Going to be putting a water cooled 5820K system together over the Christmas break and was wondering whether it is still worth bothering to lap the heat spreaders on cpus nowadays. Current rig is an i7 950 and is lapped, and the one before that I also lapped. Do modern cpus benefit from it much given they are supposed to run cooler. Will be trying to get a reasonable overclock of course but not going for anything mental, so is lapping still the done thing or has it gone out of fashion?
Lapping cpu worth it these days?
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I lapped the IHS on my 4670k when I delidded it as it was massively concave. If anything Ivybridge and Haswell cpu's have run hotter due to Intel not soldering the IHS on anymore. This is why people like me delid their cpu's to get the temps back down to where they should be. Most of us stick the IHS back on after using the likes of Coolaboratory Liquid Pro between the die and IHS but still get a temperature drop of 15-20 degrees.
I believe Haswell E that you are getting are still soldered so no need for you to go to these extremes. From what I have seen on here overclocked 5820k's seem to have decent temps.
I believe Haswell E that you are getting are still soldered so no need for you to go to these extremes. From what I have seen on here overclocked 5820k's seem to have decent temps.
Not really worth it tbh, in normal use the 5820k is a cool enough running chip even when clocked. On standard haswell, delidding always yielded much better results. Its only with stress tests such as later versions of p95 that modern chips get really hot, and tbh no one really advocates the use if prime now. Far better to leave the chip as it is and keep your warranty. Then just test with normal use tasks.
Definitely at the age where you just want to stuff everything in the case and press "on" and forget about it.