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question: i replaced the thermal pads & paste on my gpu, now vram is cooler BUT the GPU is hotter, why is that? did i do something wrong? more in comments :
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Long story short I took apart my gpu and the thermal pads ripped. So I figured thermal paste would work (it didn't) and now I'm stuck on what to do. : r/PcBuildHelp
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