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    Question Do I need to reapply thermal paste after removing the "Protection Back Plate" from Radeon™ RX 5500 XT OC 8G

    Aha, that's the dual GPU part. I need to boot 6 monitors in total and was previously using the old card plus a USB adaptor. Lately, as the USB adaptor starts to get me unstable output and I started to get flickering output from one certain DP port on the old card (GTX 970). Then, I got the new...
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    Question Do I need to reapply thermal paste after removing the "Protection Back Plate" from Radeon™ RX 5500 XT OC 8G

    I should have exposed the thermal paste applied onto the GPU chip, between the GPU chip and the heatsink. I did not touch the Graphics chip itself, nor tried to further take it apart. The goal was meant to quickly take out the backplate from the card. Also, what would be a warning temperature...
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    Question Do I need to reapply thermal paste after removing the "Protection Back Plate" from Radeon™ RX 5500 XT OC 8G

    TL;DR Should I bother to reapply thermal paste when I exposed the socket for 2 minutes on a new graphic card? No jump in temperature so far (2 hours after putting all the screws back, lol.) Today, I exposed the socket on a Gigabyte Radeon™ RX 5500 XT OC 8G card when removing its "Protection...
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    Question 300W TFX PSU with 10 Pin + 4 Pin, for IdeaCentre 510A

    Shorter question: is there a tested PSU upgrade for IdeaCentre 510A? Here is what I am looking for: Form factor: TFX Power: 300 Wat minimum Pinouts: 10pin + 4pin Specs for the computer: http://psref.lenovo.com/Detail/Lenovo%20Desktops/ideacentre_510A15ICB?M=90HV001PUS I bought this Ideacentre...