MSI Releases CPU GUARD 1151 To Protect Your Skylake CPU From Bending

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MSI has received news from various media websites about possible bending of Intel® 6th Generation Processors when using heavy-weight cooling solutions. Possible bending might not occur straight away, however, as your system sits on its desk or moving it anywhere, could result in unwanted effects. To make sure you will never encounter this problem we developed the CPU GUARD 1151 to protect your Socket 1151 Intel® Xeon® E3 v5 / Core™ / Pentium® or Celeron® processor which strengthens the corners to withstand more vertical pressure.

Besides protecting your CPU, the CPU GUARD 1151 is also the perfect tool for anyone looking to ‘delid’ their 6th Generation Intel® processor. When re-applying the IHS, the design of the CPU GUARD 1151 tightly locks the HIS ensuring it will stay in its place and you will never have to worry about optimal thermal performance or it moving. Recently the CPU GUARD 1151 was used during an overclocking event, helping top overclockers push their Skylake CPU to the max, breaking world records.
 
Does it also act as a spacer for direct die mounting of the heat-sink?
 
Yay, I remember when we had those for socket-A processors to protect the die.

I somehow think this is a step backwards and am hoping Intel will change something next go around.
 
another thing I would wonder is how does it interface with current cooling systems. will it need new standoffs for water block solutions and such. Seeing as I have a 6700k it looks like something I could consider getting.
 
Is this an accessory you can buy and retrofit a Z170 board?

Or does it simply come with the board as standard from now on??
 
Hmm, I was thinking about getting a Noctua NH-D15. Maybe I will have to go with water cooling then. I just don't trust wc not to leak on the gpu or the pump motor not to fail within a few years.
 
That isn't necessary, stick with your NH-D15 choice if that's what you want. Noctua's backplate system is excellent and their heatspreaders are fairly flat. I'd imagine you would not be moving around a rig that has a NH-D15 a lot, either.
 
MRAB54 said:
So this is like the old athlon xp cpu shim?
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Kinda -- except those were to protect the die and this is more to protect the pcb, although I suppose if you go bare-die it would help protect the die but I am not sure how tall it is -- it may be shorter than the die so in that case it wouldn't help.

But heh, I do remember those shims and I even had several of them myself.
 
Scythe just sent its customers (including yours truly) a stack of washers to elevate the bars on which the HSF is screwed down some. I assume they know what they're doing...

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