Dirty Graphics Card
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 6:11 pm
Hey there.
Today I removed cover + cooling from my graphics card to clean it a bit.
Before I tried to measure the cards temperatureunder load with GPU-Z (nice tool btw.)
I experienced about 100 °C during BF4 and 100% fan speed.
This is how the fan and heat sink looked when I opened the cards coverage:
This is how the thermal compound looked before and after cleaning the heat sink:
Fresh thermal compound, assembling all, I did the next test and yes:
max. Temp about 74°C and fan way more silent at about 60% speed.
When have you cleaned your PC the last time?
Today I removed cover + cooling from my graphics card to clean it a bit.
Before I tried to measure the cards temperatureunder load with GPU-Z (nice tool btw.)
I experienced about 100 °C during BF4 and 100% fan speed.
This is how the fan and heat sink looked when I opened the cards coverage:
- dusty
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- Thermal compound
- IMG_0709.JPG (640.85 KiB) Viewed 17777 times
- clean
- IMG_0713.JPG (548.57 KiB) Viewed 17777 times
max. Temp about 74°C and fan way more silent at about 60% speed.
When have you cleaned your PC the last time?
