Arctic silver thermal adhesive for 9800 pro...

Question

I know a lot of people have gone aftermarket w/heatsinks for their 9800 Pros, but I'd like to stick w/the stock solution. What I'd like to do is remove the heatsink and shim then attach the heatsink directly to the GPU core using Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive that's been diluted w/Arctic Silver III TIM. The thing is the instructions for the Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive don't recommend using it to attach to CPU's. Does the shim on the Sapphire 9800 Pro have the same huge gap the Sapphire 9500 Pro's had? -Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)