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Have 4 computers hooked up to my home network. I am trying to make all the computers go on standby to save power and enable wake on lan to wake them back up when I need to access there HDD's from another computer. However when I click on My Networks I get a long delay with the flashlight icon...

Tiamat, Yah the heatsink spread out the AS5 pretty well. I am pretty sure there is good contact, cause I really have to press the sucker down. Also when I reseated it the bottom of the heatsink I noticed the edges of the die scratched it, so there is a nice little outline. It must have...

THe portion of the base over the die that I can actually reach and feel does not feel warm at all. I used an infra red temp gun to check it out and it is reading 30-32c on the exposed corner of the heatsinks base. Could the board really be that wrong?

sorry typo, supposed to be F

I must have reseated this heatsink like 5 times and I keep getting high idle temps of 48c. Ambient room temps are 73-75c and the mobo is 23c. I tried every method of applying the AS5 I am using, real thin with a razor, a tiny bead, etc. I even used articlean to clean the surface of the...