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I don't know what's worse being the sort of madman who specializes in voiding

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your customer's warranties or enabling his Reckless Behavior the way that

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Noctua has done here this small plastic

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spacer kit for their iconic Brown coolers is not only 100% trust me bro

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guaranteed to get your RMA rejected by AMD but it also increases the chance

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that something will go wrong I mean who in their right mind would take a cooler

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this size and bolt it directly to the

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fragile dyes that live under AMD's protective heat spreader that 20° 20 20°

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20° low that's impossible impossible to explain until I

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if it was anyone else I'm not even sure if I would believe this but after Noctua

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explained it the whole thing kind of makes sense and it starts with the

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creatively named Noctua NM am15 offset

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am5 mounting bars you see the thing is

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when AMD designed their am5 CPUs they

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put the io die in the middle and they put the actual compute dieses the CC s

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down at the bottom of the IHS this puts

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the hotpots of ryzen 7000 CPUs in a very

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unconventional place and you can see in noct towa's illustration here how this

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hurts the performance of a typical cooler by having the hot spot down here

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you can see we are over utilizing the heat pipes on this side and

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underutilizing the ones over here that's

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where the offset bar comes into play watch this by simply Shifting the

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mounting mechanism 7 mm downward Noctua

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says they can drop the temperature on your CPU by up to 3° this is because of

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two effects first it concentrates the

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pressure over those heat generating dyes improving thermal transfer and second it

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means more effective heat distribution throughout the base of the cooler so

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you're making better use of all of your heat pipes rather than oversaturating

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some and underutilizing others these are results are really impressive and

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reinforce what we found in water cooling Through the Ages where we saw that from

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generation to generation the performance improvements were less about actually

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just building a better water block and more about tuning the water block better

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for modern processors so while ryzen 3000 and 5000 can benefit from this

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offset Mount it's not to the same degree

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pun intended as ryzen 7000 because those

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ones have much thinner IHSS we'll be

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talking about that in a second in typical nocta fashion it'll be available

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affordably for all their desktop class coolers going back to 2005 but minus you

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might say up to 3° is not almost 20°

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what's the deal with the rest of that that is where this comes in these

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small plastic spacers allow noct TOA coolers to be mounted to delited CPUs

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and they're the result of a collaboration with their Bower I mean it

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looks like the simplest thing in the world a little piece of plastic how

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could that drop you 15°

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except the devil's in the details look how thick this is ah so I haven't played

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around with deleted ryzen 7000 yet but

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it seems that to maintain cooler compatibility with the lower profile LGA

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socket compared to their last generation pin CPUs AMD made the I CH much thicker

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which is contributing to some of the thermal challenges that users are seeing

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the solution well if you hate having a

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warranty you can do this step one get

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your hands on a delited ryzen 7,000 series processor given they developed

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the products collaboratively nocta recommends the one from Roman sold under

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the thermal Grizzly brand they've been doing a lot of that collab sort of stuff

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lately step two install a direct die

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mounting frame like this one again from thermal Grizzly this isn't strictly

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necessary but it dramatically reduces

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the risk of accidentally cracking one of these delicate dieses as you're

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tightening down your cooler I wouldn't even consider mounting a cooler direct

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die these days without one of these frames next you're going to need some

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liquid metal thermal compound okay you don't actually need it but the issue is

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that the benefit of this modification with traditional thermal paste is very

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low only about 2 to 4° this is because

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even though AMD's IHS is too thick at

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least it's soldered so it's pretty fast at moving heat from the hottest parts of

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the dyes I mean it's right in the name right it's a heat spreader so if we use

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a traditional thermal compound right on these dyes it can be somewhat

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overwhelmed by the concentration of these hotpots um heat flux density is

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the term that Noctua used but for all but the most technical of our viewers

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that's unlikely to mean anything so finally you'll need noct to his offset

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Mount that I showed you guys before okay you don't need it but if you're going to

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avoid your warranty why settle for 10 to

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17° of improvement when you can have anywhere from 12 to 19 that is the

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cumulative benefit of all of these little

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changes though now that your warranty is voided there are a couple of more things

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to consider die cracking that's less of

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a concern thanks to the contact frame but liquid metal on any one of these

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little surface mount components would be a big problem so I would suggest some

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nail polish or conformal coating or some protective covering for the ones that

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aren't already covered and here's the coolest part Noctua isn't even forcing

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you to buy this spacer if you get your direct eye contact frame and all this

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stuff from other companies they will make literally nothing providing you the

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STL files of these spacers on printable.com but they're doing it

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anyway then all you need to do is Source slightly longer screws and they're going

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to have the information about which screws you'll need on the printables page again this works with the vast

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majority of Noctua coolers since 2005 and is launching at the end of July but

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that doesn't mean that all cooling Innovation is down to changing the

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position and voiding your CPU warranty

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meet the NextGen nhd15

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it's got a whopping eight heat pipes now compared to six on the original and

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that's just the beginning the heat pipes are optimized for better performance you

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know optimizing wall thickness Wick structure all that kind of stuff but the

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big one is this fan it's finally here

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after what is this eight long years of

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product development their new 140 mm fan

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and thanks to its incredible performance giving it up to 3° better performance

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compared to their old one on a radiator they were able to increase the surface

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area of the fin stack here by 20% meaning that this should be good for

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anywhere in the neighborhood of about 3 to 4° of improvement over the already

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legendary nhd15 now of course that's on a 300 watt

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heat load so you better be running an Intel

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CPU got him which is why Noctua actually

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doesn't recommend buying this if you have a 65 wat CPU what they would

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