Based on my humble experiments with backside cooling, I wonder if that would be a fruitful direction for him to find the next set of cooling performance enhancements:
I have an Alder Lake N97 mini-ITX motherboard which has a soldered-down BGA CPU and non-standard heatsink. Upgrading the heatsink isn't a very realistic option, at least not without some custom machining that I'm not setup to do. I have added case fans, but the CPU is still sometimes pegged at...
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As I mention in that thread, there are particulars about my situation that yielded such large improvements. Also, I'm dumping most of the heat directly to the case, which wouldn't be a good idea with a much higher-power CPU. But, there's still a lot else you could do.
For instance, I think someone could probably design a CPU socket that's more thermally-conductive and use it on a motherboard with a heatsink that you can mount on the motherboard backside, directly underneath the CPU. Some cases have a cut-out that could accommodate it.
Also, he's known to work with case manufacturers, whom he could encourage to focus some airflow directly on that spot.
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