Thermal Grizzly, in collaboration with Der8auer, is developing its Contact Frame CPU. It is about an ILM (Independent Loading Mechanism) for LGA-1700 CPUs. The objective is to prevent CPU and/or socket twists on the new Intel platform. In doing so, the brand announces a gain of 10°C on temperatures.
Contact Frame : CPU/socket torsion ==> Finito !
Finally, the principle of this project remains the same as that of Thermalright : to replace the original CPU mounting system by another more efficient one… More efficient in the sense that it does not damage the processor during the assembly. Indeed, with the new dimensions of the CPUs, the force exerted by the socket on the IHS can lead to a torsion of the latter.
As you can see, if the IHS is deformed, the contact surface with the heatsink is not regular anymore. The result is a loss of cooling efficiency and therefore higher temperatures. And high temperatures also mean thermal throttling and performance losses.
As a result, this small frame indirectly reduces the temperature on the CPU Igor’s Lab was the beast and observed, at best, up to 10°C of decrease. The observed gain also depended on the shape of the base of the waterblock used.
We finish now with the selling price which is announced at : 39.90 € on the European market.
