Anyone successfully delid a 8700k?

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I’m tempted to do it to my brand new 8700k, but I’m a little worried to say the least... does ocuk offer delid CPU’s or is it worth the risk doing it myself?
 
Someone on the Linus YouTube delid video gave some sage advice. He said that delidding is a good idea when you are thinking of upgrading and want to get a better cpu and decide you can just delid your cpu and get those extra overclocks without spending the money. And if you break your cpu, no matter you were going to buy another anyway. So I’m going to do that. Unless I have a really shoddy chip I think I’ll just do a relatively simple OC and be happy with the temps until I decide I need more power.

It’s annoying that there is a site in the US that does professional delidding for literally peanuts... we need one over here!

Edit - also found someone that can do it for £13.99 so that’s cheaper than buying the tool to do it myself...
 
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energizer123 said:
Decided to finally take care of business and de-lid. I think this is the only way i will be able to look my friends and family in the eye again.

Ordered the tool and der8auer tool and thermal grizzly liquid metal from here. I won't be regluing the IHS. I've read some people talk about putting nail polish on anything exposed should the liquid metal get off the die. Does anyone bother with this? Also what is to prevent the liquid metal migrating off the die. I assume it's because it's such a thin layer?

I'll let you know how i get on. I'm on a 7700k currently getting 5 Ghz and gets to 85 max at gaming averages high 60's. Have my fans and pump all set to max so be nice to bring that down a bit and maybe get to 5.1.
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Good luck! I’ve decided to get a guy off the bay that lives quite close to me to delid for £13.99. He has high rating and has apparently successfully delid over 100 cpus. So cheaper than doing it myself!
 
Bowie92 said:
Been tempted to go for one of these services as I can't justify the expense of a delid tool, liquid metal and sealer just for one use. Let me know how you get on.

I do note there's two on eBay who seem to be offering the service and they've had a bit of a price war the past week! Now a whole £1 cheaper than this time last week :D
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I’ve noticed that. I’m going for the guy I believe is in West Drayton, which isn’t too far from me.
 
Bowie92 said:
Are you just going to go in person then?
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Thinking about it... also tempted to just go for one of the OCUK delid cpus as it’s good for peace of mind and I’m guessing they are under warranty with OcUK? I’m just confused what they are selling at OcUK.

There is a 8086k for 545 ish but it’s hard to tell if that’s just a delid one? It says binned... are they saying it will only reach 4.9? I’m confused by it. Seems overly pricey for a cpu that isn’t guaranteed to go beyond 4.9. Thought 4.9 is the minimum of you should expect on these cpus...
 
acemastr said:
Takes 10mins to delid and there's really not much risk involved. You're paying for them to guarantee it'll hit a specific frequency on a select few boards.
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Well I’m just confused by their whole store front when it comes to pre binned, de-lid cpus etc. Do they have a warranty on it? Is it just de-lid for that initial price? Is t just de-lid for that initial price... what???

And to get the equipment to do it would cost upward of £50-60 anyways...

The best option seems to be to get someone else to do it for peanuts, but that would require I buy the cpu test it out. Take it out again, send it off or deliver it personally and then put it back in again.
 
LuckyBenski said:
I used a vice, I have a nice compact metal one which did the job perfectly. It only takes a minute so if you know someone with a workshop, it's worth buying them a beer!
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Not sure I do lol. I’m just confused by https://www.overclockers.co.uk/inte...e-socket-lga1151-processor-oem-cp-00c-8p.html

Is this guaranteed to work at 4.9 max or 4.9-5.2 max? Is this just de-lid or pre binned? It’s just not clear. If it’s 4.9 max and at this price it’s a major rip off! I mean all of these chips reach this speed minimum right?
 
ViRuS2k said:
LMFAO

8 pack is charging you very high premium for a delid job lol

  • 4.9-5.2Ghz capable
Go ahead a buy it :) be the premium puppet. im guessing most of those cpus would be 4.9+ capable even without the delid as delid has nothing to do with silicon lotto just temps.
i suggest you buy the cpu from somewhere else and delid it yourself and save yourself a lot of cash in the process as all your buying in that deal is a delid and silver ihs. for insane price uplift.
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If I did buy it I’d expect 5.1 as standard, but I wouldn’t expect OcUK to send me a 5.2 if they found one. They’d probably save it for the £800+ model of 5.2 confirmed, which to me isn’t very customer friendly.

They should send me whatever they find when they delid the cpu and not move onto one that won’t clock high... that would be the luck of the draw in the truest sense. Alternatively they should also not keep going until they find me one that is +4.9Ghz...

Basically what I am saying is that whatever chip they open and whatever the results may be should be the one they send, but there is no way in confirming if they do this. Literally zero other than their word.

I don’t know. Maybe @8Pack can shed some light on this?
 
ViRuS2k said:
Its all lucrative stuff these days with OCUK and there delids.
you never truly know what your getting now like the above link 4.9+ - 5.2 capable ? thats like saying here we will sell you this car thats stated in having a remap that does 350bhp but when you get the car it turns out it didnt have a remap and was only 300bhp. - did you pay for the 300bhp or the 350bhp lol

i would stick with what i said when it comes to buying cpus my advice would be to buy your OEM cpu or even retail for that matter as its pretty simple to get a intel security seal, from anywhere other than OCUK and delid it yourself that way there is no tampering/testing to see if the chip falls into the golden sample lineup of OCUKs mega build systems. or into a pile batch cpus and sent out the 4.9 cpus to customers with shiny IHS and labeled 5.2 capable ....

just my advice others might see it as different but cause ocuk have gotten into this business of delid and binning there is only there word that the cpu you get can truly hit the speeds they say until its in your system yourself, as they can factor stuff into it like cooling or motherboard or other factors to say it wont do this or that due to different hardware that was tested when they tested the chip you get.
the only way to truly get a cpu is to pay really high premiums on ocuk that do infact state the correct binning speeds or to buy prebuilt systems that they send out that are infact those speeds so that no other factors fall into the problems of not being able to hit them...
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I see where you are coming from. Wise words, but I already went for it as I’m being extremely lazy and giving OcUK the benifit of the doubt. If they send me a 4.9 GHz and I paid 565 for it I will not be pleased that’s for sure. I will send it back for a refund.
 
Quick update on this. My CPU FINALLY got sent out yesterday about 7 days after the order was placed... but today it never arrived. Instead apparently dpd delivered it to the wrong address!

I’ve called OcUK and dpd and I’m getting nowhere. All I’m told is that it might take 5 working days to sort out the issue!

All in all I would likely buy my own cpu and delid it. Would have had it last week and delid it it all within one day.

Now I’m stuck with no cpu and no idea when I’ll get it if I ever do!
 
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