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Originally Posted by Orkan
At the end of the day... I doubt switching from apogee to storm, or storm to apogee would grant one a higher overclock.
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hmm - is that not the implication of the hypothesis that the lower IHS temperature results (partly?) from a different block geometry leading to poorer IHS to Die contact?
(assuming it is the efficiency of cooling the die as a whole that determines the o/clock... rather than better cooling of hotspots etc.)
if you look at the
"actual CPU testing" figures swiftech link to just before the graphs on the apogee page (which are for a dual a64) then the storm figures give an IHS temp that is (slightly) lower than the CPU probe in each case, and for the apogee the same or (slightly) higher than the CPU probe. that seems to suggest that there is certainly a possibility that the accuracy of an IHS temperature as a proxy for die temperature
may vary between block designs....