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yeah all bga as of r2

will this work for the new AW 18?

great post man!, so basically just check for that contact and slightly bend heat sink pipe just before the radiator a couple mm's?

i'm getting a 880m sli if you need something to test on at some point, thats if you don't already have 30 lol

I broke down and cleaned, repasted the CPU and ran the same tests with a 10 to 15 c improvement with stock clock results max being 82c and overclocked seeing 85c max then trending down as the fans ramp up with no more throttling and temp spikes! I did this on the GPU's also and there was some noticeable improvement seen so I just wanted to share and say THANKS to all the great information that was provided here by the members.

what paste did you use for this?

thanks

Anyone know where i could get my hands on one, or atleast one compatible?