Ivy Bridge Temperatures Could Be Linked To TIM Inside Integrated Heatspreader: Report

[Ollie1132]

Oven seems saferish xD who doesn't like silicon pie?

 

[Mitzy]

Stock cooler IBi7K here and when under full load I'm hitting 84c. Seems reasonable enough, when idle it sits at 34c.

 

[Ollie1132]

Your still at stock right?

 

[Mitzy]

Your still at stock right?

Yup.

No head room in my mind for an overclock. I'll have to throw some pictures up of the PC at some point, I had never built with a matx case before and hadn't realised how tight it would be.

In all honesty though, I cant see any reason for an OC at the moment though, I'm really impressed by the little bugger.

Unboxing the CPU it was weird looking at it, not much bigger than a 50 pence piece but worth 500 times that. My only real judge of performance so far has been running SETI@Home full load and being able to do everything else on the PC with o slow downs.

 

[pmc25]

Why did i not think of an oven? I blowdried and cut the adhesive whilst on a vice

Don't feel too bad. Took me about 3 days to think of it.

 

[Vimes]

Just flipped the lid off my 3570k and applied the Liquid Pro which came today from OC - along with a sweety bag

Temps seem to have come down around 15c under 100% load so it really has made a difference in the temps across the four cores.

I only applied it under the IHS.

 

[Nathkrul]

Hiya guyz, took the lid of my CPU today, first time for me, but found it really easy to do.

I used a double edged shaving blade, I rounded one edge off just in case I slashed my finger open, got it removed after about 10 mins, had to put a lot of pressure on the corners to get it started but once it got under, it was all over for the lid.

I lapped the bottom edge of the lid just in case it was uneven, which it was and I also lapped the top a little and gave the inside a nice shiny clean up.

I dont have any decent thermal paste until that Liquid Pro turns up on Tuesday so just used the k2 I got from XSPC, applied it with my finger, turned on pc and this is what I got.

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After

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[-Mike-]

Good job mate Interesting to see that a tidy up and relatively normal thermal compound makes a difference too!

 

[Freddie1980]

Good job mate Interesting to see that a tidy up and relatively normal thermal compound makes a difference too!

Makes you wonder who is supplying Intel with their gunk.

 

[HankScorpio]

How do you glue the lid back on once you remove the adhesive?

 

[nickeverett]

How do you glue the lid back on once you remove the adhesive?

i think people just hold it in place with the heatsink

 

[Nathkrul]

Here is my temps @ 4.7ghz instead of 4.4ghz using liquid pro which arrived today, I put it on the CPU chip itself but also wiped a lot off just make sure the heat spreader had very close contact with the silicon.

Put some between the water block and chip and again wiped a lot off, bare in mind that I only put a very small amount on as well, seems that just the tiniest amount goes a long way with this stuff.

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[Nathkrul]

How do you glue the lid back on once you remove the adhesive?

You don't need to m8, the CPU clamp will hold it in place..

So hard to believe that just early last week at just 4.6ghz I was hitting 95c and above, to the point where OCCT wouldn't run because the default thermal limit had been reached lol.

What a difference a week makes, don't be afraid to de-lid your CPU lads its a piece of ****, just use a razor blade as I did..

 

[Freddie1980]

Here is my temps @ 4.7ghz instead of 4.4ghz using liquid pro which arrived today, I put it on the CPU chip itself but also wiped a lot off just make sure the heat spreader had very close contact with the silicon.

Put some between the water block and chip and again wiped a lot off, bare in mind that I only put a very small amount on as well, seems that just the tiniest amount goes a long way with this stuff.

Thanks for posting. I take you bought the XSPC Raystrom waterblock hence why in your first test you compared the stock performance against the K2 grease. I was wondering how good k2 was but now seeing your results I'm glad I bought the Prolimatech PK-1.

I have to say that performance is amazing, given you running at 4.7Ghz a full 300mhz above your previous overclock and with cooler temps. Can you test again at 4.4 so we have a like for like comparison?

 

[Nathkrul]

I bought the XSPC Rasa CPU Water block, Laing 18W DDC-Pump 12V DDC-1T Plus pump and res and a 240mm rad.
The only annoying part of the whole kit is the high pressure noise at the CPU Block, its not air just water pressure, tho suppose its better than none. I did try my laing 440ltr h pump but the pressure noise was the same.

Yeh I'll post a 4.4ghz test using prime.

 

[Nathkrul]

There you go 4.4ghz, note that earlier room temp was 22.4c ish, its now 24c. Even though only did it for 15mins you get the jist of temps.
Forgot to add that I'll be adding a ek360 60mm rad in place of the 240rad.

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[Tonester0011]

You're making me want to delid mine...

Let me get my WC setup done, then i'm doing it...LOL

 

[Jay85]

If you can't put the lid back on properly what will this do to warranty? Surely your 3 year warranty will be out the window?

 

[Nathkrul]

As soon as you start cutting with the blade your warranty is gone anyway, it aint like intel are gonna put some decent thermal paste between the chip and heat spreader are they?

Just cut the lid off and get on with it m8, if you want good temps you'll have to do it to be honest, more so if you want to overclock it because it doesn't matter what type of cooling you use it wont lower the temps unless you de-lid it.

And the proofs in the pudding, look at my temps much lower now, glad I took the plunge

 

[-Mike-]

I'm very very tempted to try this given that the poster above said he got a decent temperature improvement by changing it to some that isn't even the fabled liquid metal pro!