if you look at the base of the Noctua it has fairly evenly spaced ridges, i think this is to increase surface area. Interesting to note that arctic silver suggests a very thin application of TIM on the HS base which you wipe off leaving an extremely thin residue in these ridges and then a line of TIM on the CPU itself
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