Deleted member 66701
Deleted member 66701
Posted here instead of CPU section as it's more related to overclocking.
Nothing like smacking a 3 week old cpu with a hammer to liven up a dull Tuesday afternoon! No wonder my wife always tries to find stuff to stop me getting bored (oo-er)!
Video:-
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/amigafan2003/media/VIDEO00311_zpsa1c8f822.mp4.html
Get it in a vice - I used electrical tape on the jaws to try to avoid marking the IHS:-
Black adhesive scraped off with a cash card (always useful to have if you kill the cpu) and the core cleaned:-
Inside of the IHS cleaned - you don't have to go mad removing the adhesive on the inside - just clean it off the mating faces:-
CPU dropped into the socket:-
Cool Laborotory Ultra applied to the core and a smear on the inside of the IHS - this stuff is weird and a bugger to apply - it's essentially liquid metal:-
IHS remounted and locked down with the socket hold down plat and a pea sized amount of Gelid GC Extreme - remember to orientate the IHS the right way but it'll be obvious when you try to lock down the plate!:-
Was it worth it? Well, I didn't kill the cpu so that answer might have been different, but here goes:-
That's a whole 25c lower than before. Admidtedly peaks were recorded when at 1.3v but still
Right, lets bump the voltage and see what we can squeeze out of this bad boy
Nothing like smacking a 3 week old cpu with a hammer to liven up a dull Tuesday afternoon! No wonder my wife always tries to find stuff to stop me getting bored (oo-er)!
Video:-
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/amigafan2003/media/VIDEO00311_zpsa1c8f822.mp4.html
Get it in a vice - I used electrical tape on the jaws to try to avoid marking the IHS:-
Black adhesive scraped off with a cash card (always useful to have if you kill the cpu) and the core cleaned:-
Inside of the IHS cleaned - you don't have to go mad removing the adhesive on the inside - just clean it off the mating faces:-
CPU dropped into the socket:-
Cool Laborotory Ultra applied to the core and a smear on the inside of the IHS - this stuff is weird and a bugger to apply - it's essentially liquid metal:-
IHS remounted and locked down with the socket hold down plat and a pea sized amount of Gelid GC Extreme - remember to orientate the IHS the right way but it'll be obvious when you try to lock down the plate!:-
Was it worth it? Well, I didn't kill the cpu so that answer might have been different, but here goes:-
That's a whole 25c lower than before. Admidtedly peaks were recorded when at 1.3v but still
Right, lets bump the voltage and see what we can squeeze out of this bad boy
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