isn't just the card itself getting old is that the temperature will go to about 62C-64C when MSI Afterburner is saying that the card is only using about 30-40% of it's power.
As the title suggests, I'm wondering if it's time to reapply Thermal Paste because it seems like it's exactly what I need. The only thing about it is that I've never done anything like this. Even though it doesn't look difficult from the tutorials I've seen, I'd rather not do it unless I'm at least 80% sure it's gonna be what the card needs.
As far as the thermal paste itself goes, I'm thinking of getting Arctic Silver 5 if I do decide to do this, as it seems like a popular and affordable choice.
Any feedback is appreciated and I'm glad that I have this place to ask these questions, as each time I have, an answer has been found.
I'll get right into it, my graphics card is a Nvidia GTX 580 and I've had it for about 3 years now. Until about 2 months ago, I never had any issues w/ cooling my graphics card by just letting the fan do it's own thing and regulate itself.
Recently, I've had to use MSI Afterburner to bring my fan speeds to 80% at all times when playing games to even be able to run fairly low spec games.
The thing that makes me think that it isn't just the card itself getting old is that the temperature will go to about 62C-64C when MSI Afterburner is saying that the card is only using about 30-40% of it's power.
As the title suggests, I'm wondering if it's time to reapply Thermal Paste because it seems like it's exactly what I need. The only thing about it is that I've never done anything like this. Even though it doesn't look difficult from the tutorials I've seen, I'd rather not do it unless I'm at least 80% sure it's gonna be what the card needs.
As far as the thermal paste itself goes, I'm thinking of getting Arctic Silver 5 if I do decide to do this, as it seems like a popular and affordable choice.
Any feedback is appreciated and I'm glad that I have this place to ask these questions, as each time I have, an answer has been found.
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