R6950 running hotter than before

My R6950 Twin Frozr III used to idle at around 30 degrees. It is now idling around 45 degrees. I've checked for dust and it's clean. What do you recommend I do? Should I take off the cooler and reapply thermal paste? Or will that void my warranty?

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Alright, thanks for the quick replies. The reason I want to solve this is because the fan spins way faster in Linux than Windows, and it's gotten annoying how loud it is.
The CPU frequency is the same in Linux and Windows (if not a little slower in Linux).
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I don't see why the graphics card would be any hotter in Linux (although I'll check that out now).
The fan is spinning way faster in Linux, so it's definitely not that Linux runs the fan slower.
Do you think it would be safe to assume lm-sensors is just over estimating the thermal junction, and I can force the fans to spin a little slower?
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Core 0: +58.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +90.0°C)
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Well i'm sorry you've had such clueless replies to your question.....if i had a cent for everytime a "regular" toshiba contributor says "use compressed air" or "only use Toshiba display drivers blah..blah`.....i'd be a very rich man!
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'cos
This made sense:
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