But Charlie, I don't really see how much closer to ambient temps higher-end air cooling would get you with these chips. I mean they are 27 watts, maybe 33 overclocked. How would a larger heatsink help? At some point, unless you can go sub ambient, I don't see any real benefit, which is why I think non-chilled water would be useless on these.

BTW, I will be hooking mine up today, just trying to get motivated.

Quote Originally Posted by charlie
just playing with my new ct-479 and p4c800....

and now I can see that you can't just use a normal p4 hs/f with modded clips or longer screws because of the ct-479's fsb jumpers and 4-pin connector on the pcb.
If you have access to a machine shop, you could mod a certain shape p4 hs/f to clear these, kinda' like the asus stock hs/f is built.
Ychocky, welcome to XS forums!