After delidding my 3770 K I can honestly say it was well worth the effort. I also lapped the IHS only I left my H-100 alone. Used some LMP via die/ihs for the outside IHS/PK-1 the results are amazing almost 30 celsius across the board.
In my observation prior to appliying LMP I can honestly say that if you are gonna delidd use liquid metal otherwise results are gonna be mixed. The gap created by the glue prior to delidding does cause some heat but the main culprid is the lack of soldering. LMP has that effect on this process. I started with Artic Silver 5 and was not impressed . do not get me wrong artic is awesome but is not soldering. Even with the temperatures under control Ivy gets very VOlt hungry when you get past 4.95 GHZ at least my chip. I tried 5.0 I could not get it stable.
I will keep the chip running when I use Fsx at 4.8 I do not think the 200 mghz are gonna buy me that many FPS. My CPU is happy at that speed now a days thaks to delidding and the LMP.
I have read in many forums people are very scared of LMP but I found it to be easy to deal with except when you apply IHS/FSH You must likely have to lapp if you are the type to take system apart all the time besides interestingly enough PK-1 Performs better under those circumstances go figure.
In conclusion I m impressed with the results and I would do it again if I had to it's worth the risk besides Ivy is a very resilient chip. YOu probably would have to apply direct electric shock to kill it. Intel created a great product but forgot to glue it back together.
In my observation prior to appliying LMP I can honestly say that if you are gonna delidd use liquid metal otherwise results are gonna be mixed. The gap created by the glue prior to delidding does cause some heat but the main culprid is the lack of soldering. LMP has that effect on this process. I started with Artic Silver 5 and was not impressed . do not get me wrong artic is awesome but is not soldering. Even with the temperatures under control Ivy gets very VOlt hungry when you get past 4.95 GHZ at least my chip. I tried 5.0 I could not get it stable.
I will keep the chip running when I use Fsx at 4.8 I do not think the 200 mghz are gonna buy me that many FPS. My CPU is happy at that speed now a days thaks to delidding and the LMP.
I have read in many forums people are very scared of LMP but I found it to be easy to deal with except when you apply IHS/FSH You must likely have to lapp if you are the type to take system apart all the time besides interestingly enough PK-1 Performs better under those circumstances go figure.
In conclusion I m impressed with the results and I would do it again if I had to it's worth the risk besides Ivy is a very resilient chip. YOu probably would have to apply direct electric shock to kill it. Intel created a great product but forgot to glue it back together.
