Dude I NEVER said there was no thermal paste
I removed the Coolermaster V8 from the Intel Core i7 875k, and then I applied the H70
Then, the temperatures were not satisfying, so I add another fan to my setup, and I had to remove the Corsair and place it again
at that time, I saw the thermal paste was not 100%, so I thought to myself
"Let's boot and see the temperatures"
So I boot, temperatures were high, 60C
then, I run Prime95
Temperatures went to 80C, 85C, 90C, 94C
that all happened like in 6 seconds
At that time I just turned off the PC from the switch
I use Everest, and I have Logitech G19 keyboard, so I ALWAYS monitor my CPU temperature
Now, regarding your post, are those stock speeds?
I would REALLY like to see a comparison like that (thanks for the link) but with overclocked CPUs
I had a bad experience with AMD, bought the 1055T in the summer, it was SLOOOW on games
I pumped up the voltage, removed Turbo... and man that thing was flying @ 4.0Ghz
so I know AMD sucks because their Turbo is in baby steps and quite honestly it's horrible
But if you manually overclock it it rocks
Anyway, I don't think I'm going to change now unless I can smoothly transition from my Intel Core i7 875k to AMD Phenom II X6 1090T without spending a penny.
I already have a nice motherboard (MSI Big Bang Fuzion), nice water cooling (H70), nice thermal paste (diamond), and a nice CPU @ 4.1Ghz
This whole issue started with my RAM, I'm glad I'm finally running 8Ghz.
It was a true pain in the ass with my previous mobo
The other problem was that I had no idea what Double Channel RAM is