I had been reading more articles on various websites and came to the realization that perhaps the more important temperature to follow is the difference between the ambient and CPU temperatures verses the absolute CPU temperature. As of right now that difference is ~13-15C at idle, which appears to be the norm.

At that time, I had been looking at purchasing 2 SilenX 120x120x25mm IPX-74-14 fans to replace the 2 CoolerMaster R4-S2S-12AK-GP fans, this would increase inlet airflow from...

Alrighty then, I had completed the lapping (2 hours of work) and I could see my reflection in the now mirror like copper surfaces, especially after using the Final Polish Compound. I must say that I don't think I did that bad of a job considering it was my first time lapping a CPU cooler of any kind. Even though the coarse kit was included in my purchase, it wasn't need it since the surface wasn't that rough to start with.

Anyways, to the point, idle temperatures appeared to have...

I had set the NB frequency is set 2400MHz (2408.4MHz according to CPU-Z) and 2600MHz = BSOD, and everything else is either in auto or its default. The timings at 1337.8MHz (hmm, interesting number) were 6-6-6-18-24-2T per CPU-Z, with voltage set at 1.86V. All these timings were set manually in the BIOS, with the exception of the CR. The tRC was originally 34, but I tightened it to 24 to see what would happen, so far so good. All other memory settings are left in Auto. The FSB is still at 200 since...

This is mostly just a transfer of information I've already posted in other forums (1 2) to the blog here just to make things more easily accessible and centralized for me.

I'm just posting this as a kind of log as to what I'm doing so that others with similar setups may follow and hopefully not repeat any mistakes that I make. Any useful suggestions are always appreciated.

I'm running a AMD Phenom II x4 955BE on an ASUS M4A79T Deluxe (BIOS rev. 1103) with 8Gb of Mushkin...