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Question

GPU overheating

Apr 3, 2016 12:35PM PDT

So, I recently took apart my computer and replaced the thermal paste on the cpu and gpu. I was very careful when doing this. I put a pea size glob of thermal compound on the heat sink and lined it up with the card first try with barely any sliding(maybe a fraction of an inch) and screwed it in right away. I feel like I didn't allow any way for air bubbles to get in the paste The gpu fan went bad and I took it off, but after turning on my computer the graphics card is now overheating even worse. There's no room for a fan near it(it's simply not an option. There's not really even room in the case for a newer graphics card(as most of the ones I've looked into come as cartridges and not just board/card).
So, I can turn the computer on and I can play VERY low-req games(runescape is the only one so far lol), but if I start anything more intensive(even like kotor 2/terraria) the computer starts getting choppy and the card heats up to upwards of 100C(yes I know that is VERY bad), so playing games is my an option at present. Any ideas on what might be wrong? Is it just that there's no fan? Did I maybe mess the thermal paste up somehow?

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I'll write no.
Apr 3, 2016 1:12PM PDT

Since it sounds like there is now no GPU fan, it's proper for it to overheat.

What do you mean by "cartridges"?

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Cartridges
Apr 3, 2016 2:07PM PDT

I just mean they're larger and they are mostly covered by their fan/heatsink. They are a lot bulkier compared to some of the older ones. The ones I've seen looking through some recently. I just did a quick search of a bunch of newer ones though and they definitely don't all look to be bulkier.

I saw a few people say you can run your gpu with no fan if your case airflow is good, which mine is. Mine would have been fried in a few minutes had I not monitored it when I started up a game though.

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To which I'll disagree.
Apr 3, 2016 2:24PM PDT

Plus the 640 was not known for it's low temp ways.

About the newer models. Folks wanted less noise so to do that you need a bigger heatsink and maybe 2 fans or a huge fan. I see nothing wrong about that.

And you've proven it needs it's fan.

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Yeah
Apr 3, 2016 3:46PM PDT

I wasn't saying they were right. I was actually just saying that they were certainly wrong in my case. I also don't think there's anything wrong with the newer gpu's, only that I don't think some would fit in my case. I'm just going to replace the card though I think.

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Gpu
Apr 3, 2016 8:33PM PDT
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Over heat
Apr 3, 2016 1:54PM PDT

You will either have to replace the card or the fan.
What is this card.....make/model?

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GPU Model
Apr 3, 2016 2:12PM PDT