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Remove liquid metal thermal paste on 2008 3.2ghz?

The Mac has now been running for 100 hours with Geekbench 3 stress test. 800% CPU used the whole time.
Geekbench Stress Finished.png
The sensors seem fine. Although, it seems like the Northbridge Chip sensor might be broken, anyone know where to find/fix it? Does it matter? It's always at 63C degrees. Of course it could be the software as well, but it has access to everything else. The cable I plugged in must be the "Northbridge Heat Sink" sensor, and that seems to work fine.

Heatsink and Core varies, Chip always 63C.
Attached are some sensor information for those interested.

Idle:
idle.png
Stress:
Stress test.png
 

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  • 1.Sensor Overview, Stress Test.pdf
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  • 2.Sensor Overview 100 hours.pdf
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  • 3.Sensor Overview Fans full after stopping stress.pdf
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  • 4.Sensor Overview Idle.pdf
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