Quote Originally Posted by Hor$eman View Post
It appears to me ******* has not changed his thermal paste, because he doubts it would make much difference.
With good reason. The outside of the heatsink was just marginaly lower than the internal readout, giving me a sign that the heatsinks were attached properly and the thermal pads were doing what they were designed to do: transfer that heat to the heatsink. If there was a big difference in temperature, this might have been caused by bad thermal pads/grease. My temperatures were about 75/65 C (internal bios readout / own external measurement). Using another thermal grease might have changed that with probably just a few degrees, and thus not worth the effort. The bigger problem was that I couldn't get a decent airflow on the chipset to get rid of that heat. Instead I just bought watercooling for everything which did help a lot.