My water cooled GTX 280 story.

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Nice OC results. I would just like to point out though, for the GTX280 and most nvidia cards, you only want to apply a dot of TIM in the center of the GPU. Reason being the nvidia cards actually use a heatspreader, like CPUs do. It is not direct core contact as with ATI GPUs.

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That really dfepends on what kind of TIM and how each individual person applies it, and is used to doing it. I too get better results by spreading it, but the TIM's I use are thick. The trick with spreading it is not to get it too thick and make sure only a thin layer is on there. I use a razor blade as a "squeegee".

Try some of that new Liquid Diamond 24 Carat...that stuff is thick. I was helping one of my freinds last week with his new video cards and I had to put that stuff in warm water for a few minutes and still spread it...it's really thick. He now has 3xGTX280's. He finally got rid of his 4870x2's and wanted me to help him get up and running. Aw, and yes they have water...3 FC blocks and termps were actually surprisingly matched for a 3 card setup. I was impressed.