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Should I make a thermal maintenance on my GPU?

mclaren85

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Well I played God of War: Ragnarök for about 30 minutes with ultra settings (DLAA) to measure the temperature of my system. According to latest GPU-Z log data, the temperatures are shown below. Do you think I should change the thermal pads or thermal grease of my 3080? Cause the Hotspots temperature looks dangerously high.
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Nah. If you aren’t seeing thermal throttling you are fine and GPU temps themselves are solid. Keep in mind this is Ampere, which was notoriously fairly hot due to the dogshit Samsung node. You aren’t going to get much out of swapping the pads (that’s not helping the hotspot). Swapping the default thermal paste for a PTM pad miiiiiiight improve things a bit, but the difference is unlikely to be massive for the hotspot, that reading is often iffy. Not going to hurt or anything, but disassembling the whole card is always a hassle and WILL require you to change all the pads for ones that are the same thickness, which can be a pain to find out.
 
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@Onasi, yeah, I'd rather undervolt it.
 
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Onasi said:
Nah. If you aren’t seeing thermal throttling you are fine and GPU temps themselves are solid. Keep in mind this is Ampere, which was notoriously fairly hot due to the dogshit Samsung node. You aren’t going to get much out of swapping the pads (that’s not helping the hotspot). Swapping the default thermal paste for a PTM pad miiiiiiight improve things a bit, but the difference is unlikely to be massive for the hotspot, that reading is often iffy. Not going to hurt or anything, but disassembling the whole card is always a hassle and WILL require you to change all the pads for ones that are the same thickness, which can be a pain to find out.
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No never have experienced thermal throttling. Thanks for your help
 
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