TUF NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Graphic Card - 8 GB GDDR6

I am not a hard-core gamer but I absolutely love this graphics card. It is everything I needed. It plays all my games in ultra on 1080p. I have no complaints except one. I had to pay well above msrp for it do to the great graphics card shortage. Sad times.

I purchased this 3070 used. Was in great condition. However, I noticed the temps appeared a little high. Doing benchmark testing it would get to 80-82 C. I removed the heatsink and found the memory pads were in great shape, but the thermal paste was all but dried up. I replaced the thermal compound using KryoNaut Thermal Grizzly. Put the card back together and then ran a couple of the benchmarks again. To my surprise the temperatures had dropped to 62-63 C! A 20 degree drop in temps! Wasn't expecting to see such a change in temps with thermal compound. I think I'll be replacing the compound once a year or so to make sure its always working as it should keeping the GPU nice and cool to extend it's life.