"PROFESSIONAL REVIEWS:
We're currently working crazy hours to get products out the door right now. So we'll be pushing reviews after:
1) We can handle the sales. We're a small/new company, so we need to scale a bit before Jay or Linus drop a nuke on us
2) We have EU distribution set up. Lots of fans over there, but customs and shipping is brutal, so we want to make sure they're taken care of
3) We finish our full lineup of product. So Threadripper 3 block and GPU block shipping to customers
4) Our marketing guy has time to reach out to reviewers because he's spending like 14 hours a day on forums and emails answering questions. Pity him. And him is me.
USER REVIEWS:
1) - INTEL -
2)
https://www.reddit.com/r/watercoolin...ck_yes_please/
3) 5.0 on 12 core intel:
https://www.reddit.com/r/watercoolin...of_optimus_pc/
4) Other customers that the marketing guy will need more time to dig up
DIE LAYOUT:
1) The important detail to note is our cold plate covers all the chiplets and more. Like I mentioned previously, the surface area of our regular AM4 block is massive, so any amount of concentrated heat -- from one chiplet, two chiplets, single intel beastlet, etc. -- doesn't matter, it's easily wicked away
2) The Foundation block top and cold plate can be rotated any direction. You want to try goofy, go for it.
3) We designed it this way because of the changes to the AMD dies, etc. So you can try it different ways.
4) I believe the IHS text is just "Ryzen" rotated because AMD does that on everything?
5) Does it matter? Yes and no and yes and no. People seem to get 4c+ in any orientation. In the video above, he got 6.5c improvement goofy on intel. With the IHS, the orientation matters less than it would if it were bare die. The heat spreads through the IHS and then through our cold plate. Our fin stack is so fine and the cold plate is so thin, we're able to wick off massive amounts of heat regardless of orientation.
6) When our engineers finish with GPU and Threadripper, they'll revisit Foundation AM4 (it was released before the 3950x came out) with lots of chip samples and mobos to give a more detailed answer for when orientation really matters.
7) Once we have a really detailed understanding, we'll probably release a Signature AM4 block.
MOUNTING:
1) We feel the backplate isn't needed. Look at the pictures in my previous post. Everyone uses our new streamlined mounting and it works great with excellent performance numbers. No destroyed motherboards, no crazy scratches, etc. That's just unfounded speculation and disinformation.
2) We will send out washers if you really, really want them. We feel they make the mounting worse.
3) AM4 motherboards aren't made any differently than Intel motherboards. Or any other mobo on the planet. What works logically for everything else works for AM4. You don't need to use the stock AMD backplate. Really.
RGBS:
1) We're too busy focusing on, ya know, performance and quality to even think about the blink blinks
2) if you really want RGBs, the small LED strips available for mod can be easily stuck to our blocks. It looks cool.
3) We prob won't do RGBs for a long time. There are 100% tradeoffs in engineering for adding RGBs. The little LED holes will leak (this isn't speculation). And stuffing in LED slots and whatnot cause compromises to structural integrity. We spend 0% of our time thinking about RGBs, guaranteed!"
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