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I'm planning on using a 1.2/100. I talked to Iwill tech support about the gamepc article and they didn't think it made much sense. They also pointed out that it wasn't clear where he was getting his CPUs. Worst case I end up running at 1.2/100, no bad for $230.

Just got the Taisol CGK742096 from Nerdsbyte. It fits fine--about 1/2 inch to the nearest capacitor towards the back of the board and about 3/8 inch clearance to the front. The corner of the hsf comes quite close to the corner of the power supply socket but doesn't touch.

Haven't been there with this phase-change stuff. Probably its softer when warm so I'd run the PC for a few minutes to warm it up. Shut it off, release the clip holding the hsf to the socket and take the hsf/cpu off the board. This stuff is not an adhesive so the hsf should come off the cpu...

I stumbled across a review of the Iwill K266 that had beaucoups photos. One of the photos was of a Taisol hsf with a caption saying it fit the board with no problem. Sorry I would have posted the link but I couldn't get into anantech at that time and I lost it now. If you want to find it try a...

Don't believe it's a problem. Just ordered the board and a taisol so I'll know for sure next week.