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That’s a good catch, but don’t modern CPUs thermally throttle, rather than risk damage? Not that you should rely on this with an underpowered cooling solution b
by stouset 1y ago
That’s a good catch, but don’t modern CPUs thermally throttle, rather than risk damage? Not that you should rely on this with an underpowered cooling solution but I would expect worse performance, not a fried chip.
- spoaceman7777 1y agoNot really a lot it can do rapidly enough if there's only thermal paste on half the CPU. It sounds like the user likely did the opposite of the "offset seating" of the heatsink that Noctua recommended.
- account42 1y agoThere thermal paste on the whole CPU in TFA, it's just thinner on one side because there was more pressure there. Or are you looking at the pic of the heat sink, which is larger than the CPU heat spreader and thus only partially covered by paste?