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#Rotor · 07-12-2003, 09:27 PM

the only time that much pressure is required.... is when you have that pink goo (that comes on std HSF's) between your block and the CPU. the core is hard as glass, the copper... well not quite as hard, but hard enough not to deform, under any reasonable pressure, 2 non budging flat hard surfaces getting squeezed together, I know it will not make the slightest difference whether you had 3Lb or 30Lb on that block. the TIM has been formed the moment all the access thermal paste has been squeezed out, and that's it, nothing more to gain by more pressure...other than maybe a crack or two...

07-12-2003, 09:27 PM	#7
#Rotor Cooling Savant Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Dione, sector 4s1256 Posts: 852	the only time that much pressure is required.... is when you have that pink goo (that comes on std HSF's) between your block and the CPU. the core is hard as glass, the copper... well not quite as hard, but hard enough not to deform, under any reasonable pressure, 2 non budging flat hard surfaces getting squeezed together, I know it will not make the slightest difference whether you had 3Lb or 30Lb on that block. the TIM has been formed the moment all the access thermal paste has been squeezed out, and that's it, nothing more to gain by more pressure...other than maybe a crack or two... __________________ There is no Spoon....