thermal paste testing is a nightmare.... I will give it a shot though. It is unfortunate that a few of these pastes "cure" over a few days, so both short term and long term testing has to be done. The heatsink has to be lapped between applications, and several replicates have to be done. There can be large differences in temp depending on how well the thermal paste is applied (hopefully the replicates pick that up).
My Asus mobo is acting up something awful as well with the XP. I have heard that there is a beta bios that might let me overclock via fsb again with it; I need to see if I can do anything else to get it running properly. Otherwise I might also need to pick up a mobo as well :/
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