Quote Originally Posted by iocedmyself View Post
That is hot.

These chips run very very cool. Which heatsink are you using again? I'll take the odds on a heatpipe cooler of some sort. Heatpipe's are great, and can really give some serious cooling...

however

heatpipes work by evaporating liquid that travels UP the HP, being cooled by the fins until it returns to it's original state and starts the process over again.

Great idea, very effective...unless you have a tower case....meaning the heatpipes will be horizontal to the cpu surface preventing that liquid from coming in contact with the cpu....because heat, and things like evaporating liquid vapors travel vertically....not to the right. I'm sure many people realize this, and think it to obvious to bother mentioning...which makes me think it the possible cause of all these toasty Denebs.
No wasn't been a problem for me it worked well on my 9850. I've got a volcano one in 64 bit.( it's hit 78C)
My heat sink isn't getting very warm at all. example the I've had 9850 at 60-70C that got the heat sink up to 41C, I've yet to see this thing go past 33C on my heat sink temperature probes.
Idle in bios was reading 40-43C at the same settings.

I know it's mounted good it's sunbeam CCF, with ultra kaze 3,000 on it