Yep, if you read through, you'll see that I cleaned and used Ceramique. So all these temps are with *good* heatsink contact. I highly recommend cleaning the heatsinks on the P5B -- the existing thermal pads are crap, and mine were only making partial contact anyway.wumpus, did you check what kind thermal paste there was under northbridge heatsink when changing it?
But the VRM heatsink never gets all that warm. At least mine never did. The actual heatsink would be pushing 80c and the VRM heatsink, which is connected by a heatpipe to the heatsink, was relatively cool to the touch. Hmm. I wonder if the heatpipe is just plain defective.a good idea to stick the squirrel cage fan onto the VRM heatsink, even though it says not to unless using a passive heatsink or watercooling
It's funny because the items the VRM heatsink is touching-- the small black thingies by the cpu socket*-- do not get all that hot. It's the much larger black square thingies* nearby that get hot. I put some Iceberq VGA copper heatsinks on those.
* pardon my ignorance..