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Originally posted by g.l.amour
one thing to take into consideration
a shim requires your pc to be laid flat on its side. now i wanted a shim too (shame, shame), but, if i have to lay my pc on its side to keep the shim from falling off; my res is going to be emptied quite fast on my floor ;-)
sooo, no shim for me
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(BTW, congrats on your 500th post!)
Now where did you hear that? That's false.
Shims are made so that you can squeeze them around the pads, on the Athlon.
What one has to be careful with is the fact that the core rises somewhere between 0.80 and 0.88 mm (from AMD specs) above the ceramic surface, so the shim must be lower than that, otherwise the block will not be contacting the core, and the cpu will fry.
On the opposite side, if the shim is too thin, then there still exists a possibility for the core to be crushed, albeit a smaller one. The pads are supposed to help prevent this (they're about 1.5 mm thick).
The shim prevents the side (and corner) of the core from getting crushed/damaged/chipped in the event that the pressure on the block becomes uneven (typically when someone dismounts the block).
So if you have a steady hand and a good head on your shoulders, you won't use a shim, but if you're like me
, you'll measure that shim before putting it on.