[winewood]

The right thing to do, but it in many cases negates the benifits of mm from base cooling that delivers such good results because they are so focused on their specific job. Im not here to start a flame post in any way, but point out that a heat spreader will do just that and the core heat area will now be bigger.

I am thinking the proper course is not to defend what already is but to learn and adjust for this. If not learn from the newer environment that we are working then assume the arguement of keeping your older block and ask how many degrees different is it now, and is this enough to change peoples mindsets toward focusing on a couple of types of non-tec blocks.

I feel that this movement narrows the gap between the non directed blocks as the chip manufactures seek to find ways to keep aircooling an option.

Is this a logical observation? Once the larger heat spread area is accounted for, it will become a crutch that manufactures can use to spread out the heat or make the cores larger. Then we must address this topic later if not now.