Great video. I did this same procedure to a friend's discarded HD 6870 about a year ago - it made a world of difference. (He gave me this card for free, believing it no longer worked.) In this card's case, the fan had also died - so I took the ghetto-tastic route of zip-tying a high-rpm 80mm fan to the plastic case. Noisy - but effective. Worked like a charm! It went from making horrible grinding noises (bad fan bearings), terrible performance, and dangerous temps (90+) to running like new. I saw temperature drops of over 30 degrees with the same load, and since the card no longer had to throttle just to keep from melting, my FPS jumped quite a lot as well. These days I'm running a newer card, but I still keep the little Frankenstein around to remind me what a difference a little human intervention and maintenance can make.
My graphics card has overheating problems. It runs over 90° in normal circumstances, and regularly my computer screen will go black and the GPU fan starts to blow full throttle. I've been doing some research on how to fix that problem and I found your video. As it happens, my GPU is a 4 year old NVidia GTX580, the exact same featured in this video. This is the perfect guide I was looking for. Now I have to gather the supplies I need for the operation... wish me luck.
Thank you! I had an old GTX580 that kept overheating and this was the exact problem. After taking it apart and cleaning, re-applying the thermal paste, it's working just like new :)
+Anthony Starfield Even better, instead of smoking a cigarette. Smoke crystal meth! You'll die faster, whch is why you smoke cigarettes anyways but refuse to admit it.
Confirming. My Second hand R9 280X ASUS had same issue-old-dried thermal compound and I fixed it same way and temps before and after were exactly the same. Mmmm it even went to 92C once....
Awesome video. I remember having to do this a few years ago with my old 9800GTX. After I opened it up the thermal compound was pretty much a little bit of powder, there was hardly anything there which makes me wonder how much thermal compound XFX applied in the first place!
Jay i just did this 2 days ago & replaced my thermal paste with the Gelid GC Extreme & im already down 6 degrees, thanks & i have the same replica card & also cleaned the heatsink from the side next to the fan
81 Degrees Celsius at 75% Fan Speed before fixing, and 74 Degrees Celsius at 50% Fan Speed after fixing isn't exactly a huge difference. Hardly seems worth the effort.
Extremely quieter fans and 7°C cooler? That is impressive for just changing that... you could also undervolt your gpu and underclock it to reduce it more
this video saved my gtx 770 I was seeing 96°c before at 100% fan speed no overclock. after cleaning and new thermal paste 70° at 65% fan speed and overclocked. thanks jay
In the long run, you can keep your gpu for longer and not have to try different methods to revive it, or searching to buy a new one for an extended period, so it kind of saves time
When I apply thermal paste I do the original method "the blob," basically place a blob in the middle and press gpu back down. It will create a smooth surface and spread out evenly.
My EVGA GTX 660TI got to 96c... I took the cooler of and what was under there was horror, a part of the gpu wasn't covered with termal paste, only like a part of the gpu.. Now it runs at 77c after doing this =p
Velocity I know that it was still pretty hot.. this was with fresh thermal paste though. Now it runs at around ~73 (But not right now, because it is dusty inside my pc.. xD )
No mention of the retaining CLIP found on most motherboards?Love some of these videos. Especially liked the GPU excess paste video, as I had expected that much paste to have an insulating effect and increase temperature relative to a more typical, thin spread.
Something that was skipped is cleaning out the dust from fan and heatsink. You have to disassemble a little more and clean out the cooling fins and carefully blowing out the fan.
***** Im sure he just wanted to make a tutorial on how you might be able to fix a overheating graphics card and that was the oldest hottest running card he had. Even though 81c is within acceptable limits i wouldn't call it ideal.
Vox Nihili Well, I've never seen a graphics card throttle or crash when it was around 80 degrees Celsius. Where I work, we had a card today, that hit 84 degrees celcius. Can't remember which one it was. A couple of weeks ago we have a GTX 780 SLI setup where the cards would max out at a 100 degrees Celsius. When it hits 90+, I get worried, but below that I'd not be worried at all. I don't even know what my own GTX 690 runs at. Hmmm, I should check.
***** Neither have I but thats not the point. If you worry about longevity a card that never gets above 70c is generally going to last quite a bit longer than a card that runs at above 80c every time you put it under load. Not to mention artifacting which is much more likely to occur at those higher temps.
+ϟ STORM ϟ All the new graphics cards, does run cooler. We've entered into a new age of electronics with extremely small manufacturing processes. This means that components will require less power and thus produce less heat. Furthermore, manufacturers are getting better at optimizing their electronics - giving you more "bang for the buck".
My GTX 770 FTW is a heat monster. I can't install anything above or below without it heating up more. I only see two options, either I install a fan on the case lid next to the GPU, or I get water blocks and do liquid cooling all around, which is not in my budget...
hey sir.... can i ask something? everytime i play game on my desktop my monitor suddenly turn black...but i can hear my game still running even if i switch it to the builtin video card still the same... all i can do is to force restart and its ok again... thanks in advance sir moosey
Hi moosey, changed termal paste and pads. However prettymuch the same temp. As my card is factory overclocked, do you think underclocking the card may prevent overheat?
i Have the same problem like Chirs (NVIDIA Geforce GT 640) And my temps are going Extremly high while im in game it goes around 90-100 C ive added a bigger fan ,it was fine for a month then the prob appeared again. what should i do . Btw my pc is 2 years old i dont think that the card is burned yet.
If you're gonna go that far then you might as well buy an aftermarket cooler. Mine cost £30 and reduced my temps from 85c to 60c. Only big graphic intensive games ever go past 60c and it's rare of them to touch 70c.
+shadow336k Complete Bullshit. Fans don't add performance. But what do you expect of someone who's called "SIME_LP" and has a minceraft profile picture, lol.
Actually some video cards have a temp limit, where it will throttle, if it hits that temperature, so its not bullshit to cool your cards, but that means his card must have ran over 84c or something equivalent to that number.
I am just watching this in 2020. However, tips that I would give first are. If your computer is shutting down, firstly do these steps. 1) Check the thermal paste and CPU cooler and re apply that first 2) If it still shuts down, if you have an onboard graphics card. Remove your graphics card and then attach to the onboard GPU. 3) If you have no problem with the onboard GPU, then of course start following this video. If you do have a problem even with the onboard GPU, then potentially it is near the death of your CPU. I never over clock my PC's so my PC's last for decades, however, one of my PC's is now in trouble, hence having to google and youtube information. I was actually keeping an eye on the CPU temps and they were not over heating, when it shut down. I for one are not looking forward to taking the GPU apart, my first time of doing so, and I will reference this video again when I come to tear it down.
Good video, man. It's scary as shit to do this the first time. Before I did this on my both my 290x cards, I took apart all the damn cards I had laying around, and replaced all the pads/ paste. I took my sweet time on a 280x, since it was the closest thing to a 290x I had on hand. After doing it a couple times, I felt confident enough to risk destroying two $500+ cards.
I would love to,if u do a video about lowering the temperature of the video card. Fan curve undervolting etc. I've seen a lot of ur video and they are pretty nice,but i havent seen a video in big details about fan curve and undervolting. Keep the good job!
my top gpu is 20% hotter running @ 84 and the second one running @ 64 I think I definitely need to add thermal paste on the first one asap! thanks jay!
Thank you so much!!My graphics card temperature is now 65 because i put thermal paste on GPU..Without thermal paste my graphics card temperature is 101..then gpu fan was off...
another tip is to check the wattage recommendation on your psu based on the gpu's power requirement. I was running under and upreaded my psu and dropped 10 degrees!
I got one of those DataVacs and that thing is amazing. I clean my computer weekly or bi-weekly and it still blows chunks of dust out the the graphics card. They are a bit pricey but will eventually pay for themselves with the savings you get from not buying canned air.
Following the steps in the video got my EVGA GTX 660 SC load temps from 90c@70% fan speed to 75c@45% fan speed. In this video though he doesn't take all the necessary precautions, make sure to hold the GPU fan when using compressing air to remove the dust cause it can fuck up your bearings.
yeah...3 basic things and the most effective to do is clean your fan from dirt,put new thermal paste and if you want beter temps then put your fan speed on higher speed,my GPU is GTX650 and when im idling its 33 C,when gaming (after OC I did) its 72-74 deagrease,without OC its 66-68 and its not that new,I have this card for a year and a half and every month im cleaning it and I never got more then 74 degrease and I got my max OC
Great guide. I still have a gtx 980 wich suddenly runs at 94 degree (YES!)after 4 months usage. Will send it to manufacturer still have warranty. But i have tried literally everything. It is weird tho why the cards start act like that.
I dont know if you'll remember @jayztwocents but were your gpu fans topping out? My rx580 (msi armor oc 8gb) can no longer handle too many particles on screen at once, smoke, fire etc, fans top out, gpu usage hit 102% at one point temps dont actually go over 70odds either, driving me nuts. System has crashed a couple of times, as soon as i rotate 180degrees away from effect/s fans slow down again but theyre definitely alot more sensitive! Bought the card used a couple of years ago and it worked fine intil a few weeks ago. Do you think this is a hardware issue more than a servicing issue? Thanks.
You can honestly use any method you want on the CPU, as long as you don't apply too much. The only one I would honestly advise against is making a very flat plane across the entire CPU (as this can create air pockets when the heatsink is applied), but otherwise a dot or a line, four lines, or eight won't make a difference. As long as it's on there and coats it well, you'll be fine.
Way too relevant. I recently had someone fix my gpu. An rtx 2080. The artifacts were gone but when i tested it with unigine superposition the score was low and the temp was at 85c. I opened up my gpu and realized he put the wrong thermal pad underneath the heat sink it looked like a mini sponge. I applied thermal compound myself and the temp was reduced by 30c and my framrate and score doubled. Thank you for the video 😃
GPU temp tend to around 46-48c when not playing games, but when playing games like skyrim or Dragon Dogama or high and low end games, temp tend to be around 66c but however when i play witcher 3 and art evolve temp tend to jump up to 82c.
What I usually do is immediately upon getting a new graphics card (or CPU), I replace their thermal paste with mine (I have been using Arctic MX-4 lately) since the aftermarket higher end TIMs tend to be better.
Is it just me or did Jay forget to mention that to remove a PCIe graphics card you have to pull the locking clip towards the CPU ? (Or on some boards you have to slide a lock clip towards the back of the slot) If you don't do that you either won't succeed in taking out the card or I think you might damage the PCIe socket...
Another fix if your ain Quarantine and cant buy thermal paste or thermal pads, download MSI afterburner and crank that fan speed too 100%. Now my GPU at youtube at firefox from 71c now 69c should be able to game too without crashing vid card
I don't remember any time when my gpu was above 50C at full load.... It's sapphire amd r9 280x vaporx trix edition.. I think it's because of the vaporx cooling and 3 fans
I actually miss this style of UA-cam videos, the narrator is behind the scenes and the footage speaks for itself.... today we have one guy, a mic, some rgb background, and the focus is the guy talking (rinse repeat)
GPUs need way more than a CPU. I've used the CPU method on the exact same EVGA 580 and it wasn't nearly enough. I opened it back up and had to throw on 3x for a good even spread. Temps dropped too after putting more on. Jay and EK have it right on this one.
I've been running an NVIDIA GTX760 that's been crashing every time I tried playing anything and I literally tried every fix from A-Z from cleaning dust to reinstalling stable drivers to underclocking. I was borderline about to replace my graphics card, but thanks to this video I don't have to. thank you so much for finally granting me a fucking solution. thank you thank you thank you
What are those blue things in there? Arctic Pads? might have veen nice to mention that... Along with info about noting original pad thickness in mm. Didn't even mention the God Mod Thermal Conductive Viscous Gel like K5 Pro! OR Padding the Backplate!
yeah I remember having a pc running -10c with a phatham pump. my spelling maybe wrong. I have worked out that you can do the same thing with gpu. the space you use is very little.
Good to know jay, I bought a gigabyte 2070 windforce x2 one year ago refurbished for 330 and was thinking I'll just buy a nice new 3080 when it come out in a few weeks for the low low price of 500... "Fast forward a year" so any way my 2070 is stupid hot and I think I need to do this cuz my frame rate on far cry 5 goes from 60 to 5 but then again it only started doing tht 2 days ago then I accidentally elbowed the frame in my open air case smh so idk we'll see
Getting like 82c on my asus gtx 1060 turbo edition..... it’s a blower type but 82 is just too hot so I’m gonna put some arctic 5 on that b and some new fans in my case and call it a day. 2 day shipping so I’ll comment on how things went!
Can't believe i never thought that the gpu would also need thermal refreshing. Thank you for sharing. Gonna screw and blow my old gpu first, cause you know what they say: "On an old bike you learn how the ride".
my VTX3D HD 7870 is now starting to do this its saying 70C idle fan at 37% its really heating up my PC inside so taken the side cover off to let the heat out. card might be dying. tried putting new past on its not made any change.
I have to thank you for this video. i used Grizzlies Krynoaut thermal paste. best thing i ever did to my Old R9 290. i had to under clock it to 500MHZ so it doesn't thermal throttle. i used this paste , and on Base clock (977mhz) it only goes up to 76C , i over clocked it to 1000Mhz , and still only runs 79C on Average. Will you make a Video of stock thermal paste vs 5 different aftermarket Thermal paste please? Include Grizzlies Kryonaut please :)
Great video. I did this same procedure to a friend's discarded HD 6870 about a year ago - it made a world of difference. (He gave me this card for free, believing it no longer worked.) In this card's case, the fan had also died - so I took the ghetto-tastic route of zip-tying a high-rpm 80mm fan to the plastic case. Noisy - but effective. Worked like a charm! It went from making horrible grinding noises (bad fan bearings), terrible performance, and dangerous temps (90+) to running like new. I saw temperature drops of over 30 degrees with the same load, and since the card no longer had to throttle just to keep from melting, my FPS jumped quite a lot as well. These days I'm running a newer card, but I still keep the little Frankenstein around to remind me what a difference a little human intervention and maintenance can make.
6 years later. Still relevant.
Mr GMS 1320
The guide or the youtuber?
@@dizdizx3917 Yes
@@dizdizx3917 That's not very nice
7 years
@@ARen0_ almost
Great video! Just did this to my gpu, was getting 60C idle and about 95+ gaming.
Now temp are 35-40C idle and 70-80C gaming!
Thanks Jayztwocents!
your temps should never be 35-40 when idle 30c max even with worse case and air flow
What about replacing the thermal 'PADS'?
My graphics card has overheating problems. It runs over 90° in normal circumstances, and regularly my computer screen will go black and the GPU fan starts to blow full throttle. I've been doing some research on how to fix that problem and I found your video. As it happens, my GPU is a 4 year old NVidia GTX580, the exact same featured in this video. This is the perfect guide I was looking for. Now I have to gather the supplies I need for the operation... wish me luck.
So how did it went?
+lnstagib- DonTry (David) His house blew up, saw it on the news
Savage No it didn't. Haven't found time for the procedure yet.
ive got the same gtx 580
I'm having the exact same problem with the exact same video card. Did this end up working? I just ordered the supplies.
8 years later and this video is still a lifesaver.
whos here 2019😅
Yep
Yee
Ya hahaha
yeep
I'm here in 2019 with a brand new 2080ti ruining at 82°c 😞
I like these old vids. It fun to see how far jay has come
3:45 - essence of the whole video.
Thank you! I had an old GTX580 that kept overheating and this was the exact problem. After taking it apart and cleaning, re-applying the thermal paste, it's working just like new :)
Go outside to smoke your cigs and your computers cooling system will thank you for it.
Even better, give up cigarettes!
Instead of smoking a cigarette, for a nice walk.
+Anthony Starfield THE MORE YOU KNOW
+Anthony Starfield Even better, instead of smoking a cigarette. Smoke crystal meth! You'll die faster, whch is why you smoke cigarettes anyways but refuse to admit it.
@@Anthony_in_Bloomington_Indiana even betyter instead of walking just smoke a cig
@@nicktopolski9672 Even better smoke a spliff
Hey Jay. Just wanted to thank you for this video as it helped me fix my GPU. Went from 78°C at 83% power to 67°C at 99%.
Confirming.
My Second hand R9 280X ASUS had same issue-old-dried thermal compound and I fixed it same way and temps before and after were exactly the same. Mmmm it even went to 92C once....
0:49 you actually hold the spray upside down and spray fluid on the graphics card and you see a little drop going down on the right.
Biggest mistake in buying a 660 with a single fan exhaust heatsink... after a year of use I open it up to find it literally full of dust...
Gotohellcadz you're supposed to clean it more than once a year...
Awesome video. I remember having to do this a few years ago with my old 9800GTX. After I opened it up the thermal compound was pretty much a little bit of powder, there was hardly anything there which makes me wonder how much thermal compound XFX applied in the first place!
lol, my R7 250 runs at 95+ degrees.
Thats perfectly normal. You should keep playing games.
Benny Kolesnikov Are you sure? It even reaches above 100 sometimes...
Kris Kieronski Youre actally fine, it thermal thottles itself to increase prefromance!
Benny Kolesnikov No, to stop any damage.
no makr it fsr
Watching this in 2020 ROFL this channel gone a long way good job jay.
my gpu temp are around 59-65c while gaming and 27c idle
LuxKadafi I envy you.
***** nice!
***** Mine's max is 55, watercooled.
my max temps are 62c
+LuxKadafi Mine runs at 38c at load and 25c at idle overclocked
Jay i just did this 2 days ago & replaced my thermal paste with the Gelid GC Extreme & im already down 6 degrees, thanks & i have the same replica card & also cleaned the heatsink from the side next to the fan
Thermal pads??
Yeah, thermal pads. Almost all laptops with a dedicated GPUs have em
Louisarius Trollerlol I know, just not showing what was doing with them
He means: Why didn't Jay show video of how/where/why/where to unstall tgrm. They just SHOW UP indide (blue,..) as he's reassembling!
no big philosophy with this one...just put the new ones where the old ones were
EightSeven6 but how did he get all of the old thermal pad that was stuck on the components?
Damn its awfully refreshing to see in 2021 that Jay made videos like these.
Isn't it harmful to spray out that frost from the canned air on your parts?
No? It's compressed air you doofus.
This is cute how far you've come Jay. Still 10/10 content
81 Degrees Celsius at 75% Fan Speed before fixing, and 74 Degrees Celsius at 50% Fan Speed after fixing isn't exactly a huge difference. Hardly seems worth the effort.
Extremely quieter fans and 7°C cooler? That is impressive for just changing that... you could also undervolt your gpu and underclock it to reduce it more
سمط جارتي خير من هذا
Depends on the card, i have had cards that sounded like a jet engine after 60% or so fan speed.
this video saved my gtx 770 I was seeing 96°c before at 100% fan speed no overclock. after cleaning and new thermal paste 70° at 65% fan speed and overclocked. thanks jay
well, you might not have saved time, but you did save money.
In the long run, you can keep your gpu for longer and not have to try different methods to revive it, or searching to buy a new one for an extended period, so it kind of saves time
When I apply thermal paste I do the original method "the blob," basically place a blob in the middle and press gpu back down. It will create a smooth surface and spread out evenly.
My EVGA GTX 660TI got to 96c...
I took the cooler of and what was under there was horror, a part of the gpu wasn't covered with termal paste, only like a part of the gpu.. Now it runs at 77c after doing this =p
Thats still pretty hot for a 660ti my 660ti was a ref cooler and overvolted and OCed it ran at 75C
Velocity I know that it was still pretty hot.. this was with fresh thermal paste though. Now it runs at around ~73 (But not right now, because it is dusty inside my pc.. xD )
it is mormal.My asus nvidia 750 ti goes to 71-74.And my old Nvidia 9500gt would to whopping 117 degrees and around.
Salman Shaikh 117c.... that doesn't sound right though.. xD
yep it was that only xD
you forgot about installing new thermal pads and make sure they are right thickness
My rx 580 4gb msi armor is running at 85c on load and like 35-40 idle. ive only had it for like 4 months. anyone have any reccomendations!?!??!
No mention of the retaining CLIP found on most motherboards?Love some of these videos. Especially liked the GPU excess paste video, as I had expected that much paste to have an insulating effect and increase temperature relative to a more typical, thin spread.
this video should be censored so much blowing...
No likes or comments lame ass lol
i did laugh xD
Something that was skipped is cleaning out the dust from fan and heatsink. You have to disassemble a little more and clean out the cooling fins and carefully blowing out the fan.
You do realize that 81 degrees is fine for a GPU, right? It's well within the boundaries of which it can operate. If it was a CPU on the other hand...
***** Im sure he just wanted to make a tutorial on how you might be able to fix a overheating graphics card and that was the oldest hottest running card he had. Even though 81c is within acceptable limits i wouldn't call it ideal.
Vox Nihili Well, I've never seen a graphics card throttle or crash when it was around 80 degrees Celsius. Where I work, we had a card today, that hit 84 degrees celcius. Can't remember which one it was. A couple of weeks ago we have a GTX 780 SLI setup where the cards would max out at a 100 degrees Celsius. When it hits 90+, I get worried, but below that I'd not be worried at all. I don't even know what my own GTX 690 runs at. Hmmm, I should check.
***** Neither have I but thats not the point. If you worry about longevity a card that never gets above 70c is generally going to last quite a bit longer than a card that runs at above 80c every time you put it under load. Not to mention artifacting which is much more likely to occur at those higher temps.
+ϟ STORM ϟ All the new graphics cards, does run cooler. We've entered into a new age of electronics with extremely small manufacturing processes. This means that components will require less power and thus produce less heat. Furthermore, manufacturers are getting better at optimizing their electronics - giving you more "bang for the buck".
what? my pc turns off at 70C
Awesome video man. Thought my gpu running at 50 C on ultra Battlefield 3 was bad, but I am at ease now. Keep up the good work man!
who's here in 2020😅😅
Me need to repair overheating GPU
@@powerfulshammy Me. I've my rx580 at 90 degrees on 100% in warzone.
My GTX 770 FTW is a heat monster. I can't install anything above or below without it heating up more. I only see two options, either I install a fan on the case lid next to the GPU, or I get water blocks and do liquid cooling all around, which is not in my budget...
hey Jayz, what program do you use to check temp and fan speed
Thanks moosey
hey sir.... can i ask something? everytime i play game on my desktop my monitor suddenly turn black...but i can hear my game still running even if i switch it to the builtin video card still the same... all i can do is to force restart and its ok again... thanks in advance sir moosey
Hi moosey, changed termal paste and pads. However prettymuch the same temp. As my card is factory overclocked, do you think underclocking the card may prevent overheat?
moosey moosingtonthethird Temps go up to 90 celsius while 75%fan speed in some game modes. Video card is zotac geforce gtx560 ti.
i Have the same problem like Chirs (NVIDIA Geforce GT 640) And my temps are going Extremly high while im in game it goes around 90-100 C ive added a bigger fan ,it was fine for a month then the prob appeared again. what should i do .
Btw my pc is 2 years old i dont think that the card is burned yet.
If you're gonna go that far then you might as well buy an aftermarket cooler. Mine cost £30 and reduced my temps from 85c to 60c. Only big graphic intensive games ever go past 60c and it's rare of them to touch 70c.
A Friend has a Passive cooled GPU and i told him to put a fan there ... He now has 3x the Performance lol
+SIME_LP Bullshit.
+shadow336k Complete Bullshit. Fans don't add performance. But what do you expect of someone who's called "SIME_LP" and has a minceraft profile picture, lol.
Actually some video cards have a temp limit, where it will throttle, if it hits that temperature, so its not bullshit to cool your cards, but that means his card must have ran over 84c or something equivalent to that number.
Just 7 years ago but this video looking so retro. The music helped too LOL
Lol my gpu is hitting 97C in far cry 3
what my pc hits 70 and shutsdown
4 years later.... have you tried overclocking its rgb?
I am just watching this in 2020. However, tips that I would give first are. If your computer is shutting down, firstly do these steps. 1) Check the thermal paste and CPU cooler and re apply that first 2) If it still shuts down, if you have an onboard graphics card. Remove your graphics card and then attach to the onboard GPU. 3) If you have no problem with the onboard GPU, then of course start following this video. If you do have a problem even with the onboard GPU, then potentially it is near the death of your CPU. I never over clock my PC's so my PC's last for decades, however, one of my PC's is now in trouble, hence having to google and youtube information. I was actually keeping an eye on the CPU temps and they were not over heating, when it shut down. I for one are not looking forward to taking the GPU apart, my first time of doing so, and I will reference this video again when I come to tear it down.
Good video, man. It's scary as shit to do this the first time. Before I did this on my both my 290x cards, I took apart all the damn cards I had laying around, and replaced all the pads/ paste. I took my sweet time on a 280x, since it was the closest thing to a 290x I had on hand. After doing it a couple times, I felt confident enough to risk destroying two $500+ cards.
I would love to,if u do a video about lowering the temperature of the video card. Fan curve undervolting etc. I've seen a lot of ur video and they are pretty nice,but i havent seen a video in big details about fan curve and undervolting. Keep the good job!
omg the production quality has definitely improved. Still very informative
2018 still relevant. Thanks Jay
Which software did you use to measure the temperature of the GPU in game? Futhermore, I love your videos! Very educational and fun to watch.
elmardv CPUID HWMonitor is excellent for all temps.
This looks so easy. I'm totally going for that thermal paste upgrade tomorrow!
my top gpu is 20% hotter running @ 84 and the second one running @ 64 I think I definitely need to add thermal paste on the first one asap! thanks jay!
Isn't that due to the placement of the cards rather than the paste?
+pcblah gpu 1-in first slot second at 4th slot thats asus rampage v extreme way for sli
+Jorge Vazquez try switching both gpus.
Thank you so much!!My graphics card temperature is now 65 because i put thermal paste on GPU..Without thermal paste my graphics card temperature is 101..then gpu fan was off...
your newer vids are so much better js. much love jz2cents
another tip is to check the wattage recommendation on your psu based on the gpu's power requirement. I was running under and upreaded my psu and dropped 10 degrees!
I got one of those DataVacs and that thing is amazing. I clean my computer weekly or bi-weekly and it still blows chunks of dust out the the graphics card. They are a bit pricey but will eventually pay for themselves with the savings you get from not buying canned air.
Following the steps in the video got my EVGA GTX 660 SC load temps from 90c@70% fan speed to 75c@45% fan speed. In this video though he doesn't take all the necessary precautions, make sure to hold the GPU fan when using compressing air to remove the dust cause it can fuck up your bearings.
yeah...3 basic things and the most effective to do is clean your fan from dirt,put new thermal paste and if you want beter temps then put your fan speed on higher speed,my GPU is GTX650 and when im idling its 33 C,when gaming (after OC I did) its 72-74 deagrease,without OC its 66-68 and its not that new,I have this card for a year and a half and every month im cleaning it and I never got more then 74 degrease and I got my max OC
cool vaterra twin hammers.... it was a losi, but vaterra bought the design. I have the prototype brushless version Losi presented
Wow. alright. Glad I stumbled upon this. Wonder if Jay could make an updated guide
Great guide. I still have a gtx 980 wich suddenly runs at 94 degree (YES!)after 4 months usage. Will send it to manufacturer still have warranty. But i have tried literally everything. It is weird tho why the cards start act like that.
I dont know if you'll remember @jayztwocents but were your gpu fans topping out? My rx580 (msi armor oc 8gb) can no longer handle too many particles on screen at once, smoke, fire etc, fans top out, gpu usage hit 102% at one point temps dont actually go over 70odds either, driving me nuts. System has crashed a couple of times, as soon as i rotate 180degrees away from effect/s fans slow down again but theyre definitely alot more sensitive! Bought the card used a couple of years ago and it worked fine intil a few weeks ago. Do you think this is a hardware issue more than a servicing issue? Thanks.
You can honestly use any method you want on the CPU, as long as you don't apply too much. The only one I would honestly advise against is making a very flat plane across the entire CPU (as this can create air pockets when the heatsink is applied), but otherwise a dot or a line, four lines, or eight won't make a difference. As long as it's on there and coats it well, you'll be fine.
Way too relevant. I recently had someone fix my gpu. An rtx 2080. The artifacts were gone but when i tested it with unigine superposition the score was low and the temp was at 85c. I opened up my gpu and realized he put the wrong thermal pad underneath the heat sink it looked like a mini sponge. I applied thermal compound myself and the temp was reduced by 30c and my framrate and score doubled. Thank you for the video 😃
7 years later.... STILL RELEVENT
Yo cool video man! Better editing than you have now! Jk. Was looking up gpu thermal paste replacement and this popped up. Still got that 580?
Love your guides. No nonsense, well explained.
GPU temp tend to around 46-48c when not playing games, but when playing games like skyrim or Dragon Dogama or high and low end games, temp tend to be around 66c but however when i play witcher 3 and art evolve temp tend to jump up to 82c.
Hello again. Wasn't expecting to see you here.
thank dude it was nice to see someone do a video on this . can you use the copper thermal pads on hot running video cards like HD 4870x 2
What I usually do is immediately upon getting a new graphics card (or CPU), I replace their thermal paste with mine (I have been using Arctic MX-4 lately) since the aftermarket higher end TIMs tend to be better.
Is it just me or did Jay forget to mention that to remove a PCIe graphics card you have to pull the locking clip towards the CPU ? (Or on some boards you have to slide a lock clip towards the back of the slot) If you don't do that you either won't succeed in taking out the card or I think you might damage the PCIe socket...
ok have updated amd drivers and seems its 34c so hopefully all good. fan is on 35.
Jay, this is a great video on, know how. Thank you. Now I shall give this a go. Awesome video. We need more like these.
2021. 8 years later. Still relevant.
Another fix if your ain Quarantine and cant buy thermal paste or thermal pads, download MSI afterburner and crank that fan speed too 100%. Now my GPU at youtube at firefox from 71c now 69c should be able to game too without crashing vid card
i have done all this steps of thermal pasting and cleaning on my msi gtx 960.. but still giving 81 degree celcius temperature. why??
I don't remember any time when my gpu was above 50C at full load.... It's sapphire amd r9 280x vaporx trix edition.. I think it's because of the vaporx cooling and 3 fans
Thanks I have Rx 480 And this solution Worked
I actually miss this style of UA-cam videos, the narrator is behind the scenes and the footage speaks for itself.... today we have one guy, a mic, some rgb background, and the focus is the guy talking (rinse repeat)
This video was a life saver, by far the best - thank you so much!
I prefer the updated video! Thanks everybody for bitching about how much paste he was using! :D
GPUs need way more than a CPU. I've used the CPU method on the exact same EVGA 580 and it wasn't nearly enough. I opened it back up and had to throw on 3x for a good even spread. Temps dropped too after putting more on. Jay and EK have it right on this one.
I've been running an NVIDIA GTX760 that's been crashing every time I tried playing anything and I literally tried every fix from A-Z from cleaning dust to reinstalling stable drivers to underclocking. I was borderline about to replace my graphics card, but thanks to this video I don't have to. thank you so much for finally granting me a fucking solution. thank you thank you thank you
What are those blue things in there? Arctic Pads? might have veen nice to mention that... Along with info about noting original pad thickness in mm. Didn't even mention the God Mod Thermal Conductive Viscous Gel like K5 Pro! OR Padding the Backplate!
Going to have to try this. Can't afford a new card at the moment.
Jayz you really made me realize that i need to stop worrying about building pc's
amd 5870.... recommend the BEST paste (price not an issue)
If price is not an issue. Buy a new graphics card.
Arctic Silver 5 is grate paste.
thx mate this video really helped my problem i will fix my gpu now
had no idea what was going wrong
Did it fix the problem?
Oh yeah!!! Ahhh, Good ol' times in Jay's streams :)
Can we get an updated video of this even though nothing has changed just look better
Thank you. My GPU is running at a stable 60C now. : )
yeah I remember having a pc running -10c with a phatham pump. my spelling maybe wrong. I have worked out that you can do the same thing with gpu. the space you use is very little.
you shouldve put the fan speed to 75% afterwards for an apples to apples comparison of the temp drop.
Good to know jay, I bought a gigabyte 2070 windforce x2 one year ago refurbished for 330 and was thinking I'll just buy a nice new 3080 when it come out in a few weeks for the low low price of 500... "Fast forward a year" so any way my 2070 is stupid hot and I think I need to do this cuz my frame rate on far cry 5 goes from 60 to 5 but then again it only started doing tht 2 days ago then I accidentally elbowed the frame in my open air case smh so idk we'll see
I have a question, how thin should the new thermal pads be, does it matter? There are 0.5,1,2,3,4 mm pads where I'm gonna buy them from. Which one?
Getting like 82c on my asus gtx 1060 turbo edition..... it’s a blower type but 82 is just too hot so I’m gonna put some arctic 5 on that b and some new fans in my case and call it a day. 2 day shipping so I’ll comment on how things went!
Hey Jay, as always a very clear video
I was like 2 seconds away from buying a new card. I'll try this first for sure.
+Apoxiosis did u end up buying a new or not?
Elljoda yes, but my card was just faulty. It was overheating since day 1.
Can't believe i never thought that the gpu would also need thermal refreshing. Thank you for sharing. Gonna screw and blow my old gpu first, cause you know what they say: "On an old bike you learn how the ride".
my VTX3D HD 7870 is now starting to do this its saying 70C idle fan at 37% its really heating up my PC inside so taken the side cover off to let the heat out.
card might be dying.
tried putting new past on its not made any change.
I have to thank you for this video. i used Grizzlies Krynoaut thermal paste. best thing i ever did to my Old R9 290. i had to under clock it to 500MHZ so it doesn't thermal throttle. i used this paste , and on Base clock (977mhz) it only goes up to 76C , i over clocked it to 1000Mhz , and still only runs 79C on Average. Will you make a Video of stock thermal paste vs 5 different aftermarket Thermal paste please? Include Grizzlies Kryonaut please :)