[nikhsub1]

LMAO @ Orkan. It seems as if this whole discussion is upsetting you Orkan. This is how perhaps progress can be made in the world of testing WB's. Or not. Good dialogue for sure. Let me explain again, to you; the IHS issue at least with AMD and older northwood Intel CPU's. The IHS is affixed to the PCB of the chip, not to the core itself. You slide a blade round the IHS on an amd and whammo! the IHS will come off. This was also the case with the NW's of which I've owned many and have seen DRASTIC irregularities in temps between like CPU's with IHS on, however, pop it off and each CPU is well within what one would consider a 'normal' margin, ie they thermally behave very similar at similar speed and voltage. How could this possibly be?