Quote Originally Posted by vincey2kr1 View Post
Have you tried taking off the pwm and getting rid of the Thermal Clay(yes clay lol), its a tedious job prepare to use a toothpic and qtips though. I added some AS5 and I believe it helped, at least i can touch the heatsink for longer then a 2seconds now
I could be wrong here but if your heatsink is now cooler to the touch (since you can now touch it for longer than 2 seconds) than the AS5 is most likely not conducting heat as well as the factory installed stuff (if the heatsink was hotter before than it would be safe to assume it was getting more heat transfered to it before)? I went through this same thing on my eVGA after replacing the same clay stuff with AS5. It ended up being that my factory installed heatsink just wasn't making contact with all heat producing chips after the reinstall? Anyway just something to think about...