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6+970 crazy temps

maggoo

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had to replace thermal pads on both sapphire 6970 ref cards reapplied tim on both gpus plus new thermal pads but getting crazy temps on load jumps from 40 to 100 deg in a matter of seconds can any one tell me what thicknes of pads i need
 

Prolab

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Well, is the fan working at all?

Are you manually controlling the fan?
 

odis172

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Check that the pads aren't too think, and preventing the gpu core from making good contact with the heatsink. So pull the heatsink off and check if the thermal paste has been spread out or if it still in a ball or line like how you applied it.
 

maggoo

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it is spread out could i have damaged any of the chips would that cause over heating
 

Adzsask

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it is spread out could i have damaged any of the chips would that cause over heating

Just reapply, your wasting $.50 on some thermal paste, better then toasting hundreds in graphics card.
 

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