does reapplying thermal paste void your warranty

[swiftmetal]

Hello I have recently bought a xfx dd 7870 le Tahiti edition gpu. It idles at around 45-50 degrees and when I am playing games it gets upto anything around 80-95 degrees. After trying to rma this for very high temps with no avail I contacted xfx who said that safe top temps where 95 degrees so would not do anything and it would only throttle at 105.

So my main question is that I have seen it banded around the forums about reapplying the thermal paste to get better temps, but upon opening the whole thing does this void the warranty and would I find it hard to rma if it went wrong.

Thanks for your advice

 

[LtMatt]

Technically yes, but as long you're carefully and don't damage anything they won't know.

 

[swiftmetal]

I was just about to redo the past and noticed that on opposite corners of the screws that I have to undo to get to it have very little stickers on them. I take it that if break these they will do nothing if anything goes wrong?

 

[LtMatt]

Warranty void if removed stickers? Got a screenshot of them?

 

[tommybhoy]

XFX warranty void if you remove the cooler unless you reside in USA, for whatever reason, support suposedly stinks outwith the US.

 

[swiftmetal]

Ah well that idea is over with then justs annoys me that I am stuck with a very hot gpu just becase I live outside the us epic sad face

 

[MrMarvelous]

I'd just do it regardless, that sounds wayyy to hot. If you know how to use tools and screw/unscrew just go for it, it's really simple.

 

[bru]

Technically yes, but as long you're carefully and don't damage anything they won't know.

This is nonsense, how any repair technician is going to fail to notice nonstandard paste as soon as they remove the cooler I dont know.

 

[LtMatt]

This is nonsense, how any repair technician is going to fail to notice nonstandard paste as soon as they remove the cooler I dont know.

You sure about that Bru? My MSI 7970 OC card made it through the Ocuk and MSI RMA process. Not bad considering this thread documented it all from start to finish including a dozen or so changes of paste amongst many other things.

 

[bru]

Im very pleased to hear that your MSI card wasn't rejected due to you replacing the paste, but quite how that makes it ok for you to give advice to someone to change the paste on a XFX card, telling them that they will never know is quite baffleing to me.

I'm sure that the people who looked at your card saw straight away that the paste had been changed, and decided that it was ok in that instance, but in my opinion it is dangerous ground to give advice that it is ok to do these things in such a cart blanch way.

 

[LtMatt]

Im very pleased to hear that your MSI card wasn't rejected due to you replacing the paste, but quite how that makes it ok for you to give advice to someone to change the paste on a XFX card, telling them that they will never know is quite baffleing to me.

I'm sure that the people who looked at your card saw straight away that the paste had been changed, and decided that it was ok in that instance, but in my opinion it is dangerous ground to give advice that it is ok to do these things in such a cart blanch way.

Providing there are no warranty void stickers and you don't damage the card when changing the paste then they will never know, unless they're mystic meg of course. Or maybe they have someone that does a taste test on the paste so maybe they know by the taste of the paste Bru.

 

[Rofflay]

I would never do it thats just me and it gets to me the odd time why they never use AS5 or Liquid Pro.I mean jesus how much extra can it cost to do one batch with top quality paste and a better fan?


My 580 stinks with noise and heat and im sure 9970 will be no different.

 

[gareth170]

Providing there are no warranty void stickers and you don't damage the card when changing the paste then they will never know, unless they're mystic meg of course. Or maybe they have someone that does a taste test on the paste so maybe they know by the taste of the paste Bru.

depends on the colour of the paste u use. the paste most graphic card manufactures use is white paste. so they could know by the colour..

i've put ocz freeze extreme on my 6990 and that paste is gray-bluey.