Tuesday, December 15th 2015
MSI Announces CPU Guard 1151
MSI has received news from various media websites about possible bending of Intel 6th Generation Processors when using heavy-weight cooling solutions. Possible bending might not occur straight away, however, as your system sits on its desk or moving it anywhere, could result in unwanted effects. To make sure you will never encounter this problem we developed the CPU GUARD 1151 to protect your Socket 1151 Intel Xeon E3 v5 / Core / Pentium or Celeron processor which strengthens the corners to withstand more vertical pressure.
Besides protecting your CPU, the CPU GUARD 1151 is also the perfect tool for anyone looking to 'delid' their 6th Generation Intel processor. When re-applying the IHS, the design of the CPU GUARD 1151 tightly locks the HIS ensuring it will stay in its place and you will never have to worry about optimal thermal performance or it moving. Recently the CPU GUARD 1151 was used during an overclocking event, helping top overclockers push their Skylake CPU to the max, breaking world records.
Besides protecting your CPU, the CPU GUARD 1151 is also the perfect tool for anyone looking to 'delid' their 6th Generation Intel processor. When re-applying the IHS, the design of the CPU GUARD 1151 tightly locks the HIS ensuring it will stay in its place and you will never have to worry about optimal thermal performance or it moving. Recently the CPU GUARD 1151 was used during an overclocking event, helping top overclockers push their Skylake CPU to the max, breaking world records.
16 Comments on MSI Announces CPU Guard 1151
A CPU shim,.....
I haven't seen one of those since my AMD XP 1900+ CPU,......
It just also helps with those who want to delid their CPU's.
sure it guarantees that the cpu wont move outside of the socket, but wasnt the problem related to the cpu being pushed too far into the socket damaging the interposer and/or the motherboard socket pins? the coolers will keep contact with the cpu ihs, this shim wont do anything against that...
You, sir, should not have any issues with a system laying flat. you just got a bum chip or something methinks.
The points of greatest stress are the corners of the IHS. The guard doesn't make significant contact with the IHS. And the part of metal plate that they think will provide the counter pressure on top of the PCB won't do that. Because the problem is that the CPU socket on the motherboard has cavities where those IHS corners push on the PCB. So it will still bend, because the "sandwich" is incomplete.
trog
Always is better if you upgrade 3-4 months after launch date. That's enough to people recognize similar issue and maybe make other decision.
If someone invest first week in Skylake he need to find other solutions, who prepare to upgrade now maybe this little problems with other advantage of six cores is chance to people choose Wellsburg Haswell-EP for now and delay Skylake until Intel present Lewisburg with six channel DDR4 memory, 20 lanes on PCH and 48 with new processors.
X99 is not bad investment, one chipset is long time on market. When Broadwell-E show up Haswell-E will be 2 years old and Broadwell-E will work arround 18 months at least before new socket and chipset if in mean time everything is OK.
That said, the waterblock mounts doesn't have 'stops' so it is likely my fault due to over tightening.
trog
Now, in looking a lot closer at the device, particularly the top two corners in the image provided above (or if you adjust brightness you can see that on the bottom two corners), we can see the corners sticking out THROUGH this new device. That leads me to believe, but of course cannot confirm with 100% certainty, that as Shihastru said, the "sandwhich" is actually complete. I could be wrong, but, it seems like there is some height to the device where the CPU almost slides in it (or has something under it) and then you mount it to the board. If it is just on top and there is nothing below it to support it and prevent the bending, then I agree.