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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>cravinmild;15514624</strong> <br>

Very informative. Good show man. I did not know any of this stuff, i thought i <i>was</i> looking at the chip when the heatsink was removed. The results really show in the first pic with the new tim applied. It did not spread much and was very thick but after sanding the tim, spread was much better and alot thinner.<br><br>

+rep for you<br><br>

PS how did you come across this, ive never seen the card broken down that far or ever read about this...fantastic stuff<br><br>

PPS. what did you do to reattach the IHS, that looked like a foam/glue mix originally but it was removed after you sanded the edges down.</div>

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I'll talk about that and add that tomorrow but basically I didn't glue the IHS back. I figured the heatsink will keep it together. I could if I wanted but i'm not 100% done with it yet. So When I take the heatsink off, the IHS comes off with it...every time. Its ok. Its sortof optional.<br><br>

In a different thread someone had a MSI GTX 580 and his IHS came off when he tried to take the heatsink off to re-TIM. He talked me into it. +rep for him!