per jessen ueecomputerorg aaron kulkis wrote per jessen wrote peter nikolic wrote made certain good thermal connection cpu heatsink far im using thermal material attached heatsink ive made sure cpu heatsink seated properly also cputemperature rarely exceeds 65c case probably north bridge getting hot zalman nice north bridge heat sink think might well right nb cooled heatpipes large heatsink httpjessenchfilesmotherboard_productimage_gama790fxds5_bigjpg nb sat cpu blue pcie slot coppercoloured heatpipesink top afaics really meant augmented additional fans etc ill ask gigabyte coolingsituation per jessen zürich wed 06 aug 2008 121155 0100 opensuse ot much power pc really consume