Modified the motherboard today. CPU still works properly! Tried running some preliminary tests with a heatsink for giggles (and to write the progress thus far up as an article and came across something interesting:
Slick what resolution plus sampling rate can do, eh?
The data looks noisier than it actually is because the maxim software allows for 1/4Hz sampling but only adds timestamps with seconds. To further complicate matters, the software doesnt log successive points which do not differ to save space. The graph would improve in oscillatory pattern if I just set the reader to 1Hz sampling.
That is slick to see though isn't it? Now I wonder if I can see temp differences between "slowest ram timings and low fsb" and "most aggressive ram timings and high fsb" for same MHz?
CPUBurn is without these oscillations; much tighter loading.