[pHaestus]

Bill's exactly right; wild goose chase fairly accurately describes this thread. I feel bad about wasting lots of Les's and incoherent's time because I had a problem with my data collection. On the other hand I have learned a good lesson, and my testing is better now than it was yesterday at this time.

If you are concerned this offset in temperature probes did NOT affect earlier waterblock tests that were posted; it was an issue with waterblock outlet temperature measurement and that wasn't used in those reviews.

//edit: Another good lesson; looks like my 8K3A socket lugs are a bit dogeared and that the MCW5000-A is a good bit better than the above results would indicate when extra care is taken in mounting.