Quote Originally Posted by freakBYnature View Post
It's like a car, it will probably do some better when it's broken in, correct me if I'm wrong anyone, but isn't the paste underneath the IHS pretty fresh when you buy it new? And that prevents proper cooling on core for some time?... Just thinking logically, I don't actually know, but it makes sense in my head right now atleast

Don't know about that, but I do think that alot of cpus that overclock poorly are due to bad contact with the IHS.