I've actually never measured the temperature in this room, but its nowhere near hot in here. I have two HUGE windows with a nice draft every now and then. My old willamette used to run at about 40 degrees at idle, and 45-50 degrees under load in this same exact setup. The environment seems okay.

What i did do is use the same thermal grease i had left over from about 1.5 years ago when i installed this heatsink on my old 1.8ghz willamette cpu. Could this be whats making my cpu run so hot?

Right now, 3.0E is idling at 53-54 degrees celcius but during doom 3 (yeah i downloaded it for free :-D) i can catch the cpu running at near 79-80 degrees. This cpu isn't even a week old...

Do you guys know if stores like comp usa sell thermal grease? Thanks again

munchy1988, where can i download this mbm 5?