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Well if your chip has a bad IHS (Read: not completely flat) then whatever cooler you use, it doesnt help.
Take my case for instance,
I have 2 chips, E8400 ( Golden) and E8500
E8500 suffers from this problem, with TRUE and NMB 120mm fan on my bench pad(Outside Cabinet) idle temps are 40-42C and under load goes to 52C (stock speed)
Right now i am using the E8500 in my home PC with stock Intel cooler and at stock it idles at around 50C
Whereas my E8400 does 24C under TRUE +NMB 120mm at 4GHz and full load temp goes to 35C
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Well if its a problem with the IHS a new cooler wont help much but there is always the sollution of lapping it [lapping=sanding the IHS right off the procy]...but this will void ur warranty and its quite risky..And Darky those are very good temps for the E8400 and TRUE...did u lap? What are ur ambients?
My Q66003.0Ghz+TRUE+120mm fan does 36C at idle and 52~55 at full load with ambient of 30C which is on the high side..