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Originally posted by Cathar
Then I've heard of people who drop the springs altogether and tighten until the motherboard flexes slightly. I've even done this myself, and this probably equates to around 100lbs of pressure.
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Thats the ONLY way I ever mount my blocks. I never use springs. Yes the temps will drop some. The more pressure the easier the heat transfers as there is less resistance. I tighten mine down to were I can pick the board up by the block and it will not move.
There has been a bunch of crap spammed around back when the first socket A CPU's started to roll out as the heat sinks were not designed well and newbs (I was a newb then to) kept cracking cores because of it. Soon after the newbs (including myself) came out of the wood work complaining about it and there lies the over rated problem of cracked dies. I only ever cracked one die and it was with a cheap Orb (not thermaltakes) that didn't touch the 4 pads on the CPU and had a miserble clip. I quickly destroyed a CPU with that POS. Now it should be pretty difficult to crack a die as the die's themselfs are stronger and the HS's have much better clips and designs. You still need to be carefull but common since "should" prevail. If your stupid enough to use one hand ontop of the block/HS and apply all your might and then latch the clip/tighten the screws you deserve a cracked die!
people are just to worried about it, but that is easy for me to say....