hmm and where's the part that's not getting a good thermal contact? I just kinda felt like jumping into this when I woke up.. 3mm shim's needed where? because it all seems like it's got good contacts between the fets and the bottom of the case.. i don't see it moving anywhere.. debating if I should just throw a heatsink on it, and see if it thermals, and worry about dissecting it later, if problems arise? I tried w/ a small flathead, but the dozen or so flatheads that are small enough, aren't long enough to reach the metal shim.. about 1mm too short =\

here's the heatsinks I've got at home.. there's an AMD Athlon stock HS on the left, and the rest are either older CPU heatsinks, or northbridge heatsinks.


and here's an old hard drive with some heatsinks.. I just think it's funny to have heatsinks on a 5400rpm hard drive lol


then i've got some old motherboards and videocards (tnt2's and voodoo3's) out in the garage, with a wide array of heatsinks.. if I need..
at my work, we've got alot of old computers, w/ a very diverse selection of heatsinks.. you should see how big the heatsinks are on some of the older servers.. oct-cpu servers and such have 6"x6"x4" or so heatsinks :)