Intel Skylake Core i7 6700K De-lidded and tested
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OnnA
YeaH and don't even try it at home = :wanker:
CK the Greek
I think anyone who have tried it with success on any previous chip would do it for sure..
rl66
delid vs stock result are not so far in watercooling, so few degres.
I used to delid for OC in the past but now exept for LN2, i don't see the need for delid.
But of course if you are purist... lol
Illyrian
Which are the people that would go through all this just to shave 5 degrees?
seriously ???
I can drop my CPU and both my GPU's by 10 degrees just by opening up my side panel and putting a room fan to blow cool air into it...
I can drop even more around 20 degrees if I just place my PC by the window with the cold night air getting sucked in by my side panel fans....
These are the type of things people should consider doing before they even THINK about delidding....... it's just crazy to me, and for a few ****ty degrees too...
TheDeeGee
More so, why would you risk 400 Euros?
Also children in africa could have eaten that lid.
Fox2232
That says a lot about airflow in your case. But nothing about value/risk delidding has.
20C difference is nothing to be ignored once OC and proper TIM is used.
And considering intel not having any SMD resistors and capacitors around CPU, it is actually damn safe thing to do this time around.
NAMEk
Well, that's roughly 22% down with colabaratory, good stuff alright. But Intel should use some better option than thermal paste. IHS is permanently tied, soldering? cold soldering? or maybe no IHS at all?
southamptonfc
Has any journalist ever asked Intel why they are using thermal paste now?
We all know why they do it but I'd like to know what their official response would be.
StewieTech
I just delided my 4670k last week and put some arctic cooling mx4 under the hood; shoved 11ºC of max temp with the same overclock at 4.4ghz/1.26v. Would do it again if intel keep screwing it in the future.
schmidtbag
I don't really see the point. Most Intel chips can overclock insanely high on air, to the point that not even liquid cooling is really necessary (unless you want bragging rights).
rl66
it's not so risky to delit, if you have patience and the right tools (no it's won't do with hammer or chainsaw).
and also you need the right cooler and/or adaptator
nope the lid is not commestible 🙂
there is a point... silence.
i have a single 14cm fan in the box... the pump (high flow) and the cooler is in another room.
i can even hear the vrm of the motherboard and the graphics and my cat purring on the sofa.
no aircooling can do that.
schmidtbag
You're sort of mix and matching here. You can still achieve that silence without delidding. My point is that a 4 degree difference, to me, isn't worth doing. If you've already got the tools and skills to do it then I see no reason not to do it, I just don't think it makes sense to go out of your way to do it.
WareTernal
This does look like a clean job compared to older chips. While you can potentially destroy your chip, it's not THAT hard. A few degrees wouldn't be worth risking an i7 to me, but for some people it's chump change so what the heck! There are plenty old cpu's with IHS going in the garbage these days so practice up.
What happened to modding/shimming your heatsink and tossing the IHS in the trash?
stereoman
I was going to Delid my 4790K when I first bought it but decided against was going to use the vice method but it's just not worth voiding the warranty and risk damaging the chip for such a small drop in temps, replacing the thermal compound on my GPU was much easier and dropped my cards temp by 10 degrees and my cpu is stable enough at 4.7ghz with my old H100 so probably won't ever bother with this.
cyclone3d
All of you claiming only a 4c drop... did you even look at the posted pics?
That 4c drop is only at stock speeds with the Prolimatech goop.
With the Cool Laboratory Liquid Pro, the drop at stock is 16c and overclocked it is 20c.
The simple fact is that Intel is still using super crappy TIM.
NAMEk
If IHS is necessary to hold cpu in place or prevent damage to chip itself, last one i doubt it, because i still own old old AMD and intel CPUs with no IHS at all, so why not to solder them??? There are so many techniques if heat is the show stopper. If the price is stopping them, per CPU it should cost less than a 1USD. We are willing to pay those few cents. Locked multiplier (Handicapped OC), ****ty cooling, awful price/performance ratio. We need competition badly.
PhazeDelta1
This has been said ad nauseam. The thermal paste was never the problem. The problem was the gap between the cpu die and the back of the ihs because of adhesive that was used.
Agent-A01
No not really. Youll still get a 15-20c drop over thermal paste using liquid ultra even after taking the adhesive off
Delidding and using anything but liquid ultra is a waste
southamptonfc
I don't believe the interpretation of these results. Can somebody who speaks the language confirm what was tested?
While Liquid Pro is good, no way is it 16C better than another 3rd party paste. Unless that 3rd party paste is Colgate.
slyphnier
anyway we have to factor/count the "heat spreader" right ?
or they put back after reapplied new TIM ?
temp before delidding is + heat spreader
then temp after delidding is without heat spreader right ? cmiiw
(just like GPU)
i am wondering why gpu never cased with heat spreader
while cpu need to be cased with heat spreader
i understand without heat spreader, its fragile, that can probably broke under sunlight bath(uv)? or other stuff... but it should can be solved with right packaging
and for the article regarding liquid pro
this article right ?
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/column/sebuncha/20150806_715335.html
rough translate
high risk - high return
before delid, it tested on 1.325v 4.6Ghz , with prime95 28.5 small ffts, cpu temp is near 90C
so even without delidding, this CPU is really great OC CPU
but after seeing overwhelming different, there is value in risk in delidding
put aside to what point it can be OC, the temp different (intel TIM vs liquidpro) can simply translate to around extra 100~200mhz clock rate in daily use
the other thing that they mention about Cool Laboratory Liquid Pro
why liquid pro make so different is that, 14nm die size
as its better thermal conductivity, it transfer heat from small size die better than other TIM
