Copper Shims, or spacers as some like to call them, have become very popular among the Intel/AMD crowd. These thin slabs of copper help to evenly distribute hit from the CPU to the heatsink, and also serve double purpose as a preventative measure cutting down on the breakage of cores (mainly among AMD CPUs). The copper shim used in this review was from nerdsbyte, and is specifically designed for AMD Socket A processors.

Installation

The shim is fairly easy to install, simply situate it in the correct position over the AMD processor, and then place your heatsink/fan on top. Duh, but you already knew that right?

How does it cool?

If you're thinking about buying one of these to cool your CPU even more, don't. In our tests the copper shim was only able to lower the temp about 1-2 degrees C, hardly worth spending the $13 on, especially if you're buying it for that reason alone.

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