News Thermal Grizzly's Contact Frame Reduces Alder Lake Temps by 10 Degrees Celsius

[Admin]

Commercial 'bend aids' for Intel's LGA1700 processors were tested and found extremely useful.

Thermal Grizzly's Contact Frame Reduces Alder Lake Temps by 10 Degrees Celsius : Read more

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

But Thermal Grizzly's 12th Gen CPU Contact Frame is not cheap. It costs €39.90 in Germany ($36 without VAT), so everyone will have to decide whether a 10 degrees Celsius difference in temperatures is worth this price.

And the EU should start price gouging investigations...tomorrow?

 

[hotaru.hino]

And the EU should start price gouging investigations...tomorrow?

I think there are bigger fish to fry than going after a product that maybe a handful of people would actually buy.

 

[darknate]

And the EU should start price gouging investigations...tomorrow?

You would have to justify why you require it. If you don't, then it's not price gouging.
Also, I'm pretty sure you have zero clue the amount it costs to pay for the aluminum and the time to have it machined and then made into a finished product.

 

[Why_Me]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cogCj3MFOmk

 

[King_V]

So, is Intel going to insist that using this ALSO voids your warranty?

 

[Tom Sunday]

Looks to me like a lot of marketers or resellers wanting to again making a quick profit! A cool $36 can significantly improve ones overclocking temps? And you so rightfully mentioned Thermalright already a month ago quickly jumped on a similar bandwagon with their own solution. In my humble opinion to essentially pay $40 for a sliver of machined aluminum, which once set-up, can be mass reproduced and as such is gauging the consumers. I was also surprised to see that 'derBauer' from Germany teamed up for the scheme thus prostituting his good name. I would have loved to see Intel stepping-up to the bar (already many months ago) with a special CPU software or BIOS upgrade achieving much needed and improved cooling results. Just perhaps we will see major cooling enhancements in their upcoming new CPU generation only a few months away? And Intel using this temperature improvement as a major marketing tool in order to entice already existing Alder Lake owners in considering upgrading. Never a dull moment!

 

[jtcmedia]

Of course, it's out of stock everywhere

 

[rmzalbar]

"Price gouging?" For a totally optional thing you've been doing fine without? Are you serious with this whining? Do you really expect germany to compete with china prices anyway? Yes we must call the lawmakers I'm sure they will get right on this emergency.

 

[TerryLaze]

So, is Intel going to insist that using this ALSO voids your warranty?

It changes the amount of pressure between the pins and the CPU and intel can't guarantee that everything will keep running fine, so they can't warrantee it.

On the other hand, if you send in a CPU by itself how are they going to tell, other than by the CPU testing out fine.

 

[hotaru.hino]

So, is Intel going to insist that using this ALSO voids your warranty?

Of course, because you're doing something to the CPU outside of what the manufacturer specified. Heck, AMD won't honor your warranty if you used PBO (but how they'll prove that is up in the air). And at some point, both companies wouldn't honor your warranty if you used an aftermarket cooler (which again, good look to them proving that).

 

[TerryLaze]

Of course, because you're doing something to the CPU outside of what the manufacturer specified. Heck, AMD won't honor your warranty if you used PBO (but how they'll prove that is up in the air). And at some point, both companies wouldn't honor your warranty if you used an aftermarket cooler (which again, good look to them proving that).

Usually the support people just straight up ask people for their bios settings or a list of hardware, most people will answer honestly, mostly because they have no idea what's going on anyway.

People that use this thing will be more knowledgeable so they will know not to mention it.