Need advice with delidding

Admiral Teddy · Jul 11, 2017

Hello,

I've bought a delid die mate 2 and thermal grizzly conductonaut to delid my 4790k as it is a hot running one.

I have also ordered Arctic Silver Ceramique 2 to cover the voltage regulators (the thingies next to the cpu) and Uhu high temp silicone to seal it back up.

I've watched a couple of vids and I feel pretty confident and have made sacrifices to the gods to make sure I don't break it.

but just out of curiosity, I was wondering if you have any extra advice:
- How delicate must I be when cleaning the actual cpu.
- is the ceramique a good idea for covering the thingies?

any other advice?

I would be very grateful!!!

Snipergod87 · Jul 11, 2017

A good idea is if you have an older processor you aren't using is to try delidding that first to get s little experience.

alexoiu · Jul 11, 2017

Hi, What cooler using? And what temperatures? OC-ing, or not?

13thmonkey · Jul 11, 2017

If that's devils canyon, didn't they swap to soldered heat sinks for that refresh of haswell? Perhaps just better paste.

Snipergod87 · Jul 12, 2017

13thmonkey :

Thats true for the Haswell refresh the used solder compared to just haswell.

Admiral Teddy · Jul 12, 2017

Snipergod87 :

Hey, thanks for the reply, I actually forgot to mention, I bought a dead 4670, just to get my hand warmed up!!
Although, now that I think of it, I wont know if I killed it or not...

alexoiu :

Hey, thanks for the reply!!
I'm going to use a NH-D15 (which I just bought), I am unsure as of yet, depends on the delid, but if all goes well, probably to 4.5 - 4.6
I owned a fractal design s36 which worked fine for 1 year, then it really floored and so I have bought the noctua!
Also, my chip is generally too hot imho, that's why I want to delid.

13thmonkey :

Hey, thank you for the reply.... Well I am a noobie, but I know my chip's thermals are pretty bad, and my cooler has been a bit awful so I have decided to get both a new noctua d15 cooler and do a delid

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I'm still not sure about using the ceramique to cover the thingies, is that a good idea or should I just use nail varnish?

13thmonkey · Jul 12, 2017

Admiral Teddy :

Snipergod87 :

Hey, thanks for the reply, I actually forgot to mention, I bought a dead 4670, just to get my hand warmed up!!
Although, now that I think of it, I wont know if I killed it or not...

alexoiu :

Hey, thanks for the reply!!
I'm going to use a NH-D15 (which I just bought), I am unsure as of yet, depends on the delid, but if all goes well, probably to 4.5 - 4.6
I owned a fractal design s36 which worked fine for 1 year, then it really floored and so I have bought the noctua!
Also, my chip is generally too hot imho, that's why I want to delid.

13thmonkey :

Hey, thank you for the reply.... Well I am a noobie, but I know my chip's thermals are pretty bad, and my cooler has been a bit awful so I have decided to get both a new noctua d15 cooler and do a delid

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I'm still not sure about using the ceramique to cover the thingies, is that a good idea or should I just use nail varnish?

If it is solder it's a bad idea all round

Admiral Teddy · Jul 12, 2017

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If it is solder it's a bad idea all round [/quotemsg]

It's non conductive, hence why I got it to cover the pins. Just unsure if it's a good choice compared to a nail varnish.

13thmonkey · Jul 12, 2017

Admiral Teddy :

If it is solder it's a bad idea all round [/quotemsg]

It's non conductive, hence why I got it to cover the pins. Just unsure if it's a good choice compared to a nail varnish.[/quotemsg]

13thmonkey · Jul 12, 2017

How do you delid a soldered chip?

Admiral Teddy · Jul 12, 2017

13thmonkey :

4790k isn't soldered, not to my knowledge anyway as i've seen a couple of delidding guides/results for it.

13thmonkey · Jul 13, 2017

Ok if you're sure, wanted to check.

Admiral Teddy · Jul 13, 2017

Snipergod87 :

13thmonkey :

Update:
Finished delidding, and changed cooler, idle temps dropped to 25 from 55, under full load overclocked to 4.5, I get 70
Superbly happy!!

And 13thmonkey, thanks for letting me know about soldered stuff, I had no idea cpus were even soldered so a bit of research helped make sure mine wasn't

13thmonkey · Jul 13, 2017

I'm sure you've figured out if it was soldered, it'd be dead by now. Devils was meant to be, but it just ended up with a better paste.

55idle indicates other problems to me, but you've got a result.

Admiral Teddy · Jul 13, 2017

13thmonkey :

oh, forgot to mention, you know the glue they use, silicone or whatever it is, a little of it was actually on the cpu, that's my guess for the high temps, beside my crappy cooler that is.

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