Just went commando a week ago & started ocing in earnest, last few days. Have been concerned about my temps, so decided to re-check cpu mounting/pasting yesterday.
On removing heatsink was struck by the fact that the heatsink had paste on both sides but none across the centre zone. On checking out the mounting the load plate appeared slightly bent, so was higher at the opening end. Unclipped it & it is now straighter, repasted & reassembled but no difference in temps.
Only thing i can think's happened is i've overtightened the spring loaded screws on the thermalright ultra (somethinhg i thought that was prevented by having spring loaded screws. Is it possible to get a new load plate from anywhere, they look as if they are standard to 775 socket so not mobo dependent??
thanks