Skylake Delid

[Nickolp1974]

It seems as though Intel are using rubbish TIM between the IHS and die again, an 18c drop in temps once the delid procedure has been performed, click HERE for more details.

 

[Nickolp1974]

People will crush the die.

Pentium IIIs were shipped with no IHS, but the die wasn't fragile.

Exactly this, rma knightmare! Not sure why they dont solder all chips and just charge £5-10 extra and i'm sure people won't mind that??

 

[Nickolp1974]

Can't believe we're looking at another generation of delidding, Intel really don't give a ****.

I think that you have to look at this another way, i've dellided 3770 & 4770, both were only average chips and yes i got lower temps but overclockability remained the same as i previously wasn't temp limited anyway on a very good custom WC setup. Delidding would help either for air cooling to get a bit more or if you end up with a better than average chip/golden that scales well with volts, for all other uses in-between the TIM is good enough, if it hits 85-90c under a heavy 100% load then thats fine as its still within intel specs. Its kinda a 50/50 argument as to why its just crap and as to why its ok.
If it costs intel 2pence for the crap TIM and 10pence to solder over say 10 million units sold then thats a lot of money for the bussiness.

 

[Nickolp1974]

It would be worth more money to do the job properly, do some marketing of the benefits, and then charge £5 more. No individual is going to miss that, but for Intel, all those £4.90s will add up.

I couldn't agree more and i'd personally pay more for a proven overclocker and i'd pay even more if that proven OC did it at ultra low volts but Intel won't do this so its down to either the retailer or consumer to bin and improve the product at the expense of possibly voiding the warranty.

 

[Nickolp1974]

Maybe the 'poor' TIM is there to cause overheating issues well before an overclocker could push the voltage to damaging levels.

It could be a cunning plan by intel, extreme overclocker delids and gets 6.5ghz+ on LN2, gaming folk want faster speeds after seeing gains from de-lidding, have a go themselves, nick the pcb in the process and warranty is now void so they buy another