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Colleagues from the German site ComputerBase.de described a situation in which the consumer interest in the properties of the regular thermal interface allowed Asus to improve the cooling system of its video card. Attempts to replace the thermal interface on video card Asus, as it turns out, have led to a decrease in the operating temperature of the GPU by up to five degrees Celsius. Asus, used in the manufacture of graphics cards thermal interface not inferior to the famous thermal conductivity of Arctic MX-2, and even exceeds the thermal compound on this indicator.
As we found out the joint efforts of the team ComputerBase.de, readers and staff resource Asus, a secret wing to change the force with which the base of the video card cooler pressed against the GPU chip. By installing the cooling system back after replacing the thermal paste, users simply pressed strongly to the GPU cooler. Similar measures after conducting detailed tests were implemented on the assembly line and Asus with the beginning of last summer. The company had previously feared to increase the contact pressure, because they do not want to provoke mechanical damage of the GPU and PCB. "Margin of safety" component was sufficient to safely increase the clamping force more than doubled. In turn, this has improved the conditions of heat transfer. According to Asus, now GPU temperature has decreased by an average of 5%. We emphasize that appropriate measures are implemented only on video cards that are equipped with cooling systems Asus proprietary.