I'm using my first Gigabyte MB for my 9550.

Now remember, I haven't done (or feel like right now) any indepth poking around yet.

The Nvidia chipset heatsink is REALLY HOT (60 C). I don't know why I checked it, but there you go.... Anyway, I had a small fan in the (what else?) Junk Drawer, So I threw that on, and got the temps down to 40-42 C.

And for the Million Dollar question...Is this normal?

Picture of heatsink link (bottom of page).

http://www.overclockersclub.com/revi...m78sms2h/2.htm