Have any of you ever seen ANY piece of hardware drop by 30° from just paste alone?
I'm asking just bc I have high hopes really is all.
I have a ROG RTX 2070 (8GB Factory OC) that's about 6 yrs old in an extremely well ventilated case that I recently found was getting VERY hot! The neutral temps are just fine but running even a VERY old "AAA" game (Far Cry 3) is slamming the core temp to around 100 with "Hotspots" hitting 106!!! CRAZY!
It was cleaned, decently, this yr, is in a very ventilated case (temps on everything remain the same even if pulling a side panel off), and was really never pushed hard for a significant amount of time.
So I just have VERY high hopes that simply changing the paste out would drop it to the 80's during games like this but I'm pretty sure I'll likely just need an entirely new card......UGH!!
So have you seen temps EVER drop by 30 from paste alone?
I'm asking just bc I have high hopes really is all.
I have a ROG RTX 2070 (8GB Factory OC) that's about 6 yrs old in an extremely well ventilated case that I recently found was getting VERY hot! The neutral temps are just fine but running even a VERY old "AAA" game (Far Cry 3) is slamming the core temp to around 100 with "Hotspots" hitting 106!!! CRAZY!
It was cleaned, decently, this yr, is in a very ventilated case (temps on everything remain the same even if pulling a side panel off), and was really never pushed hard for a significant amount of time.
So I just have VERY high hopes that simply changing the paste out would drop it to the 80's during games like this but I'm pretty sure I'll likely just need an entirely new card......UGH!!
So have you seen temps EVER drop by 30 from paste alone?