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What thermal paste can I use on my HD 6870?

SaiZo

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I recently bought a second hand card from my friends son, a Radeon HD 6870.
It was from the start mounted in an Alienware system.

However, I was thinking of replacing whatever thermal paste they might have had from start on it, everything is secured with screws, some with springs.
Trying to lower the temperatures a bit. They are around 40C at idle.

I have some Arctic Silver 5 at home, will this do or should I get some other paste?
 
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any thermal paste you can use for your CPU will also work for your GPU.
 
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SaiZo said:
I recently bought a second hand card from my friends son, a Radeon HD 6870.
It was from the start mounted in an Alienware system.

However, I was thinking of replacing whatever thermal paste they might have had from start on it, everything is secured with screws, some with springs.
Trying to lower the temperatures a bit. They are around 40C at idle.

I have some Arctic Silver 5 at home, will this do or should I get some other paste?
Click to expand...

just use that and make sure you have good contact and clean up old paste before applying new paste :toast:
 
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Thanks for the replies! I'll come back after I have applied the thermal paste if there is any change in temperatures.
 
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Be careful with conducting pastes, there are a lot more exposed contacts on a GPU card which you don't want to spill conducting material on.
 
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SaiZo said:
I recently bought a second hand card from my friends son, a Radeon HD 6870.
It was from the start mounted in an Alienware system.

However, I was thinking of replacing whatever thermal paste they might have had from start on it, everything is secured with screws, some with springs.
Trying to lower the temperatures a bit. They are around 40C at idle.

I have some Arctic Silver 5 at home, will this do or should I get some other paste?
Click to expand...
btw have you checked the fans, clean up the fins and what about airflow?
sometimes 2nd card got hotter coz of dust on the heatsink :D
 
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