Testing / comparing : Intel D975XBX2 / Asus P5B DX ***56K WARNING***

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quick question, my core TAT temps are always a few C apart. As much as 3 to 4C difference, the second core being hotter. Is this normal?

I think my AC5 job was slighly lacking on the bottom half of the chip. Which half is each core on, anyone know? I'm willing to bet it's core #2

One more question, I notice in RMClock that under Automatic Thermal Protection: TM1, TM2, Sync TM1, and Extended Throttling are all disabled. Is this OK? Will it affect overclocking at all? Did these get disabled due to something I did in the BIOS, like disabling EIST or Fan Control or similar? I manually turned them on and then forced both Thermal and Normal Throttling to 50% to see if it would crash while under Small FFT load and it throttled OK, so I think I'll turn it on to protect my chip.