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Thermal paste for GPU

Grimley

Grimley

Grimley

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OK folks.
Cut a long story short, My nephew has 'acquired' a GTX 980 (yet to confirm) from a uni friend of his. He says that there is nothing wrong with it apart from that it needs new thermal paste.

Question is - can I buy thermal paste just for GFX cards, if not can someone spec me.

I dont often take GFX cards to bits, last time was to fit a Zalman GPU cooler to a HD4850 & that was a fair few moons ago. Because he hasnt sent me pics yet, I don't know if its a reference card or 3rd party.

So, I don't know if this is going to be easy or hard to do or I end up bricking the card, neither he nor I will want to do that, so anyone with experience of this as I've not done this for donkeys years?

Thanks.
 
Thanks for that. I've got some MX4 paste I keep for when I do a PC build, which isnt that often these days, so I'll use that. My only concern is that this card is one that Nvidia has made deliberately difficult to take the cooler off (Can't be that hard if they can be custom watercooled?)

I'll probably need to buy some thermal pads as well. I didn't know said pads are available in different thicknesses! so What do I buy?
 
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