Quote Originally Posted by docwhom View Post
Damn, here I was thinking that AMD took the high road when it came to NOT using plain CHEAP horrible paste as their heat transfer mechanism. I now give up, why do they all stick together when offering terrible solutions for attaching IHS's to their cpu's?

Thank you Ket for opening my ignorant eyes towards this now "normal" situation amongst all CPU manufacturers. Now let me go drown in some tequila .......for tonight.
I'm afraid a single bottle might not be enough once you read what I type next.. delidded a couple A64 CPUs and these ones had some sort of yellowish waxy-like TIM under the hood... CPU makers should just do the right thing and not fix the IHS to the CPU, let the user pick their TIM of choice to use.