4090 strix thermal paste replacement

Hey everyone!

I just wanted to share that I have done a thermal paste replacement on the card and am fairly surprised by the results.

First thing I checked were the thermal pads, all of them are making good contact. So I did not replace those yet. (In a few months I will)

My before results on OCCT were Gpu temp:76-77c Hotspot temp:95-100c

After results OCCT Gpu temp:68c Hotspot temp:86c

3D mark port royal before Gpu temp:74c Hotspot temp: 88c

After results 3D mark port royal Gpu temp:66c Hotspot temp:73c

Fairly happy with the results and wanted to share here, to show it did make a bit of a difference. Sad to see asus didn’t use very great paste with these cards. The die originally was covered as well, and wasn’t a poor job on their end. You would imagine they wouldn’t cheap out in the top of the line cards of theirs. The paste used was Thermal grizzly kryonaut extreme. I evenly spread it on the gpu die itself.