Quote Originally Posted by Hondacity View Post
did you mean base plate?

is the xt better thermally coz the base plate is sooo much thinner?
What?

I just tried to think of the most round-about way for electrical contact to occur The first thing that came to mind required a Swiftech LGA1366 backplate and a delrin-topped block.

EDIT: the timescales we'll see nickel/copper/brass/chrome-plating galvanic corrosion is an incredibly long time, probably not in our lifetimes.