Quote Originally Posted by mad_skills View Post
Adding a good thermal compound (MX-2, AS5) would also help a lot.
That's what I did in the pictures above, removerd everything, cleaned with arcticlean and replaced tim with Shin Etsu TIM. I did get 4c lower cpu, 7c lower PWM and 6c lower NB temps.

The thing that skews the temp data I got is that the screws on the NB sink weren't tight when I did the tests at first. Once I added new paste and tightened NB sink I got two great things - better temps and clearance to put the Ultra 120 vertical.