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What is a "noob?" If you spend a decade or so actually teaching SW applications, programming, database management -- you might not know the particulars of CPU design familiar to some engineer at TI or Intel. [Believe me -- I'm talking about the simple fabrication of CPUs: sticking together a circuit-board, IHS and either solder or a TIM].
I had always noticed a quarter-inch gap at the base of prior-gen CPU integrated heat-spreaders -- where they met the little square green PCB.
De-lidding has unveiled the obvious: there's mostly just a small rectangular silicon die under that IHS hood.
Maybe the little 1/4" gap would have accommodated a simple, flat analog thermal sensor. If it did-- I never heard any cooling geeks direct notice to it. You could fold the sensor and put it between the CPU and mobo-- running the wires between LGA-pins. Or stick it on the heatsink (no good).
But suppose you could slip it in between the CPU PCB and the IHS?
Stupidity grows exponentially with age.
I had always noticed a quarter-inch gap at the base of prior-gen CPU integrated heat-spreaders -- where they met the little square green PCB.
De-lidding has unveiled the obvious: there's mostly just a small rectangular silicon die under that IHS hood.
Maybe the little 1/4" gap would have accommodated a simple, flat analog thermal sensor. If it did-- I never heard any cooling geeks direct notice to it. You could fold the sensor and put it between the CPU and mobo-- running the wires between LGA-pins. Or stick it on the heatsink (no good).
But suppose you could slip it in between the CPU PCB and the IHS?
Stupidity grows exponentially with age.
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