Monitor the temps with MSI Afterburner and make sure that temperature is in fact the problem. A 7950 should crash somewhere between 90 and 95 Celsius. If it's getting that hot, yes, you'll want to re-seat the cooler and apply new paste.

ive cleaned as much paste off as i could but i cant get to the paste that has gone over the sides and onto the little chips on the edges should i try my hardest to get it off or would it work with it on here is a picture to show you.
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Strippers wrote ive cleaned as much paste off as i could but i cant get to the paste that has gone over the sides and onto the little chips on the edges should i try my hardest to get it off or would it work with it on here is a picture to show you.
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Yes that paste should be removed unless you are 100% sure it's non conductive

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Strippers wrote ive cleaned as much paste off as i could but i cant get to the paste that has gone over the sides and onto the little chips on the edges should i try my hardest to get it off or would it work with it on here is a picture to show you.
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Yes that paste should be removed unless you are 100% sure it's non conductive

as far as I know its still stock paste do they normally do use non conductive paste?
If not whats best way to remove all unwanted paste

Your best bet to get rid of it would probably be to get some isopropyl rubbing alcohol and put it on some cotton earbuds and gently rub it around in a circular motion around the area you want to clean.

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Treyarched wrote

Strippers wrote ive cleaned as much paste off as i could but i cant get to the paste that has gone over the sides and onto the little chips on the edges should i try my hardest to get it off or would it work with it on here is a picture to show you.
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Yes that paste should be removed unless you are 100% sure it's non conductive

as far as I know its still stock paste do they normally do use non conductive paste?
If not whats best way to remove all unwanted paste

Your best bet to get rid of it would probably be to get some isopropyl rubbing alcohol and put it on some cotton earbuds and gently rub it around in a circular motion around the area you want to clean.

OK cool thanks I'll look in maplin tomorrow for some.

Will this do ?
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The stock stuff looks like ceramic paste. They apply it so sloppily that they'd have tons of bad cards if the paste was conductive and getting it on the ICs actually caused problems. Get what you can and leave it. Q-Tips with rubbing alcohol are useful.

r00t wrote The stock stuff looks like ceramic paste. They apply it so sloppily that they'd have tons of bad cards if the paste was conductive and getting it on the ICs actually caused problems. Get what you can and leave it. Q-Tips with rubbing alcohol are useful.

OK thanks for all help will try my hardest to get as much as I can off could you recomend a good thermal paste to use as a replacement?