[pHaestus]

God my head hurts and not from drinking (this time).

So what do the experts suggest that I do? Testing with IHS seems impossible on AMD, and testing Intel CPUs seems like a pretty large cash investment and will leave me with ONLY CPU case temps. Die sims are not esp attractive to me as I really like the chance to evaluate mounting issues and cooling of real CPUs.

Sometimes I think I should just stick with the damn Socket A CPU and avoid all of this!