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do we have to test every configuration ? (what/who defines the combinations 'needed' ?)
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Perhaps that is the purpose of an open forum? The community, through a forum (cough...procooling), can dictate what "standard" testing procedures are. No?
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you will be unable to REPLICATE the mfgr's TIM joint
you/we know neither the matls nor the procedure nor can we replicate the (mechanical) mounting with a loose IHS/shim
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Perhaps Intel and/or AMD would be nice enough to tell us how they mount the IHS. Can't imagine that is very sensitive material.
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anything other than a CPU will require correlation
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I was going to mention that the suggested device be caliberated to different CPU speeds. Let's just say:
Athlon 64 venice @ 1.6ghz= 50w
@ 1.8ghz= 65w
@ 2.0ghz= 80w (all made up off the top of my head)
The device would have to be caliberated (fiddled with) until its temps matched that of a CPU putting out the same amount of heat.
This is kind of like a dog chasing its tail..... ahh screw it. I knew this idea was out of my leauge of thinking....