Quote Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue View Post
let me understand this in my mind...you are still using the TIM pads on the PWM that came with the board or did you move on to ceramique, mx2 or as5.
I left the pad on the PMW area but used Ceramique on the NB and SB. It was an experiment to see any difference between the pad and Ceramique, which I used on the first IP35-Pro I had. I will probably change it out as the temps are not as low. I had read in this thread how some were doing the bolt mod but using the pad so I tried it to see the results.

On a side note, I decided to do a test last night to test 3.6ghz, but not with Prime or Orthos, but more along the "Ace" theory of will it work with what I do with the computer. Voltages were set to 1.4825 vCore (1.37 actual), 1.47 MCH, and 1.65 ICHIO. Speed was 8x450 with ram at 1:1.2 for DDR 1080@2.2v, 5.5.5.18. I then encoded a movie using CCE using multi-pass VBR. I have seen this scenario crash a Prime stable AMD system before. Encoding went off without a hitch. I then ran 30+ minutes of rFactor without a hickup. Maybe I am putting too much emphasis on Prime for my situation.