Gaming enthusiasts love to tweak their hardware. Whether it’s through overclocking, more efficient hardware, or better cooling. Not too often to people work with the actual graphics card and adjusting cooling outside of software based fan adjustment. But some new thermal paste can help the R9 290x from AMD to run a lot more efficiently.
Toms Hardware took a Gigabyte R9 290x, disassembled it, put some new thermal paste on and re-assembled the cards again. The new benchmarks show that there was a big difference in the running of the card, power consumption, etc with some new thermal compound. Anyone who has used good thermal compound on processors knows how big of a difference that it makes.
Take a look at the article and see what a change in thermal paste on these cards can do!