why dont they make CPUs/GPUs with a ceramic cover instead of steel? isnt ceramic much more thermally efficient?
Doesn't matter when they're putting the cheapest most garbage TIM underneath the heat spreader so it dries out completely and stops making contact within 10 years and grenades your thermal performance.I'm not about to delid my haswell and I had to do a 100mV undervolt to get good temps.
>steelare you retarded? IHS are made of copper plated with nickel.
>>102415321Didn't Intel stop that shit like 5 years ago?
>>102415321thermal glue doesn't 'dry' retardand except for the 4th - 8th gen most cpus are soldered instead of glued.
>>102415957one of the improvements with haswell refresh was improved pigeon shitpre refresh haswells get really hot now if not delidded
>>102416018Intel CPUs after SB were 'hot' for OC from factory, afaik no one ever showed evidence that the TIM ages.That's one of the reasons of the 'Eternal SB' meme and 'Delid this'.
>>102416075Yes they were hot to begin with but now theyre worseI'm not speaking from experience, I have a haswell refresh that runs at 44C full load
>>102415130With some exceptions, things that are electrically conductive are usually also thermally conductive. Metals are electrically conductive, that's why they're used to make wires. Ceramics are electrical insulators, that's why they're used to make the insulators on power poles.
>>102415130Why don't they make them out of ice so they always stay cool?
