Quote Originally Posted by OC Nub View Post
Yours may be different but I have had this same issue on several 45nm quads. I don't even look at the cores anymore, just CPU temp. I have reseated the HS before, on this reseated the waterblock but same results. On my other q9650 I lapped the chip and the TRUE and was able to even them out a bit but never perfect. Look at maximum temps in RealTemp in this SS, it is not just at idle.
So you are seeing about 6C difference as well. I like that answer because it means I'm not tearing apart my setup to reseat the heatsink

I have sort of an internal gut feel that I don't like to see my cores over about 65C max with Prime95 small FFT. What sort of max temp do you reckon for CPU temp? I assume CPU temp is a calculation done by the motherboard to approximate the IHS case temp?