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Question about stock gpu cooler + thermal paste

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I know I've read about this several times, but it has been a while and I can't seem to come up with the results in the search, so here we go.
9800gtx+ with a stock cooler was giving some artifacts while gaming, so I figured maybe it's getting too hot so I'll try to get a bit more life out of the card. I cleaned out all the dust and I'm going to put on some new thermal paste on, but I'm curious as to whether or not I can apply it to the chips across the board. There's a sort of white putty on it now, and I'll leave it if thermal paste doesn't work so well (especially on the smaller pieces) but I just wanted a second opinion before I ventured into anything blindly.

Don't bother suggesting aftermarket cooling. This is just a temporary card for about a month that my friend let me borrow.

Edit: Forgot to ask if it's okay to push the termal pads back into shape a bit since they're pretty compressed now.
 
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Do not put thermal paste on anything other than the core and maybe the RAM chips.
I think you'd need a ludicrous amount of thermal paste to fill the gap between the RAM and the heatsink. That is why they usually use thermal pads for that.
 
Yeah, I agree you just use paste on the GPU and leave everything else alone. The tape isn't as good as paste and ideally you'd want paste everywhere, but as Dark12 mentioned there are usually huge gaps between the RAM/mosfets and it's impractical to try to fill those gaps with paste.
 
Keep in mind your thermal paste is probably conductive whereas that white goop is not. Don't apply it to anything that looks like it could be shorted out.
 
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