Quote Originally Posted by Philly_Boy View Post

I tried the finger poke mod that Viper John said and dang if I couldn't reduce my SB temps from 81c in BIOS to 68c just by pushing on the heat pipe cooling solution above the SB chip. I had already re-TIM'ed the mosfets, SB, and NB chips. Someone should write this up and get it stickied...13c improvement just by shaving the foam around the SB cooler. Remarkable...
I bet when you trim the foam surrounds down you MCP temps will drop down to around
45C or so...assuming 1.50V MCP volts which is all ya need. That is what my MCP ran
after I did the foam trim and remount thing with the stock cooler and before I yanked
it off completely.

Viper