Do people take the IHS off of C2D's

[SinfulWeeper]

Thinking about just buying a new e6300 or maybe a e6350 as I am not getting any bites on my WTB thread and I am not finding a good oc'er on the fs/ft boards. If I do buy one new and it OC's to the 3.2GHz range on stock volts, I am thinking should take the IHS off like I used to on my P4's and go as far as possible. However after seeing the way the 775 motherboards mount the CPU, will a heatsink even touch the cores without touching the motherboard?
I just got a new Thermaltake 120 extreme and lapped that sucker to a flat nice shine with upto 1800grit cloth paper as it was kinda concaved

 

[SinfulWeeper]

Err 6320, not 6350. Too lazy to hit the edit button right now as I am doing 750ml curls with a bottle of goldshlauger.

 

[myocardia]

I haven't heard of anyone doing that, at least around here. There are probably a few people over at XS who have done it, but I doubt it would offer that much higher of an overclock. Most people just check the IHS for flatness, and lap it, if it isn't flat.

 

[SinfulWeeper]

Kinda figured as much. Unless they changed their goop from the P4 days, I can say with backed up proof their thermal compound under those IHS sux0r's. On one of IHS's I removed I decided to use their stuff as a test to see how well it works with a XP-90 heatsink as they just glob it in there with plenty to spare. Temps were very unimpressive even for contacting the core directly. When I took their stuff off and used ASII instead, I got a heat reduction of 11 degree's F.

 

[Arkaign]

AFAIK, taking the IHS off of a 4x00 Conroe and improving the thermal transfer between the die and the IHS, and reapplying it might have some benefit, as they aren't soldered together like the 6XX0 series are. That's just what I've heard, haven't messed with it myself.

 

[SerpentRoyal]

My 4300 went down 7C after re-capping.