Question Thermal paste on rx 570 and rx 580

[rexop5]

Hi,where to apply thermal paste on rx 570 and rx580 cuz they overheat during game.

thx in advance

 

[Lutfij]

The only place you should place thermal paste is the GPU's die(a pea sized amount) and let the cooling plate spread the paste across when you tighten the cooling assembly. You can't substitute thermal pads with thermal pads though. You could look into thermal putty instead of thermal pads but the old school way of doing things is high quality thermal paste on the GPU die and high quality thermal pads on the VRMs and everything else that should make contact with the heatsink.

Got a link to the GPU's in question? You could try undervolting to help alleviate your overheating issue, if your case has ample airflow. Speaking of which what is the make and model of you case?

 

[Imperat0r]

Hello.
Overheat...hmmm...define what is in your case the max temp that those cards achieve during gaming.
The best thing to do is to test them and put here some more info related to that max temp.