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thinking of changing gpu r9 290 tim

Yea I didnt get mine from OCUK, regret it now! So Im going to give them an email and ask if msi will still cover the warranty like they do here... If alls good I will let you know what its like. My msi 7950 had quite a lot on it too
 
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Whether you are happy with temps and fan noise is up to you. If you do open it up, I'm interested in how the stock paste is. One of my cards had almost none applied and temps dropped by 20C and another had a bit too much iirc.
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mine had very little paste on.removed it in seconds and put a pea size blob in the middle and screwed the cooler back on.now its all settled down i idle at 37 c used to be 46c sniper elite 3 used to be 90c now 83c so im getting around 7c or 8 c less temps i used mx2 paste,and i use 4.4 driver.
 
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If you wanted you could set the fan to auto and it should keep temps of around 80c with fan speed of 60-64% or undervolt by -25 in Msi afterburner with a overclock of 1050/1250 to reduce fan speeds to 50-53%.

I tried replacing the tim as well but it did not make any difference as my temps were normal enough to begin with.
 
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