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bigben2k · 01-10-2006, 02:20 PM

Shoot, I'll be happy when I can measure something, anything. I'm not concerned with the geometry of the processor heat, simply because an IHS and the baseplate of a block will (IMO) smooth things out to be near-indistinguishable.

However, there is some anecdotal evidence that a Storm type design, whose cooling is highly localized, may result in a better overclock. Is there any truth to it? Knowing that the baseplate of Storm is ~1 mm thick, and we know the IHS (~1.4mm for Intel (~1.65mm for LGA), ~2.4mm for AMD), is any localization of the cooling effect going to have any impact, or is it all smoothed out in the thickness?

I'm not sure how I would even go about testing that, unless I used various sizes of heat dies.

01-10-2006, 02:20 PM	#27
bigben2k Responsible for 2% of all the posts here. Join Date: May 2002 Location: Texas, U.S.A. Posts: 8,302	Re: Industry heatsink+TIM testing@frostytech Shoot, I'll be happy when I can measure something, anything. I'm not concerned with the geometry of the processor heat, simply because an IHS and the baseplate of a block will (IMO) smooth things out to be near-indistinguishable. However, there is some anecdotal evidence that a Storm type design, whose cooling is highly localized, may result in a better overclock. Is there any truth to it? Knowing that the baseplate of Storm is ~1 mm thick, and we know the IHS (~1.4mm for Intel (~1.65mm for LGA), ~2.4mm for AMD), is any localization of the cooling effect going to have any impact, or is it all smoothed out in the thickness? I'm not sure how I would even go about testing that, unless I used various sizes of heat dies. __________________ WBTA (Water Block Testing Alliance) Nordic Hardware WC 101