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Originally Posted by unregistered
do you guys think a die temp is known ? or necessary ?
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I would say that it is the
only thing of importance.
Perhaps this is the exact point where the overclocker and the thermal engineer differ. The thermal engineer is concerned with assessing the device's thermal characteristics in broad terms, in this instance the IHS surface temp. The overclocker
only cares how well the thing that directly affects the ability to overclock is being cooled, being the temperature of the CPU die. There is a direct and immediate relationship between the peak CPU die temperature and the achievable overclock. A broad "smoothed out" IHS surface temperature assessment does not provide that information.
Now people may very well argue that 0.5-1.0C means SFA, but I tend to disagree in a world where performance is balanced against environmental considerations such as noise. That 0.5C gain may be "used" to lower noise levels, and so on. This is not directed at you Bill, but to those who argue that small differences mean little.