AMD Fury cleaning / HBM Thermal Paste

[eaks77]

Hello community!

I've had a AMD Fury for over a year now and have noticed that it's GPU temps are getting higher while under load. The fans and heatsink are covered in dust as well. I want to take this apart and clean it as I have with other cards... cautiously! I always get nervous when doing this kind of thing!

Because this card is a littler bit different, does anyone have any advice? Also, do the HBM's get new thermal paste like the GPU?

Thanks!

 

[Sinistercr0c]

My advice would be to buy one of those compressed air cans and blow the bejeezus out of your GPU. I wouldn't honestly go dismantling it....

 

[pete_101]

Yes the HBM needs paste....from my understanding they are attached to the sides of the GPU, so I'm assuming the paste from the top of the GPU die would also spread out and across the HBM too.

 

[ShadyHamster]

I would clean the cooler out first and see how the temps go after that.

If you do replace the thermal paste the HBM dies need their own little dab, they aren't directly connected to the core so any thermal paste you put on that won't spread out to the HBM, unless you put an excessive amount on.

 

[eaks77]

Thank you everyone for their responses. I'm deffinetly going to try blowing the dust out and see how it goes... but my inner OCD likes the idea of replacing the thermal paste.... but I also have a worry about doing it. Does anyone know if there's someone out there that refurbishes GPU's or does this kind of work?