Yeah the chokes at the CPU socket run hot, can't leave you finger on them for more than a second or two. Would like someone with an IR temp gun to get some temps. I wasn't planning to run 1000KHz PWM freq, I saw what that did with the Classifieds in terms of temps, 500KHz seems fine and is giving better results than the full analogue PWM on the R2E.
Running an 980x at 4.1 Ghz and 1.3v results in cool chokes, that's with the machine crunching 24/7 and all cores fully loaded. Using an IR gun the temps are between 31c and 38c depending on the choke.