BTS: 3D Imaging of Coldplates for GPU & CPU Coolers (Patreon)

Hi all,

We just bought a very expensive scanner with a NIST-traceable certificate and third-party lab validation for imaging pressure paper to create images that gauge exactly the PSI at a given spot on a heatsink. This will also make it easy for us to create heightmaps and provide an idea for surface flatness, but in actuality, it's technically a measurement only of pressure to a given area. This doesn't necessarily mean a surface is unflat if there's low pressure -- it could just be bad retention kit design, which is something we haven't been able to test before. This new tool will allow us to do that. We're very excited about it. It basically cost an entire month+ of Patreon support to buy, so thank you for helping fund the purchase. I'm still not personally taking much profit from the business (would still make more working my job from before GN!), but I really enjoy investing every dollar back into testing equipment, because it's just what I love working with. The dream is to build a 'real' validation lab, except in a way which is producing public data for reviews. To my knowledge, no one has really done it to quite that extent in technical media before, as most leverage their tools for private test contracts instead. We're trying to figure out how to make it work for public testing, and so far, it seems to be working with GN store + Patreon.

Anyway, the scanner has been through early testing and seems to be producing good data. We hope to apply it to GPU cooler analysis for this review cycle. It will also become a standard part of the CPU cooler test suite.