4670k Delid

[paulstung]

The Knife method scares me, but I think the vice method would be safer.

 

[Genesius]

Lol. Sign me up. I5 arrived today!

 

[Permafrost]

hi M&P if i post i wanted some to de-lid my i7 4770k would you be interested in doing it for a few quid?

 

[antihero]

M&P, you should go start a little delidding shop, i would love to have my i7 4770k delidded but i'm worried i'll mess up and have to buy i new one
i also have a friend who want's his i7 3770k delidded and we are both live in London

I'd be scared to send some dude on the internet whom I've never met a 300€ CPU but I guess that's just me lol

 

[Genesius]

To be honest I wouldn't want to delid someone's CPU. There a risk that it could go wrong and then who would be responsible. I would say just do it yourself. There are so many videos and written guides online.

 

[R0Y]

I hope Tom posts a video on deliding this Haswell shit and and what difference can be achieved.

 

[NeverBackDown]

^^ Temps. Really had to ask that? It's not worth it anyways. No need to go higher than 4.4ghz for gaming.

Welcome to OC3D!

 

[Genesius]

No need to overclock at all but we do, and that's why we're here.

So I don't think I'm going to delid haswell. The build isn't for me and so far at 1.25v and 4.4 I didn't have crazy temps, max 79C. But the the H100i decided to fail so waiting on an RMA

 

[theDTP]

Nice drop in temps.

I'm stuck at 4.6GHz / 1.38v / 82c. I wish I had the balls to de-lid so I could maybe get 4.8GHz.

 

[KTM_RULZ]

Hi guyz, new member here.
I 've noticed how some Haswells hit a "volt wall" and need a big increase to get past some GHz mark. I wonder if that got to do with the on die VRMs. Are they affected by heat and if so would a thermal pad between them and IHS work?
I think pads are not conductive, are they?

 

[NeverBackDown]

They do but hit a volt wall. They hit a thermal limit because the IHS is not strong enough to be able to transfer the heat fast enough after a certain amount of voltage passes to the cpu. So temps will skyrocket no matter what but in some LN2 or Phase change(both are sub 0 cooling solutions) it is possible to get around this limit.

 

[R0Y]

^^ Temps. Really had to ask that? It's not worth it anyways. No need to go higher than 4.4ghz for gaming.

Welcome to OC3D!

Well, I do know about it in general, but I am interested to see if it really makes a difference to a crappy retail Haswell and not a cherry-picked ES. In my location the ambient temps are like 40C in summer, so no amount of "normal" cooling may be enough to even push it up to 4.4GHz I do a bit of video encoding as well (occasionally though), not just gaming.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Delidding sounds like a plausible solution for you then or just stick to sandy bridge and watercool it.

 

[R0Y]

The Z87 features are what I'm more excited about. I really need those storage options.