Is delidding worthwhile without liquid metal style thermal paste?

[Wing-Man]

maybe do some research mate its not well worse than paste and its great for direct die without pumpout issue, why do you think its used on nvidia gpu and lenovo gaming laptops

On a gpu it’s good on a cpu it’s not so good because of die size.
You must be using it right? What chip speed and temp???

Edit: well??? @Alt0153

If you look into testing the difference is massive at removing hotspots because the temperature is spread out in the pad very fast.
But at transfer from die to pad to heat sink it’s just 1or2 degrees

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

so again.. under normal load(what you do with the system) what temps do you see?
if all you do is light gaming and random internet carp to the max temp you see is 60c. what wrong with 60c?

is 0.1v(1.4v) for an extra 100mhz worth pulling the CPU to bits and messing about with it. NO
if you set 1.4v for 4.9Ghz what temps do you see when using the system in a day to day scenario?

i use LM on everything so im not the person say DONT, im just saying is it worth it for 100mhz when your only at 60c

Been playing a few more games and it hits around 79ºC (while playing CK3).
Not the end of the world I guess, it's just frustrating because the air coming off the cooler is pretty much still cold.

If it needs 1.4v for 4.9 ghz don't bother deliding at all. It's a dud. Your average 8700k should be hitting 5.1 ghz with 1.35volts.

Yeah, would be par for the course for me to get a dud, that's what usually seems to happen. I think it's tacking about 1.29v to be close to stable at 4.8GHz, I don't see it hitting 5.1Ghz (+300MHz) with just an extra 0.06v.