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Guru3D.com » News » Intel Core i7-5960X De-Lidded Haswell-E Uses Soldered TIM

Intel Core i7-5960X De-Lidded Haswell-E Uses Soldered TIM

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/29/2014 10:21 AM | Source | 53 comment(s) ]

For its most powerful Haswell-E based processors Intel will use Soldered TIM based on a strong epoxy. OCDrift discovered that when they removed (read forced off) the heatspreader. Beneath the adhesive layer that secure the IHS to the package, Intel soldered the chip’s die to the IHS with a strong epoxy.

As OCDrift reports; this is a good news for overclockers, simply because soldering the CPU die to the IHS allows for much better heat conductivity than if the gap was to be filled with thermal interface material (TIM) like we’ve seen on the Core i7-3770K, 4770K, and 4790K.

Haswell-E is expected to be released in September 2014, and the rumoured specifications suggested that the top model namely the Core i7-5960X will have 8 cores, 16 threads and clocked at 3.0GHz with a 3.3GHz Turbo peak.

Now the question begs, who the heck did they get that processor from ? :)






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fantaskarsef
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#4883855 Posted on: 07/29/2014 10:25 AM
Sexy.

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#4883860 Posted on: 07/29/2014 10:32 AM
another news that make you want to grab one of these

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#4883882 Posted on: 07/29/2014 11:26 AM
Why force it open like that. That poor baby. :P
Why not just melt the TIM, and then take appart the CPU correctly?

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#4883896 Posted on: 07/29/2014 11:52 AM
As I've understood, it's "glued" together with epoxy. Epoxy is resistant to temperatures.

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#4883899 Posted on: 07/29/2014 11:58 AM
Why force it open like that. That poor baby. :P
Why not just melt the TIM, and then take appart the CPU correctly?

It's not easy to melt epoxy without damaging CPU core, almost impossible. Brute force is the way to go, but eeeeaaassssyyyyyy brute force.... :)

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#4883918 Posted on: 07/29/2014 12:50 PM
RIP that 5960X... :(

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#4883924 Posted on: 07/29/2014 01:05 PM
It's dead...Isn't there a way to open it without damaging it? Controlled heat? Infrared controlled heat?

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#4883925 Posted on: 07/29/2014 01:08 PM
As I've understood, it's "glued" together with epoxy. Epoxy is resistant to temperatures.


normal epoxy yes but there is special one that are more or less like real melt from thermal and strengh caracteristic...

part of my racecar frame are melted with epoxy and it's just fine.

also Coolaboratory sell epoxy to "melt" processor to cooler (once do you cannot remove it anymore).

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#4883952 Posted on: 07/29/2014 02:02 PM
Cmon for enthusiat market they should sell it with heatspreader and epoxy kit.
If you want you glue it, otherwis you lap it and you go with wathever!

no?

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#4883956 Posted on: 07/29/2014 02:05 PM
Looks like the die has 12 cores.
Another salvaged chip from the server department, meh!

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#4883963 Posted on: 07/29/2014 02:16 PM
Why force it open like that. That poor baby. :P
Why not just melt the TIM, and then take appart the CPU correctly?

Because they didn't know it was soldered in the first place.

Better one dead chip than having many customers destroying theirs thinking it was TIM under the lid.

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#4883974 Posted on: 07/29/2014 02:28 PM
Cmon for enthusiat market they should sell it with heatspreader and epoxy kit.
If you want you glue it, otherwis you lap it and you go with wathever!

no?

Maybe they should do so with a tray edition, but not the boxed one. People would complain about paying hundreds of and still need to glue their cpu together... that would sound strange to me too ;)

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#4883990 Posted on: 07/29/2014 02:40 PM
Poor cpu :eek3:

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#4883995 Posted on: 07/29/2014 02:44 PM
another news that make you want to grab one of these



Yes?
So you would buy it now because its soldered even if its 1000$, yes well worth it :D :P

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#4884007 Posted on: 07/29/2014 03:07 PM
RIP 5960X :(


Looks like the die has 12 cores.
Another salvaged chip from the server department, meh!

Correct. The 5960X is a gimped Xeon. That's why it has the solder. Same goes for the 5930 and 5820

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