Pics? :D

Yea I gotta see that one! That's like almost a 10c reduction. Thats epic

Nice :)

jrmitchell1983

will give it a shot. what kind of thermal tape did you use?

I purchased a while ago, I think it was Sekisui. You can find it on Ebay and I think Radio Shack carries it also. A non-permanent but firm bond. 

Thanks Inoxim-NorCal , I hope this helps anyone else that's been frustrated with VREG temps. The combo of heatsinks and fan seems to make a huge dent in temps. It's nice to finally see temps in the 40's on this board!

Nice job Sighrus   

Mabey one of the Mods could start a  " Macgyver of the Week"  section  

From reading the initial post, I have to believe that you had some sort of a contact issue that was contributing to the problem.  If you have decent contact between the the heatsink and the chip, a small fan usually provides significant results where yours were barely measurable.    It is possible that you improved the contact between the factory heatsink and the chips when you installed the copper heatsink.  I cannot see where that sink alone would give that kind of result, particularly when the fan did almost nothing with a much larger heatsink.

Glad that it worked out for you, in either case.

SkullCracker

I just found this post as I was looking for a fix and glad I came across it. My temp @ idle is 55c with no OC. To me that is just insane and while in game it hits 60c- 65C. But what gets me is that that little heat sink does the job better then what comes on this board. And question and I would assume this would work.
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/5557/vid-86/Swiftech_MC21_Aluminum_MOSFET_Heatsinks_-_4_pack.html?tl=g40c21s226

Not sure what size heat sink your using and do you think those are long enough. I know these cost more but I don't care.

Those look fine. I actually have 2 similar sized small heatsinks side by side  on mine, it's hard to tell from the pics. Good luck and let us know if you have the same results.

I would like to know as well. I'm having VREG Temp issues like many others. Currently stuck at 3.8Ghz, with VTT @ + 275mV, and idling VREG @ 62-65C!! :-O
I should add that I'm corsair H50 cooled so I Don't benefit from massive airflow around the CPU socket area like others. I do have my blowhole fan pointing inward however...seems to help not a lot.

Do small copper heatsinks really make that much of a difference? Has anyone else tried this? I've ordered the heatsinks, but have not heard back from the seller yet...     

adding the sinks to the top of that plate would make me think the actual hsf itself isn't functioning correctly.. the heatpipes can't be pulling much heat away if a small memory heatsink is pulling more out than they are

Alright.

To all those who were waiting to see if this simple fix would work:

I got some copper heatsinks with paper thin Thermal tape and applied it to the base of the VREG heatsink. As expected, No effect.
I am still idling at about 65C, and under load (Unreal Tournament 3) I'm @ 85C. My VTT is at 1.35V (+250mv) and my PWM is 800Khz.

Did I just get unlucky? Cause that sucks! This is the second board I've bought for my i7 (First one was an MSI Pro-E) and there still this problem. :(     

Oh wow. I think I found part of the problem...

In bios I have my CPU VTT at +250mv, which should put my actual voltage @ 1.1V + .250V = 1.35V, correct?

Then why is E-leet reporting a CPU VTT of 1.46!!!! whoa!

I've artificially lowered the CPU VTT via E-leet to +.125mV (which reads as 1.225V in the voltages tab), and this is reporting from the voltage sensor as 1.35V in E-leet, which is equivalent now to my original +.250mV! I have the same problem with my VDIMM as well. I have it set to 1.625, and it's reporting via the sensor at 1.66V. 
(I have Vdroop ON).

I'm running Prime95 right now just to make sure that it's stable, and now my VREG is maxing at 73C, MUCH improved over 85C, but still not that great.

I urge anyone with this problem to check the voltages that E-leet is reporting and adjust and retest accordingly...still not happy, but at least now I'm not quite thinking about an RMA...

No, in the pic just to the right of the vreg is a 120 fan mounted on the bench which is blowing towards the gpu.
 
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/540/015ymc.jpg

Hey, all.  I recently had to remount my cpu cooler, so I decided that I would give this a try.  I mounted 2 Vizo copper heatsinks (Model CPS-22) to the VREG heatsink just as sighrus did.  They made no difference whatsoever in my temps.  What did help my temps slightly, was mounting 2 40mm fans to the VREG heatsink.  I just zip tied the fans together and mounted them with two-sided tape.  This brought my idle temps down 4º C (58º C to 54º C), but made no difference on my Intel Burn Test load temp of 71º C.  My ambient temperature was always 22º C.  I wonder if sighrus tested under the same ambient temperature before and after.  IMHO, I believe that a fan(s) on the heatsink is the best option - the bigger the better.