I do NOT recommend repasting the GPU at this time because you may also need specific thermal pads (length, depth, height AND thickness as well as softness vs hardness rating - usually affixed to the w/m.k rating) and these pads are specific per brand not per standard model (most manufactures will disclose this information over email if you ask them).

This is one rabbit hole you really do NOT want to go down without proper experience.

I will recommend thermal repasting a GPU only WHEN the GPU is thermal throttling itself (i.e. shutting down).

The sucky thing about most 30 series (40 and 50, some but not all 20's and 10's are fine) Nvidia GPU's is that you must also take off the heatsink to change out a fan which I am personally not a fan of either and trust me, a GPU fan is most likely to go first before a repasting is even in the books.

Oh and I also did not mention torque specifics when it comes to remounting the heatsink and the "hidden" thermal pads that may get in your way as well underneath the main PCB.

Some heatsinks are torqued extremely high and this you must match so what I do is get a torque driver and find the torque forward THEN I remove screws/bolts so I know the proper torque because the manufacturers will not disclose that information nor specific schematics; although, you can find the schematics online most times.

Then applying those pads is another fate to seal as sometimes affixing them on the heatsink first does to hit what it needs to, some say, including myself, is to position those pads on the VRAM and suck sticky wide UP then attach the heatsink so you know they are proper as these cannot be even 1mm off the component.

Some people attach the pads sticky side DOWN but I am not a fan of cleaning that mess up.

And finally, we CANNOT FORGET that the board and sink are locked down 2 turns each fastener in a pattern similar to torqueing a car manifold which would be one corner (say top right) then the bottom left, then the top left, then bottom right, and THEN one middle top, one middle bottom and so forth.

Now, torqueing down a car manifold is per car manufacturer and are NOT the same for all cars (usually they have the pattern under the hood in a diagram) and a V4 is not the same as a V6 or V8 when torqueing down a manifold cover as you do NOT want oil spilling out the sides.

Wake me up when your Tdie/Tctl hits 94°C and make sure you are NOT running the PC when the ambient air temperature around you hits 91°F (32.8°C) nor should humidity be over 60% especially not 80%+ humidity.

As per Nvidia, the maximum safe operating temperature for Nvidia's 30 series GPU's is generally 93°C.

i agree with Alice, 80c is warm but nothing to be worried about.

Originally posted by Alice Liddell:

I do NOT recommend repasting the GPU at this time because you may also need specific thermal pads (length, depth, height AND thickness as well as softness vs hardness rating - usually affixed to the w/m.k rating) and these pads are specific per brand not per standard model (most manufactures will disclose this information over email if you ask them).

This is one rabbit hole you really do NOT want to go down without proper experience.

I will recommend thermal repasting a GPU only WHEN the GPU is thermal throttling itself (i.e. shutting down).

The sucky thing about most 30 series (40 and 50, some but not all 20's and 10's are fine) Nvidia GPU's is that you must also take off the heatsink to change out a fan which I am personally not a fan of either and trust me, a GPU fan is most likely to go first before a repasting is even in the books.

Oh and I also did not mention torque specifics when it comes to remounting the heatsink and the "hidden" thermal pads that may get in your way as well underneath the main PCB.

Some heatsinks are torqued extremely high and this you must match so what I do is get a torque driver and find the torque forward THEN I remove screws/bolts so I know the proper torque because the manufacturers will not disclose that information nor specific schematics; although, you can find the schematics online most times.

Then applying those pads is another fate to seal as sometimes affixing them on the heatsink first does to hit what it needs to, some say, including myself, is to position those pads on the VRAM and suck sticky wide UP then attach the heatsink so you know they are proper as these cannot be even 1mm off the component.

Some people attach the pads sticky side DOWN but I am not a fan of cleaning that mess up.

dont you think more heat can damage gpu itself?

Originally posted by Bing Chilling:

i agree with Alice, 80c is warm but nothing to be worried about.

im worry about heat can damage the gpu

Originally posted by $0LD!3R:

Originally posted by Alice Liddell:

I do NOT recommend repasting the GPU at this time because you may also need specific thermal pads (length, depth, height AND thickness as well as softness vs hardness rating - usually affixed to the w/m.k rating) and these pads are specific per brand not per standard model (most manufactures will disclose this information over email if you ask them).

This is one rabbit hole you really do NOT want to go down without proper experience.

I will recommend thermal repasting a GPU only WHEN the GPU is thermal throttling itself (i.e. shutting down).

The sucky thing about most 30 series (40 and 50, some but not all 20's and 10's are fine) Nvidia GPU's is that you must also take off the heatsink to change out a fan which I am personally not a fan of either and trust me, a GPU fan is most likely to go first before a repasting is even in the books.

Oh and I also did not mention torque specifics when it comes to remounting the heatsink and the "hidden" thermal pads that may get in your way as well underneath the main PCB.

Some heatsinks are torqued extremely high and this you must match so what I do is get a torque driver and find the torque forward THEN I remove screws/bolts so I know the proper torque because the manufacturers will not disclose that information nor specific schematics; although, you can find the schematics online most times.

Then applying those pads is another fate to seal as sometimes affixing them on the heatsink first does to hit what it needs to, some say, including myself, is to position those pads on the VRAM and suck sticky wide UP then attach the heatsink so you know they are proper as these cannot be even 1mm off the component.

Some people attach the pads sticky side DOWN but I am not a fan of cleaning that mess up.

dont you think more heat can damage gpu itself?

I have run GPU's without heatsinks for diagnostics and one time I tried to kill a GPU with heat and the hardware will shutdown first before damage is done but if you do keep pressing it past this point, damage will occur, so there is no initial damage IF the hardware overheats initially (I am talking over 100°C in my testing on a GPU without thermal paste with heatsink attached).

If anyone was wondering, I did see a lot of artifacts, lines, and a shutdown BUT no damage was done as I simply did not push it more.

As I stated per Nvidia, the maximum safe operating temperature for Nvidia's 30 series GPUs is generally 93°C.

And you have to expect that more demanding games will run hotter than other non-demanding games but I would not worry about your GPU at this moment in time.

Video cards always run hot. Don't panic its normal temperature range

Originally posted by $0LD!3R:

im worry about heat can damage the gpu

The chance that you damage your GPU while re-pasting is much higher than the chance anything bad will happen to it during normal use.