Quote Originally Posted by neveroffline View Post
I know my HS's are making contact because how else would it boot and run at the same temps for a week plus the benchmarks? Really? Really, thats hilarious.

Thank you all for your responses but I'm still not willing to concede my HS's are not touching my CPU's correctly. That in itself is laughable after a week of benchmarks, etc. Like I said they are cool to the touch @ 100% load and nothing shuts off or down. Stock Cooling FTW.
By having enough contact to stay below the point at which the CPU downclocks or stalls itself to keep from overheating, of course. Its a feature of current Intel chips.

You should. It might be the HS's are concave or convex. It may also be that the IHS is not touching the CPU cores well.

Here's a 5340 that had poor core-ihs contact: http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.p...j1wdra&thumb=6