Quote Originally Posted by stone_cold_Jimi
You're absolutely correct there. This is critical. Also, uneven will show as one core failing much earlier than the other.

The weird thing is, the 3800s I've had that ran hot for this reason became outstanding once the problem was fixed. Like they'd "burned-in" with a bad contact. I really believe this helped.
im gonna go stick a matchbook under a corner of my hs