Skylake CPU can get damaged from Cooler mounting pressure

[CreatiXx]

Lucky side is, i did it at work so i am covered but nope i did not,it doesnt really break, more like a bend. you wont notice until you try to boot your system, thats how they found out. It did boot but you wont get any signal from screen or anything. Its a mean thing cause attaching a cooler to loose aint good at all but now attaching a cooler to hard might break it. I find it extremely hard to find a way in between. You dont want your cooler to fall off after a while when you give it to a customer

 

[realneil]

Is that cooler certified for Skylake CPUs?

 

[CreatiXx]

well i assume it is. If it fits 1150,1155 platforms, so in theory it should fit 1151 too. But now this got coming up i think they're working on it to kind of fix this and prevent in the future.

Because at the end of the road, if you buy a skylake CPU, a custom cooler. And you bend your CPU because you tightend it too hard. Neither intel nor the cooler company will take the blame. Its all on you. Which gives a kind of unsettling feeling imo

 

[realneil]

But Intel reduced the thickness of the CPU's PCB when they released Skylake. It's a glaring design flaw as I see it.
Nobody said anything about what coolers ~not~ to use on them, until they started breaking.

Also, isn't there a specification concerning load pressures and other stresses that CPU cooler makers can cleave to?

 

[Kushiro]

Yes there is, it was mentioned in the article.

 

[realneil]

Yes there is, it was mentioned in the article.

Is it possible that it's uneven pressure that's doing the deed? (tightening one corner too much)

 

[CreatiXx]

naah cause it bends almost everything

 

[realneil]

naah cause it bends almost everything

I have a new MugenMax that's still in the box. I contacted Scythe and they offered to send me the new mounting for Skylake builds.

 

[TPC]

I have seen people kill their haswell and older using scythe coolers, the thing with them is that you cam tighten them Basicly all the way down go the socket itself without any kind of stopp. My scythe ashura was once so tight the mobo started to Visibly warp, and I still could go 5-6 turns on both screws...