Talk:CPU shim

Thermal grease
The article does not mention the role of thermal grease (e.g. if it's used in addition to or instead of a shim). Socrates2008 ( Talk  )   12:30, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Illustrative Image
Unless you know exactly what a cpu shim looks like, the image is no help at all without further clarification. To clarify, the shim is the blue part. The (semi-)circles at the four corners fit rubber 'feet' that are on top of the cpu package. The opening in the middle is for the metal cpu, which sticks out a bit above the rest of the package. The thickness of the shim should be exactly the amount the cpu sticks out above the package, so that a heatsink that rests on the shim also touches the cpu. 108.234.224.230 (talk) 17:46, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

CPU Shim vs CPU Contact Frame?
A somewhat recent computer building peripheral to hit the market have been CPU "Contact Frames", which are designed as an aid for mounting CPU coolers in a way that creates a level contact pressure. These help with properly cooling potentially uneven CPUs, and are available for Intel's LGA1700 and AMD's AM5 sockets as examples. They replace the latching mechanism for the CPU, the Integrated Loading Mechanism (ILM), entirely however.

They are not designed out of safety or necessity like CPU shims, but they do serve the same sort of purpose by creating even contact pressure between the CPU and heatsink, resulting in better cooling. Would it be appropriate to include mention of contact frames in this article, or are shims specifically for IHS-less CPUs? 38.97.112.18 (talk) 18:56, 10 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Maybe, to be honest, I have been thinking about proposing this article for deletion since it was just a parenthesis in CPU history. I am not sure the subject is notable enough to warrant an article on its own. -- Frap (talk) 08:20, 11 July 2024 (UTC)