thermal pad replacement

[King_Weaver]

Ok so while im waiting on my new motherboard to arrive, I decided to pull the top off my 8800gt. I was greeted by those craptastic white thermal pads. They were already in rough shape and I kinda finished them off in a fit of rage, which was completely unrelated to computers. (im glad I didnt break the whole damn card). Anyway ignoring my anger management issues, lets get back to the issue at hand. As of right now Im going to continue to use the stock cooler so I need to put it back on. problem is the gap between the ram chips and the heatsink is far to great to fill with AS5. Also Id rather not have to order something. What are my options here? Is there anything I could pick up at radio shack or...dont laugh...walmart?

 

[KamelRed]

Dude, maybe you should never ever touch computers ever again. Bad BIOS flash and now thermal pad destruction. Is nothing safe from you?!

*hides his PC in fear*

 

[King_Weaver]

Dude, maybe you should never ever touch computers ever again. Bad BIOS flash and now thermal pad destruction. Is nothing safe from you?!

*hides his PC in fear*

dude ive had the worst day in months...its really quite sad. Anyway all I can do is hope I can shake off the bad mojo over the weekend.

 

[King_Weaver]

false alarm... I wasnt putting the heatsink/fan back on correctly. With it on right the gap is much much smaller, small enough for AS5. So Ive got the card all back together now, things are looking up.

 

[KamelRed]

Good to hear.