• Do You Need Thermal Paste For Gpu

• The Deep Cool Z9 CPU / GPU High Performance Thermal Paste w/ Silver Oxide is an excellent thermal grease across multiple applications. It is designed for the demands of today's high heat applications like CPU and performance GPUs.
• New thermal paste fill decrease temperature and reduce fan noise too and is always good. But if temperature isn't near to critical, there's no need to buy it. Do a GPU Stress Test (with tools like AIDA64), if it gets near to critical value (in your case 90 C), then buy thermal paste.

Mar 22, 2019  So I'm not sure if this was intentional or just overflow from the GPU core thermal paste. Regardless, I'm wondering if I should have left the thermal paste on the capacitors in-tact. Otherwise, I'm hoping the thermal paste that came pre-applied to the new GPU cooler/pump will make its way down to the capacitors for cooling.

Edit: Never mind. 5 minutes after I posted this I found the specs on this TIM: the answer is no, it isn't good enough to be in the same room as my laptop. Egg on my face.I would delete this thread if I knew how.tl;dr: Is Dynex DX-STC1001 Silver Thermal Compound okay for the G73 GPU repaste or should I really go get an Aluminum Oxide based TIM?Hi all,I have had my G73JH for about 15 months and thankfully had a pretty trouble-free experience.until recently. (still my favorite computer ever )I am definitely having overheating issues with the GPU. I was experiencing the infamous 'playing a game and the computer turns off' issue.

I read the threads about various issues and updated both my BIOS (to 213) and vBIOS (the recommended one, I forget), which actually SOLVED the 'turning off during gameplay issue', probably because the fans are set to spin higher now b/c of the BIOS update.Since this got me concerned, I am constantly logging and monitoring temps now and I am seeing 104-105 deg C under load while playing, and from what I have read, the only fix for this is to repaste the GPU.My only concern is the suitability of the thermal compound I happen to have lying around. It worked fine on some older desktops etc, but I am seeing a lot of recommendations in forums to use IC Diamond 7 or other Aluminum Oxide based TIMs. Is silver TIM no longer good enough for gaming? (first gaming laptop, only reason I ask).Thanks in advance.paradigmsshift.

This is the standard 'saran-wrap-in-place-of-condom' question. While some toothpastes may provide the correct type of thermal conductivity, 'toothpaste' is too big a category to answer the question accurately. Worse, unless you want to make it a fun science project, nobody is going to be testing different types of toothpastes for thermal conductivity.That said, the answer is probably 'yes.'

Toothpaste is definitely better than nothing, because air (i.e., nothing) is a terrible heat conductor. Also just used toothpaste on my macbook pro 2011. It had a failing graphics card and being out of warranty I waited until it was truly dead = no boot.I took it apart, cleaned it and removed all plastic. Did a 'reflow' of the motherboard in our regular oven at 220 degrees Celsius for a couple of minutes. Applied toothpaste to the cpu and gpu and put it all back together.After all this it booted right back up. It ran hot for 2 minutes at 90 degrees Celsius.

(might have been a diagnostic check after being taken apart, OSX just testing the insides)It now runs at 45 degrees Celsius under normal load. No crashes, no funky broken graphics cards stuff anymore.It will probably set itself on fire at some point, but more likely because of the failing battery then because of the toothpaste.Just to be clear: this is an old machine that has been abused for many years.I work as a photographer and this is the machine that travelled with me. So it saw lot's of water, dust, sand, mud and everything you don't want around electronics.Do not try this just because you are too lazy to get the real stuff.Only badasses may proceed!Update:The gpu finally truly died. Well not really, the gpu is perfectly fine, even after months of having toothpaste for thermal paste. The solder connecting it to the motherboard however has too many cracks in it now and a reflow in a cooking oven no longer works. I've been using a rebuild with toothpaste on my Thinkpad T42 for about 3 years, with no problems. These laptops, however, are known for running cooler than most thinkpads, to begin with, and we don't play very many 3-D games on those ATI 9600's, so the load on the toothpaste is not very high.

Do You Need Thermal Paste For Gpu

If you are worried about the paste drying out, just use A LOT. The only part that will dry out is the stuff on the edges of the CPU, and if you are generous with the paste, there should continue to be a large amount in the middle of the CPU that is thoroughly wet. Or use 25% vaseline and 75% paste. Or 25% grease and 75% paste. Grease is basically oil & soap, to keep the oil from drying out.Remember, toothpaste drops the temperature by 20 degrees, even after 12-hours of burn-in, and arctic silver 5 drops it by 29 degrees at most. So toothpaste gets you 69% to cooling nirvana, even after the dry-out period.

You (or anybody else in kind of emergency) can just use regular (comestible) oil, or mineral oil which will be better if avail. For several weeks will work perfectly. Howerver, it will be mandatory to replace the oil with thermal paste after a while, because oil will polymerize and dry up in time.Long time ago (in 198x) i did this for heatsinking high power audio transistors in a 2x300W amplifier, because thermal paste was not easily available at those times in Romania. The oil runs well for years, but the surface was quite large and thermal requirements were not so high as in modern processors (some 3 cmp per power transistor case versus less than 1 cmp for processor).