[Oli]

Dominatu, you are using the retention kit. Are you using the copper spacer as well? If not: did you anyway use the transparent washers delivered with retention kit? What if you removed those (replace them with washer made of paper) - this should definitely increase pressure.

The problem is: if you use those rather thick washers but do not use the copper spacer the pressure will be very small/low. Especially when the heatsink's socket and probabaly the CPU heatspreader aren't 100% even.

On the other hand I have to admit, that your stock (Intel boxed?) cooler performs VERY well. My experiences with the stock cooler supplied with my E6700 are much worse. My temps with this one were far away from 3X degrees and your quad core CPU gets even hotter than my dual core. So that's a perfect performance for the boxed cooler - and the boxed cooler uses pushpins which supply a rather good pressure.

The Mugen not getting warm could be another indicator for insufficient contact between cooler socket and CPU heatspreader. The heatpipes of Mugen should at least get warm - mine does never get really hot even under full load but rather warm.


Bye Oli