I don't see why not though you'd have to be careful and a thinner pad would always be better as you'd still have to have TIM between the shim and the blokc.
This is true - some manufacturers have said this is why they do it, and we've seen problems in the past with certain boards when block manufacturers haven't taken this into account. E.G. 7970 Lightning. It depends what you want really, safety vs cooling. At this point it would be rare for any full cover waterblock to throttle the card based on temps so if that's your metric then any is acceptable I would say. Personally I like "the best" which to me means cooling everything as well as can be in the hope that it gives longer lives to the components etc etc
Thanks Martin - yes I would agree with you. The titan core results were close already and I think these will be even closer! Yes the AC active backplate is really cool and performs well but it certainly isn't cheap.
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