Thread: IHS or not?
View Single Post
Unread 12-09-2005, 04:49 PM   #1
Brians256
Pro/Staff
 
Brians256's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Klamath Falls, OR
Posts: 1,439
Default IHS or not?

For more information, see this thread on the Apogee review done by Lee "Robotech".

What is most interesting is that we now have some information about how badly the IHS affects temperatures! Testing with the ancient Maze3 on an Athlon64 chip with an IHS shows that it performs nearly as well as a modern Storm WB! That is, within 1C. See this post by Lee. Quite informative!

Should all watercooling afficianados remove their IHS? What does this mean for future testing? Is it necessary if no one wants to remove their IHS? After all, if even ancient designs perform adequately on IHS equipped CPUs, then new designs have to be awefully bad to even register a difference in on-die temperatures.
Brians256 is offline   Reply With Quote