u/Laserwitz

I just changed my graphics card's thermal paste and pads. I used thermal putty in place of pads. Using 3D Mark and Furmark, there is a drop in temperatures. However, for Furmark, the difference between the average and hot spot temperatures increased from 15C to 17C. Is this acceptable?

I am looking at the maximum by the way and these data are from HWInfo. For the thermal paste, I placed two lines on the die and then spread them evenly.

Below are my PC specs:

• CPU - Ryzen 7 5700X
• GPU - Gigabyte RTX 3060 8GB
• RAM - 32 GB DDR4

Thanks.