The inside of a msi 1080, and MSI's glob of thermal paste

[Greg Scott Calderon]

The inside of a msi 1080, and MSI's glob of thermal paste

 

[Chuck Gunter]

I think re application was best here lmao.

 

[Ben Stopp]

There's always way too much lol

 

[Durvelle Greene]

I always repaste my GPUs

Manufacturers always skimp on that ish

 

[David Quinn]

Id rather have too much over a baked card

 

[Pierce Hester]

this is too little right?

 

[Mitchell Simmons]

Too much or too little?

 

[Ben Stopp]

Too much in my opinion, it will be fine but all the compound around the edges will dry up like concrete and insulate the edge, I always pull a new gpu apart, clean it all off and just ad a sliver to the shiny part and temps drop by 2-3 degrees c at least but just my experience...

 

[Hans Andersen]

too much.

 

[Hans Andersen]

I repaste them too. Usually they have too much and it's put on kinda sloppy

 

[Dalon Vura]

I always take apart my video cards and reapply the thermal paste

 

[Matt Magill]

i always repaste my gpu lol

 

[Oskar Martin]

extra thermal compound won't actually hurt your performance though....

 

[Paul Bellware]

It's funny. I have seen a few posts in these groups by people asking if they should redo their TIM on their new GPUs and the majority always says "OMG Y U DO THAT" "U R GOING TO RUIN A BRAND NEW CARD" " IF IT AIN'T BROKE DON'T FIX IT" And I laugh at the ignorance.

 

[Ian Hughes]

Needs to be thick and gooey for a GPU to make proper contact, CPU thermal paste is not actually meant for GPU's

 

[Greg Scott Calderon]

I actually have a spare AIO in the closet so i spent $30 for the nzxt g12 bracket

Gonna set it up on this 1080 and see how it is

 

[David Yanelli]

All you people saying it's too much need to do some research. Especially when it comes to gpu's you can't have too much (within reason of course)

 

[Austin Westfall]

wait you need thermal paste for the GPU?

 

[Jordan Harris]

did you remove the heat sink while it was hot?

 

[Greg Scott Calderon]

Ben Stopp this is the idle temp of the card before attaching the g12