Ivy Bridge Delidding Woes

GMPoisoN · Jun 6, 2013

I'll be building my rig in 2 weeks, including an i5 4670k. I hear they run hot, as the 3570k does, and am considering delidding.

Take note I will only be doing this if I can't get a decent overclock with decent temps. I will only delid out of the box if someone can convince me not to be paranoid to death. Taking a hammer to a $249.99 cpu scares the living shit out of me. I am of course referring to the vice method (which after comparing to the blade method, looks safer), but if it can save me 10-30 C (as some delidders have experienced), I'm willing to do it, cpu will last longer, less heat, more performance, overall win.

Any thoughts, suggestions?

ihog · Jun 6, 2013

I delidded my 3570K with a razor. It was very simple, but you need to be very careful not to hit the die. Also, make sure you get off all of the glue on the PCB, because the glue is the reason why the temps are so high. It creates too much of a gap between the IHS and the die. This is also why some people did not see any significant temperature decrease--either there was not too much glue or they did not remove enough of it.

GMPoisoN · Jun 6, 2013

ihog :

Thank's for that. I'm thinking of practicing first on an old chip, would an Intel Pentium in an old PC of mine work the same way, delidding wise?

Edit: 4670k only $199.99 from Microcenter.

babernet_1 · Jun 6, 2013

http://www.overclock.net/t/1397672/deliding-a-4770k-haswell-improving-temperatures-and-maximizing-overclockablity

Here's a huge thread on Haswell delidding. As you can see in the third message, he got 18 degrees cooler. There were nice rumors Intel wouldn't perform this abomination on Haswell like they did on Ivy Bridge, but they did. We need AMD to get in gear and put out a stellar chip to get Intel off its rear.

redeemer · Jun 6, 2013

If you are afraid of losing your cpu via de-lidding death,..than de-lidding is not for you

ihog · Jun 6, 2013

GMPoisoN :

ihog :

Thank's for that. I'm thinking of practicing first on an old chip, would an Intel Pentium in an old PC of mine work the same way, delidding wise?

Edit: 4670k only $199.99 from Microcenter.

It depends. It might have the IHS soldered on.

GMPoisoN · Jun 6, 2013

redeemer :

Well, you can't tell me that the concept of taking a hammer or razor blade to an expensive piece of computer isn't the slightest bit daunting, for someone that hasn't done it before. I hear the vice way is much more fool proof

since all you're doing is whacking the side of top of it until it slides off.

After reading more and more, watching more and more, I'm coming closer to wanting to delid, but I think I'll go with the vice/hammer/wood block method, I do not like the idea of sliding a razor blade inside of my cpu.

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