I recommend that DQ6 owners remove their heat-pipe system and apply some Arctic Ceramique. I did this about two weeks ago, and after removing the heat-pipe system I saw that the thermal pads for the mosfet sinks were making no contact with the thermal tape at all (the thermal tape was smooth). So I added some ceramique, but I also saw how someone in the Abit P35 thread bolted their heatsinks down, and I did the same for the mosfet sinks on the DQ6. So I hope what I did has helped... I think it did... Over the summer the lowest load Vcore load I could run 3.6GHz was 1.35-1.36V, and now 1.32-1.33V... I just wish Gigabyte had some NB and PWM temp sensors.