Quote Originally Posted by churchy View Post
Waterlogged: yet imho best results are reachable only with using TIM, and taking #1 or #2 position of performance might give extra boost to sales justifying a bit those risks.
Or people could just use better performing thermal pads

Investigation of that is for another test and another day (though nothing on either of our radar's), but the provided thermal pads are definitely not all equal among the manus.

Quote Originally Posted by Boogerlad View Post
It would be cool to throw in results of core only gpu and sinks for comparison. That will cut down the myth if any of core>fc for performance.
That's for another test, which is being put into motion

The best tests I've ever seen on the matter are gabe's MCW80 vs. MCW60 vs. eVGA FTW block, where the core blocks + unisink were better for GPU temps. So I'd say that, until further notice, core blocks are probably better