VengefulSpirit
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Hello, Since 2 days ago im an owner of a used r9 290x, since the previous user did not remove the stock cooler , i was concenred about the factory thermal paste being all dried up so i decided to replace the paste. Longstory short, i can't seem to be able to get it right. I've already reapplied the paste 3 or so times using different methods ( line down the middle, an x with a - over it -to get as much of it as possible on the gpu die, and a pea method) and the temperatures stay in high 80ies and low 90ies to mid ( when to 1140/1350 which should be a walk in a park for this particular model oced) and whenever i take the card apart i immediately know why ( http://imgur.com/a/CtO88 ) as you can see for some weird reason the thermal paste gets a weird air pocket or is magically squished out of the middle . i removed the old thermal paste , applied the new one, and tried to place the card onto the cooler as accurately as possible ( note that i never placed it perfectly over the screws so i gently nudged it a milimeter or so to the right or left to align the screws) and then i proceeded to tighten the screws in an x pattern until tight, but then did not try to screw any further so as not to strip the threads. I used the arctic mx-4 paste , but this tube looked differently than the previous mx-4 that i had( http://imgur.com/a/mmatm as opposed to this https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/519SY4zgtzL._SL1200_.jpg ) is this thermal paste bad for gpus? should i buy thermal grizzly, or anything else more viscous so it doesnt squeeze out of the core? im really resigned now, i was getting 82C on water ( kraken g10 with thermaletake water performer 3.0 with Noctua fan on rad) which is really bad, considering i was getting 69 on a top card in crossfire on it previously