Thread: IHS or not?
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Unread 12-10-2005, 10:45 AM   #20
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Default Re: IHS or not?

The point to all this furor is to find out WHAT we need to investigate and HOW we need to present it. Or even if we need to investigate!

Temps of the on-CPU diode are one metric. Another is overclockability. Add both of those with/and w/out IHS. Then, there's die-sim tests and finally simulations. Finally, we can just test overclockability.

All of them have merit, it seems, and we can't single out a particular number and say "This is the ranking". The closest seems to be CPU diode and die-sim temps, but overclocking really gives an effectiveness number that trumps the other numbers. However, without testing a large sample, that overclockability is hard to trust.

Blah.

I think pH is on the right track, but I'm still worried about making sure the numbers are important to you guys.
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