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We have success! Thanks to all your help, I'm now idling at 33-35c and running 51-52c under load.
A couple interesting observations on this: I think part of my problem before was that the heat sink wasn't properly seated on the cpu. Part of what makes me think this is that my case temp is up slightly now -- likely because the heat sink is throwing off more heat now that it's working. Also, my mobo is pretty bowed now (which is a similar situation to another thread on another forum I had been reading up on -- an ASUS s775 mobo with an overheating Prescott, which was resolved when the HSF was properly attached, but resulted in the mobo bowing) -- my mobo has bent so much that the I/O ports aren't perfectly straight in the back of the case anymore.
However, it's working well, nice & cool, and that's really what I was after all along.
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