I just got this in Friday, installed it and thanks to the the "claw of death" (i.e., the stock Intel fan and heatsink), my mobo was bent enough that the Volcano's heatsink would only make full contact when my case was laying on its side. The bottom made contact but the top would pull away from the CPU slightly, to where I got upwards of 72C on boot up. Ugh.
I can't get a replacement mobo, so I'm just going to sell this damned thing and forget it. I would just return it for credit, but the place I bought it from has a 20% restocking fee, and of course I can't be refunded the shipping cost. That's what I get for being hasty. Anyway, I'll send it in the original packaging, all screws, the unopened compound that's provided with it and I'll even give you a slightly-used tube of Arctic Silver III for free...oh, and the slightly-AS-stained instruction manual as well. Thanks.
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