I noticed something about the gold plated southbridge piece on the southbridge: it's just a cover for the heatpipes. I tried removing it so I can slap on a Thermalright hr-05 heatsink over the copper plate but ended up damaging one of the heatpipes. Now the board won't POST. I'm going to get a new one next week, lap the chipset cooler and try removing that gold cover on the southbridge again. If anyone has good suggestions on safely removing the southbridge covdmer, I'm all ears