Replacing the thermal paste on my 770

[tupacalypse]

I have a 770 reference design and i read that gpu 2.0 is based on temperature, would replacing the thermal paste to ACS5 improve performance to where i would notice it?

 

[cburke82]

If you can find tests that show the new paste will help cool better than it may improve a bit butthe card works great out of the box. Are you having issues with some games not being at good FPS?

 

[tupacalypse]

sometimes while playing sims or tropico i get big FPS drops

 

[cburke82]

well you should not be getting FPS drops in Tropico.... Says your in SLI also...2 770's should handle that game just fine. Does you card stay at 80c while gaming?

 

[tupacalypse]

it stays under 70c most of the time and i only have 1 770 right now

 

[cburke82]

If its under 80c then the paste will not help. I know my cards will push the clock rate untill they hit 80c then go down if they get over 80c. But dropping from 70c to say 68-67c will not help.

 

[tupacalypse]

then what could be the cause of my FPS drops? i have a decent computer

 

[cburke82]

How long does the FPS drop?

 

[tupacalypse]

goes down to 40 fps sometimes

 

[cburke82]

40 is not that low how long does it stay that low? If it drops to 40 for a few seconds it not a big deal but if your spending long times at 40 FPS there may be something going on. is it only happening on Tropico?

 

[tupacalypse]

40 is not that low how long does it stay that low? If it drops to 40 for a few seconds it not a big deal but if your spending long times at 40 FPS there may be something going on. is it only happening on Tropico?

just for a few seconds

 

[cburke82]

Could just be the way the game is coded. Something is causing a small short drop in FPS. I dont think its your card and swapping the thermal paste will def not help at all.

 

[tupacalypse]

ok thank you 🙂