Thermal Throttling on My Hades Canyon

Bought my Hades Canyon in 2018, only open up to clean the dust and didn't replace the thermal paste at all. So these few months I noticed that if I play games, the network card will suddenly just turn off by itself, I thought it's the network card faulty or maybe it's the ethernet cable but confirm is not ISP because my wife and daughter have no issue with their mobile devices.

At one point I even replaced the ethernet cable to my room because I thought the cable was faulty but it didn't solve the problem, now that I think of it, I don't think there is anything wrong with the cable.

Only these few days then I realise that the network card will auto switch off when the temperature of my CPU go too high like 80+ to 90+, I thought this temperature is normal during load so that's why it didn't dawn on me, I also thought the network card is a separate piece so I didn't think if the CPU throttle, the network card will shut down.

So I thought maybe I can try replacing the thermal paste, I bought a cheap "Cooler Master High Performance Thermal Paste" for S$6 on amazon.sg, plus delivery total is S$8.99.

Not difficult to clean off the existing paste, it's all dried up though, I just use a few pieces of normal wet tissue, did the job nicely, no need those expensive special wipes. Then I put a little paste, maybe too little, in the end I opened up again to put a bit more.

Now seems like my network card won't auto turn off anymore, in general feels smoother, not sure if it's an illusion though, maybe monitor for a few more days.

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