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Christopher Harper

Der8auer admits he 'messed up' with underperforming Thermal Grizzly Heatspreaders and Direct Die coolers

Pressure-sensitive paper used to test CPU die contact for different designs for Thermal Grizzly's Heatspreader.

Yesterday, der8auer speaking in his capacity as CEO of Thermal Grizzly, released a statement on YouTube apologizing for the underperforming Intel High Performance Heatspreader (HPHS) V1 and Intel Mycro Direct Die V1 units, which were recently released touting cooling improvements of up to 15 degrees Celsius. Some defective units, however, precipitated thermals even warmer than the default CPU configurations.

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