Do you still need to use a contact frame?

[remo233]

If buying 12th gen now, do you still need to use a contact frame? Have read it can be an issue, if you over tighten can cause memory issues, if you don't tighten enough can cause other issues. What a pain, keeping my away from intel. 

[Motifator]

This is not really a thing save for specific scenarios of putting an inane amount of pressure on the CPU where that snake oil frame can even be remotely of any actually  helpful use.

It's just another brainwashing item from the Kingpin and the alikes.

Besides, why not go AMD?

[MiszS]

If you buy a more power hungry intel cpu, then the contact frame is worth it, because it can prevent bending over the years, and slightly improve temps. But if it's an i3, then there is no point in buying it

[Average Nerd]

12 minutes ago, remo233 said:

If buying 12th gen now, do you still need to use a contact frame?

No. Unless you go absolutely top of the line (and/or plan on substantial overclocking) it's not necessary at all.

[OhioYJ]

I'd wager to bet 99.9% (at least) of the 12th and 13th gen chips out there don't have contact frames on them.  It's definitely not mandatory or needed.

 

That being said as someone who has installed them multiple times on several builds now for my own machine, it's not that big of a deal.

 

54 minutes ago, Motifator said:

Besides, why not go AMD?

Yeah then you can get the AMD contact frame....

[Kilrah]

It's never been needed. Does it improves thermals/max power? Yeah a little, but that's meaningless unless you want the tweaking experience.

[loony979]

Yeah i agree it's not needed, i use 13600k & was contemplating on getting 1 for mine. But yeah no im not even gonna bother im happy with what it does & where it can get to. it is a bit of a finicky thing to deal with even with my water cooling with 4 rads to even think of messing around with the CPU & MOBO no thanks. Im sure it's not going to improve my temps to get what ? 5.8ghz no im fine with lower voltage 1.270v 5.6GHZ stable Overclock. But as Kilah mentioned if you are a serious tweaker then it has benefits, but so marginal im not even sure it could gain that extra (yes the temps go down a wee bit). These cpu's are plentiful anyway for normal use like gaming, well it's how i see it coming from my last Cpu 7600k. I just find it now a waste of time, unless it really isn't sitting on the socket 100% even then...

[flibberdipper]

It's absolutely not necessary but it does make a difference. Even with my little old 12600KF my temps across the board dropped a few degrees, but the biggest difference is that core to core temps got much closer together.