Quote Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue View Post
i'm not sure myself...i will yank the HS to see how the thermal paste is spread...i had to yank one time before since i did not put enough...i am going to have to pull the board out of the case and set it up on my bench to further evaluate...i'm guessing that the IHS is not flat or is close to it.
IHS looked fairly flat....it's just the cores running in pairs have a large displacement in temps ...the replacement 9650, under idle conditions with the Freezone Elite, cortemp is showing core #0 & 1 at 43C and core #2 & 3 at 36C