Any other guides, tips, pointers, that you know of?
That was a very good video. One thing I would like to point out is on the heat sink/fan assembly at the bottom where it connects into the mother board. There is a little plastic white pin that splits in two. Be very careful when inserting them into the board they can spread apart very easily and not go in properly. I just helped a guy who had a warranty motherboard replacement and afterward his system kept crashing and it destroyed his Vista installation. He asked me to take a look at it. I checked his temps. He was running at over 90C. I checked the heat sink and they did not install it correctly. One of the little plastic pins spread apart and did not firmly seat into the board. It was very tricky to get them all in. Good thing it was brand new he did not loose much.
On first install, boot into BIOS, showed CPU 33 MB 28. Then still sitting there, after a while, they climbed to around 39. Left overnight, in the morning, BIOS showed around 33.
Installed Speedfan. Same temps, CPU/MB, but in addition it showed Core 0/1 low 30's.
Left at idle for a while. Temp showed low to mid 30's. Core showed low 20's.
Everest Stability Test. Core 32/31 range. Temp started 33 range, but after a few minutes, jumped to 127. And stayed there for a long while. Eventually MB came back down to 33, but CPU flatlined at 127. Ran like that for about 45 minutes. (The 127 had to have been a fluke.)
Rebooted. BIOS showed CPU 38, MB 33.
Restarted Everest Stability Test. Same time "running" an A/V scan (MWAV). Core 32/31 range. Temp 33 range & steady for the past hour+.
At the same time, Core Temp is showing Core at 48, steady. Seems to be my peak. (Mild temperatures here, about 68 F.)
(Everest version used was older, so perhaps a current version would show Core more accurately?)
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