Now my quad hates me :(

[Falkentyne]

Hey Agent,
I think you can take the motherboard out of the case and have it back in in 15 minutes. It's actually alot faster than you may remember, and always faster than your first time doing it.

Unplugging all the cards takes about 2 minutes.
unscrewing the screws takes about 2 minutes.
Then remove the case jumpers, IDE and SATA and ur done

Just gota unmount the HS, clean surface and IHS with alcohol, (which takes longer than removing the motherboard), then remount and put everythinig back in.

I hate removing the motherboard too, but that's only because (1) i'm lazy and (2) i'm paranoid about something dying in the process. But when I actually -start- doing it, it's not so bad

The worst thing I've ever had happen is 2 things:
1) board failed to POST. This was from dying D9 RAM and I didn't know it at the time. (would RESET or warm boot forever perfectly, but after a power off for more than a few seconds...); the first time this happened, I actually thought it was the CPU or board dead. I even swapped BIOS chips with a new 1.04g board (at the time) with my 1.02 (i was using an X6800 then), and it still didnt work, so I knew both boards weren't dead. When I went to mwave and had them test the CPU and memory, they determined the RAM was dead. Before that happened I never knew about RAM causing a board not to POST (always thought you would hear beeps). Live and learn....

2) Board failed to POST. That was cuz i unlatched the QX9650 on my P5WDH; and for some reason, you have to clear CMOS to make the board POST again. (thanks to a buried post about someone mentioning removing CPU/clearing CMOS years ago with this particular board).

Anyway, I think your high temps are from the TIM compound degrading or a problem with the HS (dust or something wrong with heatpipes). I've heard posts about people having to reapply arctic silver after 6 months to a year because of higher temps. Note that disturbing a heatsink after compound has been on this long, can adversely affect temps instantly. Or perhaps something is wrong with the HS itself....