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Originally Posted by Dr_BenD_over Knowing Asus, they probably left the protective film on the GPU and it's not even making contact with the heatsink. |
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F'n A Jesus christ you were real close. REAL CLOSE to the sticker still on the chip theory. I got to thinking... maybe he is right... why else would it get that hot..... So I popped it out of the case and took off the four screws holding the cooling unit to the board. There was one small dot of paste in the lower left part of the chip. About 65% of the AMD chip had no paste. Neither did the heat sink that surrounds it. BASTARDS. ARGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! After applying some paste to the chip and square around it I reset the cooler to the chip and tightened the four screws back down and droped it back on the MOBO. After it fired up I looked at catalyst and it said 53C. I seem to have solved my overheating problems with the Asus 6970. HA HA HA! Happy day!

She went from 95C+ to 53C. I used the $7 cooler master thermal paste. Now I just scored a 42,000 on Vantage.
AMD Radeon HD 6970 video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2600K Processor,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. P8Z77-V PRO score: P42855 3DMarks
Sweet.... Ok, time to spark one up and launch Skyrim.
All that because ASUS cheaped out on $0.40 cents worth of thermal paste. I must have broken what little connection there was between the paste and the chip when I took it off the old board and put in on the new one.
Thanks for all the comments and ideas everyone. Without the random snide comment from Dr Bend over I would likely still be up a creak without a paddle. Cheers to sarcasm!!!!