He is using Indigo, and mentioned he may use standard tim afterwards. But four different orientations of blocks would quadruple the already massive time investment in testing that many blocks. The manufacturer should know best orientation and supply it and test done with that orientation. Testing 4 different tim applications is unnecessary and again quadruples the time for testing...you can get good tim coverage with any of the methods, you just want to use the same method that you can reproducibly and reliably get good coverage. Indigo obviates that anyways, though realize your were speaking after his indigo test with regular tim.
Linx is a variable load program, and will give less accurate results than prime fixed at same ffts. If your using accurate temp probes, running prime (same ffts over and over) you can get repeatable results withing 0.1 to 0.2C with same mount, and no more than 1/2 degree between different mounts (throwing out all obviously bad mounts and controlling mount pressure with hard stop point/etc). Using linx that accuracy decreases as the load/power varies during testing, hence linx is not a good testing program for cpu blocks that only differ by 1-2C. Also using 64 bit prime v27.7 with avx and ivy cpu, my max cpu temps and power draw are similar to linx.
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