Quote Originally Posted by rddave View Post
Hi All,
Just had the stock cooling of the MB, and yes the TIM is the same on mine as on others shown.
Also noticed that on the bottom of the stock metalwork on the screw holes that there is a little black plastic washer of ~1mm thick, do you think that removing them after reapplying TIM would get better cooling results on the stock cooler?
A few points to note here, does the Asus plastic washer insulate the board from the springs ? - probably not if Kimi's is still working.

Secondly, if the screw are designed to bottom out in the heatsink then removing the washers will not compress the springs as much causing a reduction in contact pressure between the heatpipe assembly and the NB & SB chips.

Just my thoughts but I added a second plastic washer to increase the spring pressure and to prevent the screws from bottoming out if indeed they do.