Thermalright Sk6 not sitting on CPU correctly?

[AnthonyM]

I just bought an ABIT KT7a, an athalon 1333 266 AYHJA.... and a thermalright sk6, coupled with a 7K delta....

The first time I put this combo together I was not impressed with the temps... the chip was running between 125 and 130 under full load... with a case temp in the high 80's

I couldn't over clock past 1466 (11x133) and even that became unstable I ended up at stock speed (10x133)

my roomate has a AVIA 1133 266 Athalon so we decided to switch chips to see if he could get higher... he had no stabality issues at 1466 and the temp was about the same and he was running an ORB on it!!!!!!!!

The real problem came when I put my system back together... the temp in BIOS went thru the roof, 150+.... miffed I pulled it back apart, reaplied the artic silver and tried again, still temp climbled steadly to 130+ in bios... at this point the case was on its side so I pressed down HARD on the four corners of the delta.... the tempature started dropping in 5 degree jumps....once I stopped applying pressure the tempature rose again... should I remove the "feet" on the T-bird? has anyone else had this problem?

 

[mothman]

The "feet" on the T-bird are there to help steady the heatsink while
your installing it. If you remove them you increase your chances
of damaging you cpu core.
I don't think they are you problem anyway. They are very soft
and shouldn't prevent the heatsink from touching the core.
I would look elsewhere for your problem:
Too much heatsink compound
Improper mounting of the hsf
Interference with components on the motherboard
Even possibly something wrong with the heatsink, distorted, warped, etc..