7900xt re-paste

[Heisenberg]

Decided to give my 7900xt a bit of love after noticing hot spot temps were pretty high running at stock. Started running a bit of an under clock to keep in check. Re-pasted last night and made more of a difference than I expected. Found the old paste was quite hard and brittle. Used some thermal grizzly kryonaut & found I now get lower hot spot temp in particular and higher sustained boost clock as a result.

Dropped from 102c hot spot to 86c. Well worth the hour or so it took to do.

 

[Heisenberg]

100c is not healty. Anything above 90 is worth paying attention to. What pards did you use on memory? and what thickness?

I agree, that’s why I decided to repaste it. I just reused the pads that were on it. There’s no need to replace the pads unless using thermal pads for the die from what I gather. Also unsure why the images have stopped working

 

[Heisenberg]

How old was the card, and what model? - Wouldn't have thought it'd need repasting so soon.
I havent monitored temps other than main GPU core since just after I got it.... maybe I should

It’s a Sapphire MBA model so Amd reference. I think the temps have always been pretty high but usually play less demanding games and never paid much attention. Possibly a bad factory paste job but I was surprised how hard the paste was.