i think i found the reason for the weird "downclocking" iīm experiencing when running prime95 for a few minutes.
itīs the mosfet/nb cooling...
even at 3.2ghz idling itīs getting so hot that u canīt really touch it.
just for fun i tried putting the stock amd coolerfan that came with my 9950 on the mosfet heatsink. that way i could pass 3dmark vantage runs at 3.4ghz without having those weird hiccups during the cpu-test (guess that was because of the "downclocking" when the mosfets or the nb exceeded a certain temp). that lil 90mm fan went up to 4900rpm during the benchmark so that heatpipe thing getīs really hot and i think i need to put it under water too.
iīm going to use a watercool sw-17 on the mosfets and nsb-3 on both the nb and sb. iīm hoping my 3x120mm rad can take all that heat (cpu,4870x2,mosfets,nb,sb).