Why don't they just make it flat?

qazwsxokmijn

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With lapping a rare but existent practice in the never-ending quest of cooling hot CPUs, why won't Intel just make a god damn flat IHS to begin with? The True120 was I believe slightly convex in order to conform to the concave shape of the Intel CPU IHS (am I right?). Nowadays the recent aftermarket coolers are more flat than anything.

But the question remains: why won't CPU manufacturers make the IHS flat in the first place?
 

ZimZum

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I believe the slight concave shape of the IHS is designed to protect the cpu core.