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Your score is fine, the main factor of your GB3 score is lower than the others because you used the 32bit version, the others used 64bit. Of course the RAM speed and config will affect the score as well. But both the GB version and RAM config has almost zero effect on real world applications performance.

By the way, what I notice is that your Northbridge temperature is quit high. Even though I am with the single processor model, the Northbridge heatsink is more or less the same. So, the temperature should be more or less the same as well.

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As you can see, my system ambient also 32C, but the Northbridge only at 59C, and yours are at 79C. By considering you just finish the CPU upgrade, the north bridge heat sink should be very clean. And your booster fan already working at the ~1150RPM range. You may have to pay some attention on it. High north bridge temperature may cause instability.

Besides, it seems you are running a PC GPU. You better try to stress it a bit after boot (e.g. Run Luxmark for 10 seconds). The PCIe and PSU fan should go back to idle after that. If the fans stuck at these "high" RPM. You should perform a SMC reset. Or check if your GPU is running hot.

Last but not least, from your PSU 1 and PSU 2 temperature. I suspect there is quite a bit of dust inside the PSU, you may consider blow them away when you open up your Mac next time.
 
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i was thinking of reapplying the thermal paste again. Possible I did not apply it correctly or possible apply more than what I am suppose to.
 
i was thinking of reapplying the thermal paste again. Possible I did not apply it correctly or possible apply more than what I am suppose to.

You CPU temperature actually looks OK to me. And from my experience, unless you do it really wrong. In most case, the cooling performance is <3 degree difference between "normal" thermal paste application and a really good one. Even though you only post the idle temperature. By considering the temperature difference is so small between the CPU core and heat sink. I think you actually did a good job on thermal paste application.
 
okay. So far so good with the mac pro. The only pending is memory. As of now I am only using 12GB stock mac memory. I have 16 gb available and I was going to put them in the mac it freezes during the boot screen. Possible not matching, It would have been like these 4 x 4GB and 4X2GB of DDR3 1333 but it freezes on that combination. Also the Geekbench will not even pick up the memory frequency. So I planning to invest on new memories. possible 2X16Gb or 4 X8GB. any advice.
 
okay. So far so good with the mac pro. The only pending is memory. As of now I am only using 12GB stock mac memory. I have 16 gb available and I was going to put them in the mac it freezes during the boot screen. Possible not matching, It would have been like these 4 x 4GB and 4X2GB of DDR3 1333 but it freezes on that combination. Also the Geekbench will not even pick up the memory frequency. So I planning to invest on new memories. possible 2X16Gb or 4 X8GB. any advice.

For dual CPU option, I think 4x8GB is a good move. The 8GB serve pulled sticks are so cheap, and they work extremely well in the cMP. Just make sure you get the correct spec (especially the ranking is 2Rx4), then you are good to go.
 
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