7900GS Thermal Compound issue

[DeadlyAura]

Well, I took the HS off of my eVGA 7900GS to replace the thermal compound with some AS5. I had heard that AS5 also works better than the stock thermal pads on the RAM.

So I pulled off the pads and applied AS5 to all the RAM and to the GPU core.

When I replaced the HS, I looked to make sure everything was in order and noticed a very visible gap between the HS and the RAM chips.

The RAM isn't even near touching the HS. Now, I'm scared to plug it back in and use it and the thermal pads aren't in such hot condition now...

What do I do?

 

[Chernobyl1]

Remove the paste from the memory chips and put the pads back or get an aftermarket cooler that fits flush to the memory.
You can buy the pads but I dont know where.

 

[DeadlyAura]

Remove the paste from the memory chips and put the pads back or get an aftermarket cooler that fits flush to the memory.
You can buy the pads but I dont know where.

Bah, that sucks.

Alrighty well, the pads are in disarray. So, I'll put them back on for now, they will be fine. I got a Zalman cooler for it that will be here next week. It wil be fine until then with the crap pads.