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Originally posted by ChrisJericho
Regarding your video card problem. It's common for the crappy ATI thermal paste to not always be providing a good thermal medium between your the core and the heatsink. So your heatsink may be working, but it's possible that perhaps the thermal paste is only covering 40% of the core which would result in over-heating.
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You were spot on about the thermal paste not being applied correctly. It seems that the paste only covered the edges of the core and missed the middle. There was some excess paste around the core so I used that to fix the mistake. I can now get up to 295 before artifacts start to kick in. I'm quite happy with that but I still reckon I should be able to at least overclock it to some degree.
When I get a chance I'm going to go pick up some thermal paste. I think I may have not applied the paste correctly to my CPU heatsink when I installed it, as I am getting temps of around 50c when set back to the original, non-overclocked settings; although I do have the fan to spin at around 1350 RPM so I don’t deafen myself when I try to sleep. Would ceramique or artic silver 5 be suitable for both my video card and CPU?