Quote Originally Posted by fallwind View Post
PWM's need active cooling when you are overclocking a quad. I don't buy boards without PWM heatsinks anymore, but in the past, I would just buy a pack of BGA RAMsinks and stick them all over the PWM's. Then apply airflow to the area and you're good to go!
I agree. I wouldn't get one of the smaller gigabyte boards (w/o heatsinks on the PWMs) either for that particular reason. My P55M-UD4 is holding up just fine even though I ran an x3450 @ 1,45V on it shortly - PWM sinks were getting pretty hot too, I can only imagine what happens to them if they don't have any sinks on them