Quote Originally Posted by Spawne32 View Post
lol regardless of what you think is flat with your naked eye, the IHS on all intel CPU's arent flat, they are designed with a concave center so that the retail heatsink makes specific contact with that area. Part of the reason the retail heatsinks are designed the way they are.

Now i know TR bases on all their heatsinks generally have poor maching but im just saying you can make a direct judgement of contact by thermal paste alone. I learned that the hard way.
dude, stop deflecting the point... its junk out of the box

my test results? it was no better then my XP120, which is about 3*C behind my Enzotech EX120.