Reasons to not buy a CPU

[AmiGR]

I've got a ThunderBird 1.4 over here, had to install
a water cooling system, as it got up to 68C, no matter
which cooler I tried, even fop38. I got a ThermalTake
Aquarious II and it's now down to 33idle, 37full load +
5 if the ambient temp rises a lot.
The "fridge" that cools the water is a really nice heater:-)

[AmiGR]

Ehm, I always use high quality thermal compound:-)
Anyway, that is to be expected by a cpu that consumes almost 80Watts...
The heat was transfered fine to the heatsink, it was
VERY hot, even when I installed 3 cpu fans... Watercooling worked though...

PS: The same coolers I used on the Thunderbird
are now in use on AthlonXPs and they get normal
temps...