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Unread 07-10-2002, 03:22 PM   #13
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Originally posted by airspirit
Shims a source of problems? Nah ... mine just dug trenches in my processor and fried it. Otherwise my system was fine except for the fact that it wouldn't boot up ...
I tend to agree.

The more I think about it, the more I think that this whole shim thing is a joke.

I mean, we're trying to apply pressure to this CPU, but we put a shim, which reduces the pressure on the 5 contact points (core + 4 pads). If the shim is too thin, then it won't do anything at all (might as well not have one). If it's too thick, then it's trouble.

I don't believe that AMD manufactures its procs with exactly the same height, there's got to be a margin of error here. I don't believe that AMD has ever issued physical dimensions on their CPUs, as far as how much the core is above the base, so how is a shim suppose to fit my CPU exactly?

It seems to me that shims defeat the whole purpose of mounting something on a CPU.
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