[Verify] Good Paste job ?

Hello NBR users,

I recently bought a new card and installed it myself with some help of guides.
Now that the new card works fine and all, I'm not 100% sure about the temperatures.

Tools used :

• Anti static wrist band
• ArtiClean Thermal surface purifier
• ArtiClean Thermal material remover
• IC Diamond 7 Carat Diamond thermal compound
• Multipurpose Air Duster / Cleaner

Pictures had to be downsized from 3264 x 2448 to 1200 x 900. Otherwise file size was to big..

Part 1 : Old Card
In 2011 my AMD 6970M started misbehaving, and I've sent it to RMA.
1,5 week later they emailed me that I broke the card with a horrible paste job and that my Silver thermal pasta conducted and broke the card.:



It evolved into a 3-4 months case of accusing and blah blah. The fact that I used IC Diamond 7 and them saying it's silver , and the fact that they kept saying new things made me suspicious.
I mean looking at the pictures both my GPU and CPU where horribly caked. Wouldn't my CPU break too then... well in the end I received a new CPU free of charge because I showed them it was performing bad.. and not because the paste.

I didn't want to pay €700,- for a new GPU back then and told them to sent it back and I would fix it myself. After a lot of testing I found out that the issues occured when it changed clock speeds.
2011 -> 2013 I've managed to use the card normally by forcing the clocks with Ati Tray Tools, preventing it from switching and crashing.

Part Two : New Card
Since last month this no longer worked and I ordered a new card of eBay : http://www.ebay.nl/itm/141022004495?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649#ht_500wt_1156

Received it 2-3 days later and planned to put it in the right after receiving it.

So I opened up my notebook;


Found out I missed a screw.. odd.. so went searching and found it stuck behind my fans... couldn't hurt anything from there but scary!


Duo restrictions of only 6 pictures per post. I'll continue down:

 

So after removing the GPU heatsinks this is what I found :


So I cleaned it up with artic clean etc... looked like this.
*Still had to clean the ram sinks*



Took out the CPU ones too and cleaned them up..



Took out the new card :


So once all where out and cleaned, including the heatsinks etc.. I went to place the new Video card.

 

Placed it in, added that stupid plastic cover.. was still sticky so thought might as well use it.


So I pasted the GPU.. did it like 3-4 times and then removed it again to check how much it had spread... once i was satisfied ( little )...



Then did the CPU twice because I was not satisfied with the dot.. left a lot of space on upper and lower part

 

All this resulted in the following temperatures :

Furmark

Previous Card :


This Card :


GPU-Z:



I undervolted the card at 0.95v to reduce the temperatures.. but something odd is there.

GPU Teml # 2 is 10*C lower then the other two temperatures. Is this because the paste is not applied well ?

 

I'm seeing 93C max while running Furmark, thats a great number. You can also run something that would be more on par as to a game like 3D mark as see how you are.

 

That is on the previous card though, will run it on this one after dinner and 3D Mark too.

 

Ran 3D Mark : AMD Radeon HD 6970M / 6990M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2820QM Processor,CLEVO P150HMx

Temperatures:


Score seems low, and temps high... but could be me.

And 3D Mark 11 : http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/6947454

Temperatures: