This is cool

[sethipus]

Out of curiosity, are you planning to overclock the crap out of this thing?  Or are you just trying to achieve lower temperatures for your cpu as an end unto itself?  I only ask because the cpus are designed to work within certain temperature thresholds, and unless you're overclocking the crap out of it, there's really nothing to be gained by dropping your cpu temperature 10 degrees for normal use.

[BaldEagl]

Out of curiosity, are you planning to overclock the crap out of this thing?  Or are you just trying to achieve lower temperatures for your cpu as an end unto itself?  I only ask because the cpus are designed to work within certain temperature thresholds, and unless you're overclocking the crap out of it, there's really nothing to be gained by dropping your cpu temperature 10 degrees for normal use.

I had it OC'd from 2.66 to 3.2 Ghz on stock air running 60C steady at load on the stock Intel HSF.  Then I decided to try to re-seat the HSF to see if I could bring those temps down.  It turned out I couldn't, and in fact they went up to about 70C (+).  I tried re-seating it about 5 times until I gave up and lowered the clocks back to stock and got it running steady at 60C load again.

So I was bummed at losing my OC and ordered the new HSF.

Now I'm not sure if I'll OC it again or not.  I really do like that it's running so cool.  Time will tell but for now I'm leaning toward leaving it alone.