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This explains it for a 6970, but it should be similar.
Thank you very much for your support.
I do have some TIM left around from one of my heatsink applications. But I don't know if I SHOULD remove the heatsink and do to see if I get any improvement, I mean.. I guess it can't kill the card if I just take the heatsink off, clean the paste, reapply and put everything back together right?
Alright, I'm going in. I'll be back once I'm done and let you know the results.
What is the fan running when you are gaming? Could it simply be a matter of bumping the fan up 10-20% or so?
The fan is running under an MSI fan profile.
I applied new thermal paste, the old one was incredibly dry. So I replaced it with one with a bit more viscosity.
Idle temperatures are one degree higher after the replacement, but it could also be the paste getting used to the heat I guess.
I screwed up something. I tried doing a valley benchmark and it got to 100C in less than 10 seconds. Now my idle temperature is 45C after a 10 minute cooldown.
This is bad.
Ok go through the steps again double check everything and dump all fan profiles let it run stock for half an hour with no load let the paste settle then try a little load give the paste a little time to settle in on the second attempt
Also if you still have the 7770 see if the cooler can be swapped and if so try that out
alright, will do. Be back in a while
Okay so I did it all again. Let it sit idle for 40 minutes at 41C, then did some HD playback to bump up the use to the 15-20% and that bumped the temperature up to 53.
After an hour or so I decided to fire up minecraft which is pretty mild. It used the same 20% load and took temperatures up to 66.
Let is rest a little longer. Then I started up Dirt 3 and just the menu alone takes the temperatures up to 90%
So I believe I made something bad even worse. Ironically, I don't know how you can mess up putting a rice sized glob of TIM on a chip. I've never had problems doing it to CPUs.
I just think it 's a bad card you can return it they will still accept it as a return just have to make sure it looks as it did when you got it then describe the problem and hope for the best
I sorry but if you have that other card use it as a back up until then