That TIM was dried out. Is the card still working?
My advise was given because I was thinking the card didn't have a warranty left and I'm a former Folding Editor on another site and have seen pretty much everything, even on my own GPU's. I use Artic MX-4 on my cards and when I run out I...
It's 2017, right? The GTX 1060 and the GTX 980Ti also have 6GB of memory. I have a 980 Ti and it does fine with current games but I only have a 1080P monitor.