GTX 1070 Founders Edition - Disassembly, Cleaning, and Replacing Paste and Pads (Guide)

This is a guide for maintaining the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition graphics card. This video shows how to disassemble and clean the card, as well as replace the card’s thermal paste and pads. Servicing a graphics card is a great way to keep it running at maximum performance while also ensuring its longevity. When a card is cleaned and given new thermal interface material, it runs cooler. This in turn allows it to safely boost to higher frequencies, resulting in better performance. In addition, card failure is prevented, because lower temperatures put less stress on the card. Chapters 00:00 Disassembly 05:03 Cleaning 11:18 Replacing Paste and Pads, Reassembly Tools and Materials Used iFixit Essential Electronics Toolkit iFixit Antistatic Wrist Strap Compressed Gas Cleaning Duster Cotton Swabs Microfiber Cloths ArctiClean 60mL Two-Step Thermal Material Remover and Purifier Enermax High Thermal Conductivity Grease Gelid Solutions GP-Extreme 12W-Thermal Pad, 80x40x0.5mm, 80x40x1.0mm, 80x40x1.5mm, 80x40x2.0mm Plastic Parts Tray Heavy Duty Aluminum Foil Programs Used 3DMark HWiNFO64 Music "Limit 70" Kevin MacLeod "Fantasia Fantasia" Kevin MacLeod “ Retrofunkish” SANDR (Argofox) “Midnight Cruise” Meizong & Yeeflex (Argofox)