Z Naught

I just put my new computer together and have been playing crysis maxed finally and have been getting some pretty high temps with my EVGA GTX 285. The max temperature for the series is 105C on EVGA's website and I have gotten up to 103C once, but usually it sticks around 75-80C ingame. Im wondering if I should maybe get an aftermarket cooler? Or maybe EVGA will release the backplate for the GTX 285 eventually?

Thanks.

mocha989

thats seems pretty normal load temps. if you can take the Cooler off and replace the stock crappy silicon TIM paste with some Acrtic silver MX-3 or OCZ Freeze. I did it on my 2 260s and it dropped my idle temp from 40 c to 36c and load temp from 70 to 77c to about 60 to 65c.

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Z Naught

Yea I heard that its applied pretty poorly, so that is an option, but will it give me head room to OC?

Also updated my sig with my new system.

mocha989

yeah it is. it took some working getting it all off. it seriously is so ridiculously overloading with TIM. yes you will have overclocking head room and you have head room right now.

Wait whats your fan speed at? go to evga.com and download Evga Precision so you can overclock and adjust fan speed. i would put it at 60 to 70% 24/7 not just for gaming

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M1 Abrams

yea thats hot, for sure.
edit: rma maybe?

Z Naught

I have some Artic Silver 5 from my CPU, will that work for the GPU too?

Edit: I have tried running the fans at 100%, they are just too damn loud for me to enjoy gaming.

I guess I should also ask if thermal compound ever goes bad, as I put this stuff on my CPU 2 years ago, and did it again on this CPU now, it seems to be running pretty cool now though with 40C for the hottest core idle.

mocha989

set the GPu fan to 60% and jsut leave it. youll get use to it. also dont use arctic silver 5 its crap stuff now and it could fry your GPU since its conductive. get some MX-3 paste of OCZ freeze

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Z Naught

If I do this, should I also replace the thermal paste that I have right now on my CPU? As I think I put way too much on, although im getting perfectly fine temps. (not OCed)

mocha989

yeah if you get MX-3 paste i would change the paste on both the CPu and GPU. use a pea size dot on the GPU since the nvidia GPU is huge itll need more ot cover it more thoroughly and then use a small horizontal line on the CPU.

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/96...mpound_4g.html

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Z Naught

Sorry for all my questions, I just want to get into overclocking and dont exactly know where to start

I guess another question would be if I need to apply thermal paste and such to the memory too?