erek
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so i have been bitcoin mining for awhile, and i decided to change the TIM on one of my 6970s to see how it would turn out...
i applied arctic silver ceramique to the GPU core (not a lot) and i noticed a few ram thermal pads were damaged, but left them go...
anyways...
the temps actually rose instead of decreased.... ~7-15C
i re-applied multiple different times with various methods...
i tried applying the thinnest layer i could using a business card and this was the worst scenario... it would seem fine idle at 45C, but make a massive jump to 69 and then to 101C
the middle route provided the result of 7-15C higher temps than stock, but i also replaced the thermal pads (all of the ram ones) with thermal paste.. had to make the globs a little bigger to make contact...
anyways... i ordered some MX-4 to hope that this problem will be fixed
seems like maybe there's a problem with contact? do you guys really think i should invest in new thermal pads for the ram? it's quite expensive... fujipoly 6.0 w/ for 1/4th sheet is $20
i applied arctic silver ceramique to the GPU core (not a lot) and i noticed a few ram thermal pads were damaged, but left them go...
anyways...
the temps actually rose instead of decreased.... ~7-15C
i re-applied multiple different times with various methods...
i tried applying the thinnest layer i could using a business card and this was the worst scenario... it would seem fine idle at 45C, but make a massive jump to 69 and then to 101C
the middle route provided the result of 7-15C higher temps than stock, but i also replaced the thermal pads (all of the ram ones) with thermal paste.. had to make the globs a little bigger to make contact...
anyways... i ordered some MX-4 to hope that this problem will be fixed
seems like maybe there's a problem with contact? do you guys really think i should invest in new thermal pads for the ram? it's quite expensive... fujipoly 6.0 w/ for 1/4th sheet is $20