Quote Originally Posted by flylow View Post
Improving the contact of the Northbridge seems to actually transmit additional heat through the heatpipe to the Southbridge. So I do not think that one can assume the as5 is not better than the OEM TIM.
well yes this was my conclusion also ;> Probably compounded with the fact i run 1.53V on my NB and 1.125V on my SB. Yeah, but the extra transfer to the SB heatpipe assy is phenomenal. It's amazing how poor the OE TIM on the NB really is. The heatpipe assy overall is decent to say the least, and works effectively when a good TIM is applied properly. WIth 40mm fans on the NB and SB my temps run around 32-35c on both NB/SB. I couldn't be happier with those results. The SB fan had to be fixed with double sided tape to the tops of the heat pins, offset to miss my GPU!