It is normal to think that, due to the way a video card is built, it is not necessary to open it at any time, since for some people this can cause this component to break, mainly because ‘it is necessary to have a minimum of knowledge (or watch YouTube tutorials very carefully) before touching anything on our computer, so it is normal that people think that we cannot change the thermal paste on the computer. GPUBut this is not the case.
You can change the GPU thermal paste
It is not at all strange, as we said, that this is the case, since like the CPU, the graphics card integrates a similar chip that actually acts as the graphics processing core of our card, so that in turn, when using the Same type of design that can be found in a processor in which the socket, the electronic chip and the heat sink are located, our graphics work in a similar way.
This implies that between the chip itself which acts as the core and the heatsink, a thermal paste is used to reduce the temperature that this component can reach, and like the one we use in our processor, it can end up dry out. will increase our video card temperatures and generally make our PC worse.
It is recommended?
As we stated previously, thermal paste is not the panacea that lasts forever until you change your processor or graphics card, it is simply an accessory that has a limited time before you need to reapply it, so it really is. from time to time, but always considering several key factors that many people tend to forget and which are extremely important:
Warranty
You have to be very careful with this, because when changing the thermal paste you obviously have to open the Graphic cardso if we do it, we kill ourselves guaranteeso that in the event of an unforeseen event, we will no longer be able to apply for a new card.
Conditions
We can certainly think that the problem of our graph overheating is that the thermal paste has dried out, but this is not necessarily the case, since the very conditions in which we have the graph (dust), the environmental conditions (temperatures) and the use we give it influences everything when it comes to seeing what degrees the temperature of our graph oscillates, so we just need to clean it up a little to get it working as it should again.
The thermal paste itself
This can be a problem, because as we indicated previously, as soon as you open the chart you lose the warranty, so if you want to check if it is really the fault if poor quality paste was used or if it simply is. dried, you must disassemble your card to check it.
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