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Ok i see you guy's struggling with the temperatures. Here are my results.
5 Day's old AS5 stock IHS:
Room Temperature 24,2c:
Core 0: 75c
Core 1: 84c
Core 2: 84c
Core 3: 78c
Package: 87c
2x MX4 Paste:
Room Temperature 24,2c:
Core 0: 63c
Core 1: 73c
Core 2: 73c
Core 3: 70c
Package: 75c
Profit...
As you can see here:
http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/grafikkarten/2011/test-amd-radeon-hd-6950-1.024-mb/22/#abschnitt_performancerating_ohne_aaaf
2GB does make a difference when you use 2560x1600 with at least 4x AA. With 8x AA the difference is even bigger.
That said i would not buy...
Well a Asus board blew up on me running everything but extreme settings. It also took a cpu with it. Then all kids of strange bios issues. On Both Asus and MSI board. (also heard reports on GA boards but i dont own one myself).
And then the B2 chipset bugs..... I have had 5 boards already. 2...
I have had random lockups/BSOD's some time ago. Even when running stock or default 1066 memory settings. The system could run well the whole day or could crash multiple times.
In my case it was the CPU. I swapped RAM and my Motherbord but that did not fix it. When i got my new 2600K all...