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Holly!!! Those are too high temps!!. Try using Everest, It reads from the cores too. Wow. Have you checked if your heatsink is very well seated and making good contact with your CPU? Have you checked you are giving it the right volts? I dunno about Infinitys mobos, they should be like my expert, so I'm guessing you have in the bios, a startup vcore option, and other 2, one is in Volts (can't remember the name) and the third is in percentages. So be very carefull on those calculations and how much voltage are you actually giving it.
Other thant, what is your Gskill memory model? DFI mobos are very picky with mem settings (at least lan partys are). Maybe you can tune them, or relax them a lot and see what happens.
I would suggest removing the IHS, but I think you should leave that for last.... I haven't seen any of those last steppings doing so bad at 2.8 ghz, and at a soo high temp as yours, so must be something else.... Check if the heatsink is well mounted, other suggestion is trying the stock heatsink (the one that comes with your Opty is not bad at all for 2.8 ghz, at least has heatpipes right?), so that way you can rule out the heatsink as being the culprit.
Other than that, I see you are using a .5 multi, try to avoid doing that, sometimes Optys "don't like" half multis...
Everest is F***** up. It gives me an idle temperature of 28 but it doesnt change with load. I have already made sure that the heatsink is well seated with adequate thermal paste. To confirm that its making good contact, I removed the CPU fan for a few seconds and it did get pretty hot to the touch showing there is good conduction between the core and the base of the heatsink. I am giving it the correct volts...Infinity boards only have one VCORE option. I know the Lan parties have the percent voltages too but I don't know what other voltages you are talking about...unless they are the VDIMM and VCHIP.