A former TI process engineer ran a bunch of detailed experiments with
delidding and different mounts / TIMs on his 3770K :
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2261855
Seemed to help a lot. The 2500K was a heckuva lot easier to OC
(4.7GHz) than the 3570K that replaced it (only managed ~4.4GHz).
At 11:40 AM 3/26/2013, you wrote:
just watched a utube where a guy pulled off the heat spreader of a
ivy bridge and cleaned and re applied good thermal paste directly to
the core to fix this issue. seems like a fix for a non problem
unless one is overclocking, which I do not do anymore.
also seems like one could mess up a expensive cpu very easily.
FYI
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