Ok. so, ive opened it up and cleaned the gpu and cell and now looks like this


so, cleaned off al the old thermal compound. also looked up some tutorials and faqs online on how to apply thermal compound. it mostly says to remove all the old compound which by the way looks really crisp. then to aply the new compound as eavenly as possible all the while avoiding to get some on the mainboard (good luck with that :P ).
so, i'm now attempting to apply the thermal compound. I got something that said nano silver, whatever that means. i went with the more expensive one which was about $3.50 for a small tube with iduno 5ml or less? it was either that or the one that cost $1.50 for a small tube.
hopefully this helps.







