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CPU Shim

Yes a CPU shim. Go to http://www.1coolpc.com and click on their cpu shim link. Several vendors sell them, here is their discription "This is a precision made piece of cooling gear, not just some stamp and go product. It will precisely fit on your XP, keep it safe from heatsink crushing and cool parts of your expensive processor that have otherwise been overlooked. It's a great addition to your new heatsink and can be considered as an insurance policy. These are the highest quality copper shims you will find anywhere at any price"
 
I used them for like a few days before deciding that it's useless and it has been in storage for months. If you want one for AXPs you can have it really cheap from me.
 
Shims were useful before AMD started putting those little foam rubber dots on the CPU. Since then, not so much.

I think most of hte shims sold now do not fit a barton core.
 
Originally posted by: ConcillianShims were useful before AMD started putting those little foam rubber dots on the CPU. Since then, not so much.

I think most of hte shims sold now do not fit a barton core.
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Those "dots" have always been on socket A CPUs, AFAIK. I remember seeing them on Duron 600 chips running on AMD 760 chipset motherboards. The shims sold now will fit Barton cores just fine. A buddy of mine always uses shims, but that's because he's pretty sloppy with heatsinks and has almost made a habit of killing socket A CPUs. So far he's killed one by using way too much AS3 and has killed THREE by cracking/crushing the core on CPUs without shims.

I don't think shims do anything for cooling because they are often a hair thinner than the core. They are great for protecting the core from a heatsink that is installed or removed at an angle.

FWIW I don't use shims on anything except Shuttle XPC systems.
 
I used to use one until I read [somewhere?] that I could get my cpu ~5 degrees lower by removing it. Being the risktaker that I am, I took it off and chanced chipping the core. Haven't chipped one yet; although, I have pulled a processor that someone SHOULD have used a shim on.
 
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