I’ve just received the new Thermal Grizzly Contact Frame and noticed that it doesn’t have any insulation / plastic bottom like the Thermalright so it’s the aluminum is actually touching the board without protection? What the?
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TG doesn’t have anything down there. The install process is VERY specific on how to install and that includes only an extra 90 degree turn after encountering ANY resistance (aside from just spinning down the screw/bolt). So that means, there is no contact between the frame and board.
As such, all the frame is doing is holding the CPU in place. It doesn’t need any additional torquing or resting on the board.
I like Thermalright’s version because it makes it a lot easier to instal, just torque till it stops (without forcing it). But at the same time, I worry of the frame isn’t thick enough, will there be too much force on the DPU.
No there is a new version out that lies on the motherboard and doesn’t hold on the CPU.
You just screw it handtight like the TR.
However it doesn’t have the plastic padding underneath the Frame like the TR:
https://www.thermal-grizzly.com/en/products/638-cpu-contact-frame-for-13th-gen-intel-by-der8auer-en
Oh lol, about time they updated that creep, I had to go thru that counterintuitive installation process only to find out he changed the mechanism now.
Yeah but it doesn’t have any padding underneath which is bad, the thermalright frame has it.
Why is it bad tho? You afraid it would leave marks and void warranty?