@Vipeax - first off, welcome to the Anandtech forums. Nice to have you here.
I enjoyed reviewing your test data - very thorough, and thank you. Suggest you make yourself a sig so we know what you're running all this on. Those temps are pretty fantastic with that 1:1 O/C to 3.6GHz. You must be very happy with the 9700. Can you elaborate on it a little for me? Specifically, amy issues fitting it to your mobo? Fan oriented to back of the case? And would you consider it a "quiet" heatsink at idle. I like a little bit of quiet bling, you see. One day, someone's going to get hands on definitive about the Zerotherm Nirvana - the heatsink I really have my eye on for future upgrades. My heatsink is a middle of the roader - an Akasa Evo Blue/ Rosewill Z3. It's pretty quiet, reasonably efficient, fits the ga-p35c-ds3r perfectly, and in my windowed case, one of the better looking solutions. I tend to idle at 35-38 and stressed, at 57-60. All perfectly good temps, but it demonstrates the difference between mid-level heatsinks, and the tier 1's - 3-4C temp drops. When I get the upgrade bug, it will be the cooler - not because it's holding me back re: O/C, but because, well, many of us can't leave well enough alone.
Back to the Nirvana - my concern is fitting it to my mobo in the proper orientation. Issue is mem slots - I run Corsair dominators, slots one and three, and some pics I've seen make it seem as if the Nirvana might actually hang over slot one memory. Glad you had no issues with the 9700 on the p35-ds3r. Oh, is that the 9700NT - gunmetal PWN, or what...
Regards,