Hole in Sandy Bridge-E Heatspreader

[OCGL16]

Although i've seen LGA 2011 cpu's all the time, i didn't realize until today that they all have a single hole in the corner of their heat spreader. Can someone tell me what it's for and if it would be bad if thermal past got in the hole?

 

[Anonymous_26]

Although i've seen LGA 2011 cpu's all the time, i didn't realize until today that they all have a single hole in the corner of their heat spreader. Can someone tell me what it's for and if it would be bad if thermal past got in the hole?

I also noticed that in an old Pentium 4 Wilmette CPU and that was something I wondered about to.

 

[OCGL16]

All I could find online was that it was for some sensor on lga 2011.

 

[unksol]

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