This was KILLING this cards performance!

I was here when J did the gag with the 780 and he said "Where's the Ti!?" Seeing the reference 980 sure was a blast from the past.

Recently picked up a second hand RTX 2080 Ti with the same issues. I replaced the fans, replaced the thermal paste & pads, and cleaned it up. Now it works like its brand new 👌🏼

Probably should’ve taken the cooler apart too, the shroud around the heat sink means there can actually be a lot of dust that gets accumulated on the heat sink itself that’s not that easy to blow out. A great video nonetheless, repasting does so much for anything pre-2021 when manufacturers moved on to using phase change material

That ending! LOL If he went from a happy to horrified expression it would have been a twitch emote for sure! LOL

I LOVE Phil’s laugh. The end got me 😂 💀 Great video as always!

I have an old 980Ti and an old 750Ti I cleaned up and repasted about two years ago. That really helped the performance a lot on both of them.

That gpu design is a piece of art

You mentioned the whole dead person being in the GPU thing. It reminded me of a story a coworker told me when I worked at a data center in Mexico about how a new NOC employee/intern got stuck/locked in one of the server racks during a holiday weekend, and he stayed trapped in there standing upright unable to sit down because there wasn't enough room to move for the 4 day break. Other people were in and out of the data center, but it was such a massive place and so loud, even though he could hear the doors (they make a loud beep when opened), they couldn't hear him screaming. But even worse, he knew the entire time that there was a fire suppression system test coming at the end of the holiday weekend, so he would have been panicking, because when the other employees got back they did a sweep of the data center to make sure it was empty of people, and then they activated a test of their argon fire suppression system while there was "no one left" in the data center. This system replaced all of the oxygen in the server farm with argon. The kid passed away in there, and they didn't find him until a couple days later when someone came to switch out the tape backups. The crazy thing? All the kid had to do was reach back and pull a little latch and it would have opened the rack door from the inside.. Freaking tragedy.

There is something about Phil being happy in your videos that gives me so much joy to listen to.

Tks for the reminder of old paste drying out. Have a person who is having issues with an older card that needs to be replaced and cannot afford it right now. This might give it a little more life until that new graphic card can be purchased.

Hey Jay, you seem to be looking and feeling better. I hope it all stays that way. Just wishing you well man. Thanks for all the cool vids 👍

I just redid paste and pads on my 2080ti this week, the memory pads were hard and crumbly as dry clay! Temps obviously came down by a significant amount, it's absolutely worth doing.

These old cards can still live with the correct maintenance and still keep its performance good.

From TechPowerUp: The GeForce GTX 980 was a high-end graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on September 19th, 2014. So almost 10 years old. Nice to see that they can still work for some.

It is so nice to see 4M! Congrats!! Still got my 1080 and just did this about 9 months ago.

I wonder if Jay has ever told a joke that Phil didn't bust a gut at?! Lmao😂

I needed this today, Jay's humor and Phil's laugh always makes me laugh.

Love that your still passionate about what made you to all of us. Your still “king” brother. How about an update on you? I feel like after so many years of watching you, and using you knowledge to improve my builds, ....your family an I hope your doing better. Love ya bro.

1:18 man, if they had one that was fresh out from the box never used. it would also be good to see how much the performance has decarded over the years

So excited, exactly what I am like when describing any kind of tech to anyone I know and them looking at me like I have 3 heads.