#Suggestions Thermal Pads

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paper spade
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Hello people of LTT discord! I am currently using a RTX 2060 from Galax. Its been 2.25 years since I've bought it, and its time for me to do some maintanence.

I would like suggestions on what to look out for, where I can get answers from and what type of thermal pads I should look out for?

Also, one user had mentioned thermal paste, that is for the GPU itself, yet I'm looking for thermal pads for the VRAM. Can I repaste the GPU and use pads for the VRAM simultaneously?

thanks in advance

fiery storm
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Yeah, you can re-use the old pads. I recently re-pasted my RTX 2060 and just left the pads on and couldn't notice any performance decrease. unless they're cracked or super dried out and could shatter into dust at any moment, you can leave them on there

paper spade
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aye thats really neat, did you get any temp changes?

split granite
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Well maintenance is just meant to get it to the same performance it was 2,25 years ago if you think it’s getting slow could either be gpu heats up more meaning paste is dried out or software wise the pc is getting slower because of higher demand

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Sometimes a clean OS can do wonders for a pc as well

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To answer your question: yes you can if you want to don’t have to

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Maybe it’s in this database? Which sizes?

fiery storm
# paper spade aye thats really neat, did you get any temp changes?

Yeah, I feel like my temperature went down by a few degrees and the fan could spin slower. But I couldn't improve the delta between hotspot and GPU core temp (17°C both before and after the repaste, but I might just have a bad GPU that gets that kinda hotspot temp... or maybe the hottest sensor is very close to the transistors, therefore getting hotter than all other sensors, but 17°C is still perfectly reasonable)

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But I am gonna sell that one since I had already purchased an RTX 3060Ti and I repasted the 2060 so that the buyer can enjoy a card that performs like it was new

paper spade
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