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Hmmmmm i never had problems with overheating i just use cheap thermal compound and keep the dust out of my desk box and it never passes the 40c even after hours of CPU intensive apps.

As for the Eee it gets pretty warm after an hour of rendering fractals with GIMP. I have no clue whats inside yet I am very tempted but at the same time don't want to void my warranty.
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My desktop is overclocked by 800MHz to 3.2GHz and the voltage ramped over the maximum approved voltage for my CPU... it runs at 100% CPU 24/7 except between Folding workloads, and never gets above 52C... that's with a 120mm diameter copper ball heatsink with a 110mm fan attached to the CPU with Arctic Cooling MX-1.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118019

hmmmm niiiice

i just have my stock heatsink and im clocked to 2.0 (2.4+) Ghz from 1.5 (1.8+)

Spidey, isn't an eeepc just a couple hundred bucks worth of simple plastic anyway? Crack it open!

AFAIK, and perhaps Hannibal over there can confirm this, but I don't think ASUS can void your warranty just for opening it up and looking inside or performing maintenance/repairs. Of course, if you break something in the process, that's another story, and they can't be held responsible for fixing it.

Cunjo: the problem becomes figuring out when your opening it up actually broke something (see, e.g., static discharge damage). It may vary by state, but if they say DO NOT OPEN CASE ON PAIN OF TOTALLY VOIDING WARRANTY, then you're pretty much screwed should you open the case and later have a problem.

Virtually anything worth taking apart has some sort of holographic, tamper-evident seal over a screw or join.

Whistler: They put one of those over the screw for the external cover to my unused mPCI slot... but not over the covers for my RAM, HD, or the top panel, or even the CPU heatsink assembly. In fact, I could easily unscrew the entire case with the exception of that one, tamper-evident screw, and gain access to the motherboard and all of the components on it without a problem.

Of course, Gateway was engineered by poorly trained monkeys, so what do you expect?

Wow! Gateway has ENGINEERS?

i can open the RAM / mPCIE slot without voiding the warranty but i can't disassemble all of it.

Semantics, leebs... they have poorly trained monkeys.

Spidey: The mPCI slot was the only part of my laptop that I COULDN'T open without them finding out and voiding my warranty... OH THE IRONY.

Holy crap you play tremulous :D

I play everything which runs on my computer.

Which sadly excludes Deus Ex, StarCraft and now Battlefield 2142.