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MSI has designed their CPU Guard 1151 to protect your Intel Skylake CPU from bending and to make using Delided CPUs much easier.
Read more on MSI's CPU Die Guard.

Read more on MSI's CPU Die Guard.
In my view you shouldn't need to spend extra on top of your hundreds to stop something from bending!.
And it's a free one.At least they have a solution.
Bit out of the loop on this one, did Intel cheap out somewhere?
In all honesty this is a solution to a newb problem that shouldn't exist in the first place, if your over tightening the cooler then the problem lies with you it's not Intel's fault (IBKAC) and tbf you'd notice the backplate bend or worse case the motherboard
Why is it that no matter how many mistakes Intel make (Hasfail, pretty much everything since Sandy being a flop and hardly any better than before) every one seems to stick behind them? It's almost sickening.
Because lets face it Sandy was good enough for everyone, so by extension so are the new generations, they always get a controlled amount better in performance terms. They have created an excellent cycle of motherboard releases (necessary or not) people are far more likely to buy new things and their is a huge range of chips and boards to suit everyone. It's easy to see why people stick buy them, AMD cannot offer an alternative in terms of a complete package.
Don't blame it on AMD. If Intel want to compete with themselves then that's not AMD's fault.
And no, bringing Noctua into it is not ridiculous. If you were still using a Noctua cooler with instructions that were designed for thicker CPUs and mounted it on Skyake (thus ruining it) it would not be the fault of the user.