Cool-Shims?

[tigerbait]

From reading different posts, the things I see most people say about copper shims is that they shouldn't be copper at all. I just came across This "Cool-Shim". Anybody ever use one of these? I plan on putting together a Tbird system soon, with a 1 Ghz and a Fop 32, maybe a KK266 or A7V133. My primary concern is the safety of the core.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

as long as they're not too tall, they should be okay...


BTW, this is how shims hsould have been made all along... not the gimmicky "copper" shims that are out there that supposedly help cooling.


Mike

 

[WarCon]

Very much agree with Mikewarrior.

 

[Swanny]

ClubOC seams to swear by them. They use them with about everything. I'm planning on getting one with my upgrade to a Palomino. Shims are good protection against a crushed core.

Swan

 

[hito]

Question: Do you need to apply any thermal compound to the shim? I heard of some saying they do and some saying they don't. But according to that review it doesn't seem like thermal compound does anything to do with the temps on the shim and which means no thermal compound is required on the shim. So can anyone confirm this? Thanks in advance.

BTW, is there ANY possible way to crack a core with a shim? Besides leaning on it with all your weight . Also are this also made for the new Palamino's? Which some say will be a tad lower in height.( Or was that the 1.33... )

 

[Mikewarrior2]

a shim isn't absolute assurance against cracking the core... it does help prevent off-angle breaks of core-edges.

Apply grease to the cpu core. Applying grease to the shim at best does nothing, and at worse probably increases core temp a little bit.

At worst case, some shims have wide-variances in build quality, which leads to some of them being too tall and then they interfere with heatsink performance. make absolute sure that the shim isn't too tall before using it(and also, grease may increase height...).


Mike