Gamers Nexus Investigates Socket 1700 IHS Contact Issues and Tests Thermal Grizzly Contact Frame
Image Credit – Gamers Nexus Steve from Gamers Nexus, seen above flaunting Intel’s failure to its face, has done in-depth pressure testing of the LGA-1700 platform and found it wanting. Specifically, the GN team found that asymmetric mounting clip for the CPU socket puts unequal pressure on the CPU IHS. This causes non-linear contact over the CPU die which in-turn causes higher temperatures for the cores. How much higher? Using Thermal Grizzly’s Contact Frame instead of the stock mounting mechanism saw a drop of approximately 7C in package temps. That is a massive difference of the caliber that people …