" Unsure how this will affect the whole cooling process?  I mean, it's there, it's blowing, but it's not levered down."

 

then it's not cooling properly. you need good contact between the CPU and the heatsink block.

 

as to the "the latest six-core cpu since "no software exists that will use it right now.""

 

yeah right. poser 8 will use all those cores....

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