ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[devilhood]

Happy new year everyone.

Ok, using BIOS 0907. I have just been fiddling with a CPU that has a VID of 1.2125v and now I can finally hit 3.6 GHz stable on air with a horizontally aligned TRUE, but Core Temp seems to be showing quite high temps... Core #0 = 77 with the rest being 75c, 73c and 75c.
After an hour or so the temp rises to roughly 80c on the first core even though everything remains completely Prime95 stable.
I can't actually remember if they were this high previously, which is a bummer on my part for not taking notes.

It's only when it does Test 2 on Prime95 that my CPU temps shoots up to 75c-77c though, the rest manage to stay at 70c-73c.
The temperature comparison when considering a 100 MHz gap, i.e. comparing 3.6 GHz to 3.5 GHz seems to make a 3c-4c difference on average.
My NB is now actively cooled with a Thermalright HR-05/IFX and an 80mm and never gets hotter than 37c+.

I've also moved from AS5 to MX-2 because of reading about generally favourable results online.
It was fairly liquidy, but I managed to spread it out evenly and thinly using a credit card; I'm pretty sure my application of the thermal paste is fine because I have done this on so many CPU's now and it seems only until I use the Maximus Formula I notice huge temp differences.