Well, this doesn't make sense. I just insulated the socket with paste. Before the core temp would never move from 0C, but now its sitting at 2-3C. I'm thinking that the paste needs to set on top of the cpu, or I didn't get enough on the cpu itself. Socket temp according to speedfan is the same as it was. Maybe it needs to cure or something, I don't know, but I don't like it.

I'm also retrying 256x16 @ 1.575v right now. Core 2 gave me an error after 1:04 so I'm hoping that it was because I hadn't insulated.

@chew - The number was 154, so its not a cherry chip, but its also not like one of my 3xx ones that I have sitting around of other cpu's. Should be pretty good.