Why do IHS still Exist?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Mister Woof said:

amd 2400xp

Does it have the 4 little felt pads on it?

[Mister Woof]

Just now, ShrimpBrime said:

Does it have the 4 little felt pads on it?

it was an Athlon XP 2400+

 

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Soyo Dragon KT400

[Mister Woof]

Before that though they shielded us from screwing it up as it was Slot A CPU on its own board and enclosure

 

i had this guy

 

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, Mister Woof said:

Before that though they shielded us from screwing it up as it was Slot A CPU on its own board and enclosure

 

i had this guy

 

Just like a Nintendo cartridge

[vsteel]

Keep in mind when you see a wafer and see how thick it is, they back grind it after probe to make it a lot thinner for both the wafer saw and packaging.  Not to mention if you have through die connections.   The chips can wind up like a couple of thick pieces of paper stacked together, sometimes thicker but not a lot, depending on the package and the stack up so cracking can happen easily.

[geo3]

It's conceivable they could sell the CPU with a built in shim, that way the die is exposed at the likely hood of cracking it is greatly reduced. But it's still not as protected as an IHS.

[WereCatf]

8 hours ago, Nanook said:

But people swap out stock GPU coolers for water blocks all the time. 

It's a very, VERY tiny minority who do.

[Guest]

Lid-less PGA FX-9590. 

Average OC increase from de-lidding Soldered AMD chips is about 100mhz increase in clock speed.

Information gathered on this average from Phenom 1 (Agena core) Athlon 6400+ (Windsor core)all the way to Ryzen 2700X (PR core).

 

--  gotta love naked chips