Delidding Q's

[Gerard]

Waiting on my delid tool arriving for my 6700k, watched quite a few videos on it and its straightforward enough. Just wondering about the liquid metal application, seen quite a few vids where people are putting a die shaped patch of liquid metal on the inside of the IHS as well as on the die itself. Any particular reason as to why or is this the recommended method? I remember years ago some heat-sink manufacturers advised putting a small amount of paste on the heat-sink as well as the IHS but that practice seems to have gone by the wayside.

Just would have thought doing 2 applications of it would end up with too much, and as its a pain in the arse to remove i'd rather just do it once.

 

[Gerard]

Already got the Coollaboratory Liquid Pro Liquid Metal here, still doesn't really explain why people are putting it on the ihs as well as the die.

 

[Gerard]

Can't believe Intel have made it "mandatory" to have to do this now. What a riot. AMD all the way for my next build. Expensive CPUs should not have junk thermal paste in them. they should be soldered.

Intel made the excuse that it was something to do with the solder deteriorating over time and developing cracks, apparently something to do with the smaller die sizes of some of their chips. Though it seems even with bigger chips like skylake x they're still using bargain basement TIM.

 

[Gerard]

LOL, I love how people think that Intel, a multi billion pound company, doesn't know exactly what they are doing.

We know exactly what they're doing, penny pinching.

 

[Gerard]

But are they? These CPUs are fine with a decent heatsink or aio they even overclock alright and temps stay within the thermal envelope of the CPU.

I might agree if the difference was only a few degrees but people are seeing upto 30c difference. If amd can do it intel have no excuse.

 

[Gerard]

I can understand it perhaps with non-K cpu's but what's the point in putting out unlocked chips with crap compound?

Exactly, its not as if they're already making a lot of money on these chips as they've been in the position for the last lot of years where they could charge what they wanted for them, penny pinching at its finest. And as i said its not like we're seeing minimal differences between Intels bargain bucket TIM and liquid metal, its up-to 30c ffs.

 

[Gerard]

Just delidded my cpu and done the deed. Waiting an hour or so for the glue to dry then gonna plonk it in.

 

[Gerard]

Christ, well that was interesting. The actual delid itself was easy but led to other shenanigans.

Anyway, reinstalled the cpu and powered on, board goes on and off in a loop, end up taking the cpu out and notice a fractionally misaligned pin on the mobo socket. Ended up using my phone camera to zoom in on it and poke it back into place with a pair of tweezers. Before that though i had a stuck sata cable...or what i thought was stuck. Ended up yanking out the actual connector from its pins on the board as i forgot it was a locking cable. Ended up sorting that out as well with the tweezers to line the pins up and it clicked back into place.


Anyway temps wise it seems to be topping out around 60ish at stock speeds, going to try clocking it up a bit and see what happens.

 

[Gerard]

Sounds like you've been having fun . The 2nd image - initially i wasn't sure what i was looking at, that liquid metal stuff looks mental. So how big an improvement over default paste?

Well im running occt now at 4.4ghz maxing at 68c at close to 1.4 volts, would usually be into the 80's by now. My chip isn't the greatest clocker.

 

[Gerard]

 

[Gerard]

12+ degree improvement is decent. Heard some folks get as low as 5. Have fun OC'ing!

lol, fun and overclocking are not 2 things i put together, i find it incredibly tedious to be honest. Used to like doing it years back, these days I've not got the patience for it.