Thermal paste: Arctic Silver V
Fan: BIOS driven, I think it runs 1200rpm (120mm fan) + the rear exhaust fan which is about 2 inches from the heatsink is a new Scythe S-FLEX SFF21F 64cfm fan.

I do not like the SCINF-1000 Mugen's locking clips, I don't have a good feeling they are "secure". I would have preferred a backplate with screws. It came with a Air Flow: 46.5CFM fan.

My guess is a very thin copper plate would be best to get the cooler from sitting on the choke coil blocks too. It looks like a good fit, but my guess is it is marginal - working, but not as good as it could be. The bottom of the SCINF-1000 is huge for compatibility with lots of CPUs.