Since you're discussing watercooling an i7 I might as well chime in here. I'm really in shock about those temps some people are reporting, 70°C and up on water?!? What could be the factor for that? I have two PA120.3 and an Fusion v2 (for which I'm still missing the 1366 mounting kit) waiting for the job, but I'm not so sure anymore that that is enough. Since the IHS on i7 are soldered I though that might ensure good heat transfer between core and IHS, so maybe the people reporting those bad temp just have really bad IHS? Or might it be a matter of mounting pressure? So if I lap that W3520, put Coollaboratory on as TIM and somehow manage to get higher mounting pressure, would I still be in for bad load temps? (btw, would it be better to get the D-Tek mounting kit or is something else more pratical to raise the pressure, if that's even needed)
Edit: Any thoughts on this batch btw: 3848A365 ?
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