I decided that I would take off my northbridge to reseat it today, and it was totally worth it. I got 33* load instead of my old 41*.

When I poped off the whole thing, the southbridge stayed down and the pipe came out of it so I didn't get a look at the southbridge TIM. I'm sure it's the same as north, but is it worth taking it off to redo? From what I've read the southbridge doesn't really matter, especially because I'm not doing Crossfire.

I'll post pics/specs once I get up to my max overclock. I think it'll go quite high considering I'm running 3177mhz on my Q6600 G0 with stock voltage (1.28 load after droop).