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More importantly: Why is the thermal paste used for Ivy Bridge & Haswell SO BAD. Due to this you need to de-lid the CPU, replace the thermal paste, then relid it and THEN apply your own thermal paste & cooler to get any good cooling (& thus overclocking) results, which is a dangerous process than can make a very expensive CPU a very dead CPU very quickly.

And even ignoring this, the paste & the way it is placed is so bad that you get uneven temperatures between cores, even without any overclocking, simply because the heat is not being spread equally.

If you're unwilling to use high quality thermal paste & placement AND are unwilling to use solder on chip, why not just leave the lid out entirely instead? It's not like you haven't done it before.

Please inform yourself about the criticisms numerous scientists have given of Steven Pinker's books. He's VERY bad at math and more importantly understanding data, and a lot of great scientists are rightfully very upset at him for his misleading books.

It IS frustrating though. Especially since it even decreases the lifetime of non-overclocked CPUs because the paste & the placement of the paste are not very well done, leading to uneven temperatures between cores.

Your brain is made of A LOT of very special cells that each can keep a very very tiny memory, much smaller than ANY memory you have. Scientists call these cells "Neurons". Neurons 'talk' to each by long, thin strings that reach out at other neurons. These strings are called "Axons". Where an axon meets another neuron, they form a special 'bridge' to connect. Scientists call these bridges "Synapses".

Here's a picture

Some neurons talk to each other a lot, but some only talk very little to each other. The more neurons talk to each other, the more powerful a synapse becomes, and the other way around.

Very smart scientists have good reason to think that the way your normal (big!) memories are kept in your brain is related to how the synapses change in strength. They also think that when a synapse changes strength, ONLY the strength of the synapse changes. stuckingradschool's found out that that's not true, and that other stuff that has nothing to do with the synapse itself also happens.

tl;dr: /r/explainlikeimfive has become a joke, people don't explain it like you should explain something to a 5 year old anymore, they explain it dumbed down. 5 year olds aren't dumb. They just don't know big words because they're five years old.

Further tl;dr: stuckingradschool needs to re-learn simple speech, it's not that hard.

Edit I corrected the errors. I really shouldn't be talking this kind of stuff after a 10 hour shift and terrible stress.

I'll just leave this here...