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Originally Posted by Joe
I agree that people should want quantification of all aspects of a test setup. But we havent had it yet in any setup ever... so why the big concern about it now with this option? I mean I understand a concern, but I dont remember 3 months of ranting and raving threads about die sims, or Bare die AMD cpu's...
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Actually I recall about 4 years of ongoing investigations, qualifications and attempted quantifications on the bare-die->heatsink TIM layer. For the large part of it, it was all very mature, organised, and amicable. People asked the hard questions, people with experience and open minds and skills came up with the experiments, the testbeds, the tools and the answers, and after about 4 years we started to develop a pretty fair understanding of the issue, and quantify the TIM layer
within a certain set of assumed circumstances, that being flat and even pressure between the CPU and the heatsink. That non-flatness and uneveness caused variations is, to most everyone, an automatic given. The work done here in the community is excellent, and sets Procooling above and beyond most any other enthusiast forum out there.
Along comes the unavoidable march of progress, along with IHS capped CPUs which simply cannot be ignored any longer, and testing devices such as TTVs. Naturally, as one would expect, we attempt to start the process of exploring the variables, but this time everyone who doesn't believe that TIM1 is (effectively) invariant, even when faced with non-flat or uneven and/or flexing base-plated heastinks as possible problem scenarios, is being shouted down, subjected to derision, and being treated like they're mindless bigoted idiots simply for asking the same questions that formed the heart and soul of this community for the last 4 years.
Don't know about everyone else, but I'm still asking myself: "What changed all of a sudden?".