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You made me literally LOL there. Thx.
I have done this for my 1st -3rd benching runs that all have lasted over 9+ hrs. Now that I think about it, I should take that OATH as I'm flirting with Burnt Electronics doing this. I do have my camera ready, just in case, for that Memorex Moment
I have only stopped the benching runs because everything stopped wanting to cooperate
The CPU would no longer hit the same Freq/Volt as when I started
The Memory would would no longer hit the same Freq/Volt as when I started
The F1 would no longer hold the CPU @ -XXc as when I started
Which if you think about it makes even less sense. If you were not getting good contact, you do not have as much heatload so temperatures should stay lower/at its lowest. The shouldn't be a temperature creep up when the CPU is on idle. I'm not sure the issue is with the mount so much as it is the use of DI and the alcohol.... OR the probe not being mounted properly.This is referring to my earlier statement about having the foam around the F1 to long. The bottom of the F1 would not properly seat on the CPU, it would hit only 1/2 or less of the IHS when the hold down plate was tightened
The 1st and 2nd runs where with it taped on the side near the bottom. For some reason AISuit will not give a temp for my CPU or motherboard ( once the temps drop below +5c ) unless I have the probe plugged into one of the temp sensors??? On my 3rd run, I had the probe sitting on top of the CPU with the F1 on top of it. I was good for about ~ 10 hours and then all of a sudden AISuit is reporting that my board is over 35c and my CPU temp ( which 10 minutes before was at -27c before running WPrime 1024) is @ -3c. The temps did not want to drop below -10c no matter how much DICE I added or IPA?????
Nothing wrong with 2 Fx 8350's unless you're just looking for points on the 8320.
The wife asked me if I was going to upgrade my son's computer with it. I told her that I was looking to put it on e-bay for $130 for some extra cash for benching. His current setup (that I have borrowed for benching) is a Gigabyte 790FXTA-UD5 with a PII 1100t. Until I get my mounting problem fixed, I'm not sure when I will give it back With my mounting problem, I do not feel like I got every drop that the CPU could give me. Maybe I did maybe I didn't, Bones said that my runs with it where in line with what he got from his. I just feel that it had some more to give if tweeked properly.
Mount the pot make sure the tim is spread evenly and well, if it is then you're good to go. Personally, I would get a better temp probe. This way at least you'll know when you're at your coldest temps. I find, especially with my AMD chips that unless I run a particular chip multiple times, I really do not get a feel for what it likes. I said this previously but it did seem as if your 1100t really needed a lot of voltage for the overclocks you were achieving. It is possible that if you weren't getting a good mount, that you may be able to get the same clocks at less voltage and of get higher clocks at the same volts. Then again it could just be a voltage pig of a chip.
I did some benching yesterday (I put dielectric in the CPU socket and all 4 Memory slots) and was able to hit 6.0 GHz with the second FX-8350 from AMD I know it's a cheap probe but I was able to get to -30c for my validation @ 6.0. I switched to two (2) cores for my runs in Super Pi. When I started Super PI 32m I was @ -30c and watched it drop to -8c (this is with me stirring the DICE to try to keep computer from crashing) by the end of the run I could get the temps to -20c to -25c but as soon as I started a run, the temps would start to rise 
