If they're soldering heatpipes to heatsinks for better thermal transfer, can you do the same for a CPU to heatsink mating? From a post in the CPU section, someone was asking just how long the thermal ...
Ever since Intel’s Ivy Bridge CPUs launched back in 2012, Intel has consistently caught flak for using cheap TIM (Thermal Interface Material) to interface the CPU die with the IHS (Integrated Heat ...
Just out of curiosity:<BR><BR>Is there any kind of solder that can SAFELY be used on a CPU die, that's also got good thermal conductivity?<BR><BR>I was wondering about the feasibility of directly ...
Ever since Intel switched away from using solder to a thermal interface material on its desktop CPUs, enthusiasts have been asking the company to reverse that decision -- and occasionally cracking the ...
[quarterturn] had an old Apple Powerbook 520c sitting around in his junk bin. For the time, it was a great computer but in a more modern light, it could use an upgrade. It can’t run BSD, either: you ...
Ever since Intel switched away from using solder to a thermal interface material on its desktop CPUs, enthusiasts have been asking the company to reverse that decision -- and occasionally cracking the ...