MSI X870 Gaming Plus WiFi – Ryzen 5 9600X w/FW 360 AIO – 32 GB T-Force 6400 CL40 – Silicon Power 4×4 2TB NVME – Red Dragon 850w PSU – Sapphire 9070 XT Pure. After trying several different thermal compounds and application techniques with little difference in GPU hotspot change, after an hour at full load hotspot was 80c and GPU edge temp was 44c. I went finally went full balls with Arctic MX-6 and spent a couple hours working it into every crevice in and around the die and completely encasing the vram. This picture was actually not the final product because i built up the vram compound surface to excede the height of the original pads, then put a thin layer of lower viscosity MX-4 over the die edges and anywhere else that i thought needed some buffering to make contact. I'll be the first to admit that it's a complete frankenstizzle of paste job and I honestly expected this to hurt my thermals but… First half an hour was only a couple degrees cooler but after a couple hours under load the compounds really interfaced and i was at 70-75c under load and now fluctuates but is average 73c or lower I would say. I'm kinda blown away and wished I had taken more pics or made a video. I almost didn't post this because there are going to be so many people losing their shit, ice cream dispenser thermal paste style, but Ive been doing this a long time and happy to see something that actually gave real world results