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Intel Skylake CPUs are bending due to cooler mount pressure

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Intel changed the thickness of the substrate for its Skylake (6th generation) Core processors. However the thinner, less rigid structure could lead to many well known coolers damaging the chip and/or the motherboard, says a report by PC Games Hardware in Germany.

The report says that due to the chip's weaker supporting structure, the pressure exerted by a number of well known coolers is simply too much and is causing components to bend. The mechanically weaker CPU, its pins, and the motherboard contacts can all be bent and sheared by the pressure exerted by cooler clamping mechanisms. Even if that doesn't happen straight away, as you system sits on its desk, the moving of the system anywhere, if it receives any knocks or bumps in transit, could result in the structural ill-effects.

PCGamesHardware.de has discussed its findings with a number of key PC cooler makers and already received replies from most of them. The following feedback was obtained during the investigation:

http://hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/88628-intel-skylake-cpus-bending-due-cooler-mount-pressure/
 
PC Gamer are reporting this also: http://www.pcgamer.com/intel-skylake-cpus-are-bending-under-the-pressure-of-some-coolers/

We thought too much force had been applied to the chip by installing one of those coolers with an electric screwdriver. It's still possible that the screwdriver applied a damaging amount of force and the damage was user error, but we've never experienced a similar issue on older Intel CPUs with thicker wafers.
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They did mention the above.

I'd never use an electric screwdriver on my system. Just hand tight, and not apply to much pressure.
 
Time will tell as people move their pcs around over time I guess. Electric screwdriver.. seriously?! Although pretty much every heatsink I've used over the years was pretty much immune to over tightening.
 
robin66 said:
I'd never use an electric screwdriver on my system. Just hand tight, and not apply to much pressure.
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First I've heard of people using electric screwdrivers on these.

kayomani said:
Time will tell as people move their pcs around over time I guess. Electric screwdriver.. seriously?! Although pretty much every heatsink I've used over the years was pretty much immune to over tightening.
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There are some real beasts of people out there. I've dealt with some people who keep tightening screws/bolts/nuts until you can feel the metal notches bend.
 
V F said:
There are some real beasts of people out there. I've dealt with some people who keep tightening screws/bolts/nuts until you can feel the metal notches bend.
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It is essential, for superior contact! :p
 
ukxenon said:
Who would use a electric screw driver , /boggled
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They can be really convenient, and they are safe to use if you have one that has a maximum torque setting. I can tighten a screw by hand to get a feel for how tight it needs to be, then set my drill driver to apply about the same force and no more (it stops turning after it hits that force).
 
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