Favu - yea, I'm!
But it feels so good...
And you are right. People went downright lazy. Time to shake the grounds a little
Áedán - you are right, except one thing. The mobo did not work with the specs. The machine crashed after like 8h of folding. With 7V 120mm fan blowing the air directly to the NB it can last like 12 - 13h, but still crash. Now it is running for 15h straight and no sign or weakness
I running not at 200Mhz (x12.5) so 1.6V - lowest possible settings.
I must say the heatsink was used to be kinda cold. I say very cold, despite the Arctic Silver 3 and two screws, that tightly holding it to (okay, to most of it, 60 - 70% for sure) the chip.
Now the heatsink is pretty heated up! Definitively not bellow room temp (25°C) as before! 26°C now, gotta check temp... 47 - 49°C, depend on fin. That is at least 20°C difference now...
So, the bad shape of my chipset caused me endless suffering and a lot's of problems. So IMHO nVidia failed badly.
Futhermore I get slight suspiction that they might used the plastic, because it is not only cheaper, but make the heatsinks - colder! And they perhaps want that, since at the nF2 times the chipsets aren't used to enerate that much heat, so to not scare ppls and save bucks - they simply used the plastic, that "fake" the real temperature at the expense of the core is getting hard beating with overheating...
And, of course, limited performance.