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Some warning regarding Skylake CPUs and third party coolers

Intel Skylake CPUs are bending under the pressure of some coolers

http://www.pcgamer.com/intel-skylake-cpus-are-bending-under-the-pressure-of-some-coolers/?utm_content=buffer68f30&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=buffer_pcgfb

And here's the proof

Note how Haswell (left) is thicker than Skylake (right)?



Please excuse my bad English.

Former gaming PC: i5-4670k@stock (for now), 16Gb RAM 1600 MHz and a GTX 1070

Current gaming PC: R5-7600, 32GB RAM 6000MT/s (CL30) and a RX 9060XT 16GB

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