Quote Originally Posted by thelawns View Post
Well I did something potentially foolish last night...

I should have my Thermalright bits and bobs arriving today so I thought I'd prepare the mobo a little by getting the Fusion block off. The foolish part was doing it while the PC was still on! It worked and came off pretty easily but the temp started rocketing from 40ºC right up to 85ºC+ by the time I managed to shut the thing down. Hopefully it'll switch back on OK!

Please do no not try this at home kids!
You got lucky. The intel instructions that came with my Q6600 has that the average life expectancy of a chip with no heat sink, is 10 seconds before you fry it.