Good 1156 mobos that aren't expensive?

[brencat]

Is that the idle of the chip at stock speeds? I have the power saving features active on my mobo which drops the multi and gives me a normal speed of about 2Ghz at a temp of 33C. When I encode video, it jumps up to about 68C. I've reseated it several times and use a thin layer of Artic Silver 5 and the temps stay about the same. How do you apply your TIM? I'm thinking of ordering the Thermaltake Frio and trying that out.

Yep, 30C idle on mine is with EIST enabled, but all C-states disabled. System drops to 9 x 200 @ 0.96 vcore when not under load.

In terms of applying the TIM, I put a very thin vertical line of AS5 on the chip, AND also on the bottom of the heatsink -- you need to fill in the cracks of where the heatpipes make contact with the metal that separates them. Spread it super thin with a credit card edge so there's no clumping in there.