Pros & cons of copper shims for T-bird?

[Sidetracker]

What are the pros & cons of copper shims? Putting together a KT7A-RAID, 1g T-bird, Taisol 742, using Arctic Silver II.

 

[SuperKen!]

Well, if you are VERY careful while attaching the HSF to the CPU, there is no pro to getting the copper shim.

 

[compuwiz1]

Biggest con is that a customer installed a CPU I had tested for overclocking for him. It was 50MHz short of how sold. We talked about it and he agreed to take out the shim. It was a heat retention issue, but I can't tell you exactly who made it or how it was installed. In the end, he got the 50MHz back, once the shim was removed.

 

[iwishiwaselite]

A con would be the shim might be abit higher then the core, causing your heatsink to not even touch the core and resulting in a dead cpu..