You must be doing it wrong mate.
875/1225/lowest fan/stock v/highest temp in summer room...sub 60 (stable all day long in bf2 and napoleon). Can get to 885/1250/low/stock-just dont need the power! Well ventilated antec 300, asus bios/sapphire original 5850.
I had problems with the vrms in furmark (90C at one point), but that is all. Furmark is not a practical benchmark; it is a worst case job.
To combat I reapplied the vrm sink, being careful to get the TIM placement right and whacked my spotcool onto the topside of them, and they brought them in line with my other temps.
DIYing a heatsink like that is, being polite, highly questionable. I knocked 20C off my vrm temps by carefully reinstalling first time round; things like this there is a lot to get wrong...
Truly amazing product. Forget lower temps/higher overclocks. My graphics card, loudest part of my system is now silent, forget load or startup, it just merges into the system.
However it does heat your case, but given that graphics are the bottleneck for gaming without doubt, I'll take 3C on my processor for better, silent graphics any day.