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Xeon/Broadwell thermal paste or solder

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Do all xeons from haswell onward use thermal paste under the integrated heat spreader instead solder? Also will the new desktop broadwell cpus use solder under the ihs?

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Yes, after the Broadwell family, all processors use thermal paste under the integrated heat spreader.

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