Wow !! - away 1 day and the posts go crazy good to see this board becoming more popular.

Well I have my heat pipe assy off the mobo and what I thought was 7g of Arctic Silver 5 is actually AS thermal adhesive part B which I have been sent by mistake . Need to order AS5 and new thermal pads for delivery Tuesday so been grouting the bathroom instead.

@EF - lovely build mate, must have large M/B stand offs to fit passive H/S to underside of M/B hence my question about case.

@3oh6 - good to see you back, are those long days regular for you ?.

@Maxxx - any pics of what you did with plastic washers when putting the heat pipe asembly back on the board ?.

@MikeMK- how are you getting on with the PI sticks ?.

@NiscoRacing - still nowhere near 500, not even 450, pulled the board apart to apply AS to NB and SB.

Looks like anyone thinking of buying this board NEEDS to apply a better quality thermal paste than what Asus has used which is holding this board back badly.

Thinking of using the thermal sensors on CPU, NB & SB when I put mine back together.

Is HyperPi on all 4 cores too much of a stability test ?, I mean in what real life app or game will load the computer up as heavily ?. Would be good for us all to use the same monitoring and stability testing S/W so that all our results are comparable .........