Wanted to make this post to not only say a massive THANK YOU to anyone who've contributed to the conversation of repasting GPUs but also making it into an environment who a newbie, like myself, can feel safe about doing so.

Today, I finally got all the supplies I needed to repaste my GPU.

I have a Palit 3080 Ti Gaming Pro (paired with a Intel i5 12th gen, inside an SFF-case in the form of the NR200p Max).

Before repasting, my GPU's fans would hit 4000rpm on running benchmark software like Heaven and Superposition, or playing games like Hogwarts Legacy.

On HWinfo, my core clock would hit between 75-80 C but hotspot temp was around 105 C. Of course anyone can see that's a problem but not knowing how to repaste (and having not done it before, it took months of reading to dive into it!).

First steps I did was undervolt and set an aggresive fan curve as advised by some of you (again, thank you!). This helped a bit but at the cost of performance.

I achieved an undervolt of 0.775mV hitting clock speeds of 1755mHz. Average FPS on Superposition benchmark (8k) was 50.13 with a score of 6702.

Now, it's not bad or anything but that +/- 30 C difference between core and hot spot temperatures was still bugging me a lot.

So I went into research mode and got the following:

• PTM7950*
• Thermal Putty**

*Seems the consensus is that this is the way forward and produces outstanding results.

*Unfortunately for this model of GPU, the right thermal pads are almost impossible to buy so I went with putty.

The work itself was without it's challenges but lots of videos out there for specific card models so I was able to follow safely.

I'm beyond stoked to report that on running a stock settings benchmark on Superposition after repasting and changing pads my GPU is now reporting:

• 1980mhz
• 71.2 core max temp
• 79.9 max hot spot temp
• 52.88 average FPS
• 7070 score

These are unbelievable gains at stock and I'm still blown!

I am currently tinkering to OC and undervolt and currently my most stable settings achieved is:

• +255mhz core clock offset
• +1150mhz memory clock offset
• 0.825mV undervolt

This is giving me:

• 1875mhz max clock speeds
• 66.4 C max core temp
• 73.5 C max hot spot temp
• 55.97 average FPS
• 7483 Superposition score

The other best part is that the fans are now so silent. None of the benchmark maxed my card RPM and I have my case fans running to a decent rpm noise-wise as well.

I truly underestimated the effect repasting and changing thermal pads have on a GPU and I wish I've done it sooner. I highly recommend the process if you have a card like mine that's a few years old. I definitely feel like I just got a brand new card.