[Sled_Dog]

well when I said my block is hot I didn't mean liek really hot. With my old watercooling setup on this same setup I accidentally turned the pump off and the chip hit 212F! This chip is an old AXIA Thunderbird 1000. I don't give a #$%* if it burns out, if it does its XP time. But I have been running for probably 4 days now like this. The block is higher then room temp prolly in the 100 something range. You can touch it and continue touching it for as long as you want it is not really hot at all. When I hit 212 the one time I couldn't touch the block for more then say 1 second. I will try and hunt down a thermometer and get a water temp. Don't have inline probes for that. I am using the On Board probe in my old ABIT KT7A. I am really starting to buy the Convection current theory. My radiator is a direct straight up line from the CPU outlet which is at a higher point on the block then the inlet. EXPERIMENT IDEA(since this seems to have turned from a funny thing into an experiment): I will turn my radiator fan off and see if the temp rises.