Hi, I was thinking about replacing my RX 470 thermal paste since it was getting hotter than usual, I thought arctic silver would be better than whatever ASUS put on. Anyway, I watched a tear down of the gpu (I haven’t actually opened mine yet) and I saw that there were no thermal pads on the vram modules.
Sometimes my pc shuts down, and sometimes just he driver crashes, when the gpu hits 70+c for too long, I have suspicion that this maybe due to the vrams overheating since I can’t monitor temps on them. My case (nzxt s340) has sufficient cooling, I have a good psu (seasonic s12ii 520 v2) and cpu temps don’t go over 45c.
Here is the video: [video="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mng0sASv7oY"][/video]
Is it worth opening it up (only 4 screws, quite an easy process) and replacing thermal paste and also putting some thermal pads on the vrams, will it help the vram temp and hopefully stop it from crashing my pc?
Thank you
Sometimes my pc shuts down, and sometimes just he driver crashes, when the gpu hits 70+c for too long, I have suspicion that this maybe due to the vrams overheating since I can’t monitor temps on them. My case (nzxt s340) has sufficient cooling, I have a good psu (seasonic s12ii 520 v2) and cpu temps don’t go over 45c.
Here is the video: [video="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mng0sASv7oY"][/video]
Is it worth opening it up (only 4 screws, quite an easy process) and replacing thermal paste and also putting some thermal pads on the vrams, will it help the vram temp and hopefully stop it from crashing my pc?
Thank you