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all right so you guys know I like to respond to emails and comments and things that tend to you know kind of feel my channel so I know what to make and I get an idea of what people want to see and usually I get it well wrong I don't know I guess content here kind of sucks even if the comments seem to be a little bit trollee if you guys can learn something from the video then heck I'll go ahead and do it I'll respond to the trolls but anyway let's be honest here we're about to try today could go very very wrong and I don't want it to but it could but I kind of want it to because then it probably get more views but anyway I digress so believe me when I say that you really don't want to try this at home and if you do and you mess up your stuff that's on you not me you've been warned I'm a professional professional new do you like custom keyboards and programming will add some good news for you because the good folks over at mass drop have a long term drop going for the ergo Docs ergonomic keyboard kit available in various switch types and is 100% custom programmable the drop is active right now and will run until May 22nd with an expected ship date of August 25th sound cool well you know what to do check out the link down in the description so in my last video which you guys can see right here if you haven't seen it yet if you've already seen it you're awesome watch it again because that'll make you more awesome I installed the water blocks on the three 980ti is that are being installed inside of project red mist and you guys had a lot of interesting things to say obviously about that video was just which is fine which is good but I think one of the most resounding things people had to say was something along the lines of damn bro thermal paste much I mean seriously there were a lot of those comments now several years back Logan at Tech Syndicate did a how to apply thermal paste video in fact I even did one when I first started YouTube there are tons and tons of how to apply thermal paste videos and most recently Luke over at Linus tech tips also did a video where he showed the different styles and did back-to-back comparisons to see if they made any sort of real difference and the only conclusion that could be drawn was the only thing that matters mostly is whether or not you have too little too much doesn't hurt your cooling it could hurt your motherboard components you know if you were to take a conductive cool thermal paste and spread it out and start touching capacitors and other diodes and solder points and but for the most part it doesn't hurt your cooling now the common thread all of those videos including my old one have in common is the fact that if talking about CPU thermal paste and obviously you don't want to spread that too far over the edge of the actual heat spreader because then it could get down into your socket which is going to lead to a very bad day so I got me thinking we should really visit this topic when it comes to GPUs but with a J's $0.02 twist may have noticed I had a benchmark running behind me the entire time I've been doing this video in fact it's been running for over a half-hour right now it's a gtx 680 EVGA I believe it's a for the wind card it's actually the sixth pin and the eight pin not the six and six but anyway I digress it's been running for a while now so that we can get our baseline temperatures to see how well the card is actually cooling in its stock form with its blow or cooler as you can see right there and it is running right now at 76 C balancing between 76 and 77 it's been running for a half hour it's not getting any hotter than that so with that baseline out of the way let's take the card off let's take it apart now let's have some have some science time it's kind of like science week in January but in April okay so I'm gonna revise that a little bit the absolute max temperature at least according to precision was 78 and that's where it kind of like peak every now and then they go beep beep beep beep like could pop up in there yeah 78 so we're gonna see if it gets any worse than that I guess transition I think one of the most alarming things I read in my recent comments was the amount of people saying what the amount of thermal paste you used it's going to squeeze over to the sides and it's going to touch the side of the GPU pins and stuff and it's going to totally short it out and the reason why that concerns me is I think the people saying that I've pretty much never taken a GPU apart otherwise they would realize that that's exactly how it is from the factory oh my god the pace is touching all those pins no in theory that should be good enough to prove my point that touching the little solder points around this GPU core like that is not going to be a problem although this is a J's $0.02 video and so I am going to do all sorts of things that are going to make you cringe well again for the sake of science why not holy hell my fingers are dirty even I'm touching them I'm touching it oh I'm touching the prm's oh crap oh eh I've certainly killed this board now look I'm even flexing the board like that without flexing it left flexes it's a flexi board wobble wobble so I'm gonna do the exact same you know kind of an X with a cross method that I did in the video that you guys were complaining about because remember this is exactly the way that UK recommends that this go on with their block yeah that looks like a lot of pace right holy hell oh that is so much bass no I just spit somewhere yeah I just spit on there there that looks pretty good this is a J's $0.02 video so you know it's gotta go all out yeah I get in there oh yeah yeah nice and there get in there oh boy yeah miss a spot no miss was about there - oh man certainly killed this card now huh and with the help look at that oh man are you cringing yet don't forget the plug in your fan when reassembling your cards kids yeah I say kids I know who's watching this video I know who's watching right now even the birds are pissed off the birds are like what the Jay why did you do that well oh oh oh thank God I thought to be like crap I up you know it's funny about that that 29c Idol on the graphics card that went down three degrees down three degrees from when when I started this test that's funny let's do some see some Haven all right we got the good old heaven test running same exact test we used last time so let's let this thing run for a little bit and see what happens so far we're sitting at 48 see 49 it takes a little bit for the the 680 to cool or don't to warm up that Kepler though man Kepler for the win all right it's been running for a while now and I know people aren't gonna believe me but it came down it came down in temperature compared to before it's at 74 see so let's go ahead and let's quit out of heaven and let's see what a max temperature 75 you see that right there max temp 75 mofos it came down three degrees Celsius now what okay now I don't know about you guys but I'm a little bit interested to see exactly how far the thermal paste spread out now there's a point to this whole video so hang with me and and we'll get there eventually oh yeah it's so stringy that's what she said well it's pretty obvious that like every single square millimeter of that socket is covered in thermal paste now at this point I'd like to have a serious chat here obviously this was all theatrics and a bit excessive to prove a very basic point as long as your compound is non conductive you're not going to cause any damage to the pins around the GPU and the reason why you want to use what would probably be considered a liberal amount of thermal paste on your GPU is affect that there is no heat spreader on the GPU that is the cover of the die which on CPUs you have a heat cover or a heat spreader that will touch that to spread the heat out even more which is why you can get away with the corners and stuff not necessarily being touched by thermal compounds on a CPU but you can't get away with that as well on a GPU I've had issues before where I've used two little pastes and not gotten all the way to the edges and ended up having to take the entire water block apart and put more thermal paste on so I personally tend to get a little bit liberal with that thermal paste because I want it to flow over the edge of the die and get as much coverage as possible now obviously I showed you even the even the OEM is when they put these together have excessive amounts of thermal paste that touches these little pins so everyone in the comments that was screaming like oh my god the thermal compound is going to be touching the pins and it's going to shoot out your GPU and the world is going to explode that's only partially true if you are using a conductive thermal compound which is a lot less today than it used to be like Arctic silver used to become conductive it's not anymore but if you use the thermal compounds that are non conductive and come with your GPU blocks they are safe and you're not going to have any sort of an issue no obviously I don't recommend this and obviously I use my 680 because I was too to try it with one of my 980ti is to prove the point because let's face it there's always that slight chance something could go wrong thanks for watching today's video I hope we proved the point and and its face I know someone's probably already typed this before watching to the end of the video which should teach you a lesson don't comment before the end of the video I'm aware that the reason why the temperatures probably came down with all of this gunk on here is simply because it was new thermal compound and given the fact that this graphics card is going on what four years old very are three and a half years old something like that could have very well just been the fact that the other compound was hard and this is fresh and giving a better bond but obviously I proved that too much doesn't affect that bond as much does it anyway I'm going to get out of here now guys check out my second channel um link is in the description it's my cars and vlogs channel it's actually growing really fast I'm really happy with that where I do talk about Mizzy and work on the car just vlogs and random stuff but make sure you guys tune in next week where I show you the proper methods of how to use isopropyl alcohol to clean off the old thermal paste on your CPUs am i doing it right