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looking at those pics it seems like that with that much paste that it would go over the edge of the ram and get on the board. Ill give it a try and see if there is any changes. thanks for all the help!

thanks, I was scared to put too much paste on the gpu and just did a little bit bigger than a pea size... guess that was not enough maybe... and also im using i think 1mm pads on the ram... I have some mx4 and some other paste I bought.. think I should just put paste on the ram instead?

well forgot to say that I was using hwinfo while i was running furmark. That is where I got my numbers. Okay guess ill wait to repaste until I receive my other heatsink for my second card. Stupid dell sent me two heatsinks for the left card sigh. Well looking at those numbers you think that id have to do the ram also? or just the gpu? oh also added a pic in case you wanted to see.

i pulled it out today and ran furmark and seems it is running now, before i ran the program and it didnt even spin when it got hotter and my heat rose quite significantly. today its just working so i guess its fine.. for now... though I am having higher temps then I think I should be. The high point after a little bit of furmark for my gpu was, GPU thermal diode 111C, GPU TS0 74C, GPU TS1 111C, GPU TS2 87C. it was a first time for pulling apart this laptop and first time doing a paste job on the gpu and putting pads on the ram. From the numbers shown think I should repaste and or re pad also?

Decided it was time to upgrade my 4870 to a 5870. After the installation was complete and I turned it back on the fan did the initial spin. I took a look at it later and the fan was not spinning. I looked on hwinfo and it said it was spinning at 30%. I was able to install the dell drivers after the upgrade but was not able to download the amd driver for it right now cause I have such crap internet. Hwinfo recognizes the card is a 5800 series. Only thing I can think of why it is not spinning is because I dont have the amd driver installed. Anyone else had a problem with the fan not spinning?