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Originally posted by bigben2k
As for the exceptional performance of the Cascade, I defer to the design: it can handle the hot spots of the CPU die much better than any other block. The real puzzler is the magnitude of any kind of hot spot (if my theory is correct): I thought that the IHS's purpose was also to smooth out these hot spots.
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Yes, the IHS smooths out hot-spots to a small degree, but it is still fairly thin and lateral spread is not that great, as you say.
Definitely something that warrants further investigation though.