rjohnson11
If you opened your RTX 4090 to re-paste it you might have voided the warranty. 

lol. I’d like for them to try it. I’ll contact the federal trade commission, and file a case in small claims court.

Good Luck and hope this gets solved quickly

rjohnson11
Good Luck and hope this gets solved quickly

It’s resolved for now. Card is working fine at the moment. If it gets hot again I’ll try some thermal grizzly kryonaut, or maybe even some kingpin cooling kpx before rma’ing.

so what fixed it?   Patience?

Delirious
so what fixed it?   Patience?

The hotspot was hitting 95c. It’s now hitting 80c after a repaste which is within spec.

ok, good, the repaste then

rjohnson11
If you opened your RTX 4090 to re-paste it you might have voided the warranty. 

Yeah if you read their warranty, a repaste they can basically do a car dealer move and say that contributed to the failure.

Sajin

The hotspot was hitting 95c. It’s now hitting 80c after a repaste which is within spec.

Find a quality tim that does not degrade or can take the abuse longer.

donta1979

Sajin

The hotspot was hitting 95c. It’s now hitting 80c after a repaste which is within spec.

Find a quality tim that does not degrade or can take the abuse longer.

Yeah, when it starts getting hot again I’ll be trying thermal grizzly or kingpin cooling kpx.

Sajin

donta1979

Sajin

The hotspot was hitting 95c. It’s now hitting 80c after a repaste which is within spec.

Find a quality tim that does not degrade or can take the abuse longer.

Yeah, when it starts getting hot again I’ll be trying thermal grizzly or kingpin cooling kpx.

I put TG on my Gigabyte 4090 OC a year ago when I put an EK Quantum block on it and temps seem to still be behaving.  You got me paranoid so I went and checked.  Only thing I have to test with is high stress stuff like 3D Mark but at 100% load it was still good. Think the hotspot hit like 64C.  I actually tried OCCT first, but I think either their latest update has an issue, or it's these newer 54x.xx Nvidia drivers cause 30 seconds into the GPU test I get a black screen every time, but I know there have been black screen complaints about the new Nvidia drivers, and OCCT was just fine a month ago (before I updated drivers/OCCT).