8800GT Voltage Regulator heatsink help

[Stephen]

The sticky thing on the heatsinks are like this:

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(imagine my edit is a straight rectangle - soz on laptop)

Do i put em on like that?

[Stephen]

k ive put em on like that anyway. If its on wrong or i need more heatsinks then ill just get the turbo module asap

[Stephen!]

[Stephen]

i think i needed more heatsinks and thermal paste. 75 idle isn't good, it's worse than before lol.. I'm not gonna even dare play a game

actually i think it's just thermal paste. And I should of cut one of the voltage regulator heatsinks in half so it fitted better

[Stephen!]

The smaller you make the heatsink, the worse it's going to cool the vrm chip. Bad move.

[Stephen]

im gonna buy some new ones for the vrms. The ones I got with my cooler were made for the chips to be like

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but 8800gt is

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so they don't fit. I need square ones.

So

Heatsinks for vrm
Thermal Paste

[Recursion]

MX-2 Thermal paste ftw.

[hamheyelliot]

MX-2 Thermal paste ftw.

You've got taste in paste lol

[Stephen]

where can i get some new heatsinks for my vrm

and lol k no running games until I fix my cooler. Ran up a source game and my temp shot up to almost 100

[Stephen!]

If you're talking about the core temperature being over a hundred, then the problem is with the main heatsink's contact with the GPU.