De-lidded 3770k!!

nice one B, your a brave man after the first attempt.;) did you notice a gap in the sealant, bottom/middle, some threads are saying there is one which would make life easier.
 
Well done Brian, surprised you resisted the urge for as long as you did lol! good temps!

Mines under water now and its a good 8c cooler then yours, and its silly quiet... I've only got the one small rad but will be getting a second much larger and more fans so temps will only come down!

Get it watercooled!
 
I didn't notice any gap, no one has mentioned it before! :p Very glad it was successful!

I was so shocked at how well the TIM spreader cut my IHS off. Using that was too easy and it can't damage the pcb at all.

@Demons, that sounds great, I'd love to have my CPU in the 50's at load. I guess I'd have a £200 budget for watercooling, only CPU. Can fit 2x280mm rads in my case but will have a look at what to get. :D

update: Happy at 4.7 on air, similar temps to my 4.5 before delidding.
 
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I didn't notice any gap, no one has mentioned it before! :p Very glad it was successful!

I was so shocked at how well the TIM spreader cut my IHS off. Using that was too easy and it can't damage the pcb at all.

@Demons, that sounds great, I'd love to have my CPU in the 50's at load. I guess I'd have a £200 budget for watercooling, only CPU. Can fit 2x280mm rads in my case but will have a look at what to get. :D

update: Happy at 4.7 on air, similar temps to my 4.5 before delidding.
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I got myself the XSPC D5 EX240 Kit and its great, although i'm adding to it already but thats mainly for the GPU.

At least the spreader came in useful, i found it cr@p at actually spreading the paste lol!

What vcore you at now for 4.7?
 
I don't like spreading paste, I use grain of rice method it works best for me!

4.7 Vcore is about 1.356V, from 1.248V at 4.5. Quite bad really. :D Not sure if it's 100% stable yet. :p Temps are 70, same as my 4.5Ghz before delidding. This would get to 86C before, shows how bad the Intel TIM is...
 
Well done lad! That was pretty much how I felt but X2 with a 3770K :D. Thought it was done for when I accidentally nicked the die. Mine was really hard to cut into as well the PCB bent so much I thought it was going to crack. Definitely not as easy as I thought!
 
Interesting thread, I have a couple of thoughts..

Has anyone tried Silicone remover to soften that sealer ?

Strikes me if you use a blade, what they call an "edge sharpened" would be the way to go, use the bevel side flat against the board and cut at the heat spreader side of the silicon.

Interesting to discover the Sandy's were soldered..explains a few things including how bad TIM is ;)
 
You just need a flat strong blade to get under the IHS at first, it's not hard to cut through the sealant at all. The sealant was really soft on both of mine. The risks for me were the die and cutting into the PCB which is really delicate and the blade MUST be kept FLAT and not be flexible. Stanley blade was alright, a thinner blade if strong enough would be better though. I really recommend using a thin plastic spreader or similar to get the rest of the sealant off though, reduces the risk.

I think I will try the Liquid Metal and see if it helps temps more, but tbh I am trying to figure out a cpu watercooling loop!
 
just looked at my cpu again,i cant even get the blade between the heatsink and pcb!!! no way im gonna scalp it without killing it,it looks far easier to me to dremmel round it three sides n peel the top up n replace the paste and pull back down,could even solder it closed as its copper if you wanted too
 
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just looked at my cpu again,i cant even get the blade between the heatsink and pcb!!! no way im gonna scalp it without killing it,it looks far easier to me to dremmel round it three sides n peel the top up n replace the paste and pull back down,could even solder it closed as its copper if you wanted too
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One slip with a dremmel and it'll be toast for sure, and they snag and stuff, you would need to be brave to put a dremmel near it.

Would love to do mine, got it at 4.5ghz, 1.24v and it still hits 75c while gaming, with core temp, why is core temp hotter than real temp by the way?
Mine is probably a little bit warmer as I feed it two GTX 480's right before it in the loop:) I think I may consider another pump and run seperate loops to see if my temps will come down some.

There must be a really safe way of doing it, is there nothing that will disolve the sealeant?
 
I tried using dremel to clean the sealant off but it snagged and sent my chip flying lol. It is very scary cutting through the first part tbh. As long as you have the black FLAT and be careful of where the blade tip is you should be okay really. The only thing I did different this time was use a different blade!

I don't see how you can dissolve the sealant when the sealant isn't really exposed? You pretty much have to FORCE the blade between the IHS and PCB, so much so that it bends the chip itself.

Maybe WD40, but then you have to clean it off lol.

Oh, just use realtemp, or set the TJMax in Coretemp so you have the same temps.
 
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One slip with a dremmel and it'll be toast for sure, and they snag and stuff, you would need to be brave to put a dremmel near it.

Would love to do mine, got it at 4.5ghz, 1.24v and it still hits 75c while gaming, with core temp, why is core temp hotter than real temp by the way?
Mine is probably a little bit warmer as I feed it two GTX 480's right before it in the loop:) I think I may consider another pump and run seperate loops to see if my temps will come down some.

There must be a really safe way of doing it, is there nothing that will disolve the sealeant?
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highest mine goes is 56c when gaming,it takes temps from different sesors one on the chip and one on the mb,realtemp i find the best and always go off coretemps

if you clamped the chip carefully im pretty sure you could dremmel it off,if you did use sealent disolver youd have to be carefull it didnt affect the pcb and whatever its made out of
 
It's a tight for and getting the first corner off is the hardest, the pcb does bend by about 3mm whilst doing it and it looks like you have messed it right up, mine had been cranked tight with the silver arrow many times so it was tight.
 
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