My first delid

[Noah0302]

Hey guys,

 

I'm going to delid my 8700k today which will also be my first delid ever. I hope that will negate my bad luck in the lottery, since I was unable to hit 5GHz at all, even with 1.375 volts on a 360 AIO.

You can imagine I'm a bit excited.

I watched a couple of tutorials on Youtube so I have a good grasp of what I have to do.

 

But do you have more tipps for me? Maybe some unusual ones?

 

My delid gear:

der8auer Delid-Die-Mate 2

Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut

Isopropanol 99,9%

Clear nail polish for isolating the 4 dots near the die

Uhu silicone glue although I don't know if I even will glue the heatspreader back together

[Davidwr80]

I can speak from my experience, I have delidded 3 CPUs so far: 

1. Don't re-seal it if you don't have to. The space reduction underneath the heat spreader is what gives you the biggest heat decrease. 

2. You probably need more force than you think

3. While removing the heat spreader after using the Delid-Die-Mate, be extra careful to not rip off any small parts on the CPU. I destroyed a 600€ CPU because I wasn't careful in the last stage of the delid.

4. Finally, make sure to apply enough liquid metal to the CPU die as well as the heat spreader. Your temps will be awful if the liquid metal layers don't connect properly to each other. 

 

If all goes well, you will have a great overclocker at hand

 

[Noah0302]

18 minutes ago, Davidwr80 said:

3. While removing the heat spreader after using the Delid-Die-Mate, be extra careful to not rip off any small parts on the CPU. I destroyed a 600€ CPU because I wasn't careful in the last stage of the delid.

That's a good one.

Tank you, I hope it goes well

[wildgg]

1 hour ago, Noah0302 said:

But do you have more tipps for me? Maybe some unusual ones?

it's not really hard to delid a cpu, just take your time with it

[_Hustler_One_]

3 hours ago, Davidwr80 said:

1. Don't re-seal it if you don't have to. The space reduction underneath the heat spreader is what gives you the biggest heat decrease.

This.

I did mine without re-seal the IHS. Just hold the IHS inplace firm enough with the stock motherboard intel cpu retention tool. Be very careful when you hold it with your finger while you clipping it on the motherboard.

 

Here is mine,

 

[AngryBeaver]

23 minutes ago, _Hustler_One_ said:

This.

I did mine without re-seal the IHS. Just hold the IHS inplace firm enough with the stock motherboard intel cpu retention tool. Be very careful when you hold it with your finger while you clipping it on the motherboard.

 

Here is mine,

 

I have always personally used RTV silicon gasket maker. I have tried both and seen no decrease in thermals with it.  I just out a small bead on the edge of the IHS and make sure to leave a gap of about a 1/4" or so on one side.  If you have the die mate just use the relid attachment. If now I just used a foam and clamp setup for about 2-4 hrs to let it set then let the socket hold it down which let's it completely dry over the next few days while you use it.

 

The benefit to this is that if you do it properly noone can tell it was ever delidded. I mean I have only personally killed one chip and it was a very long time ago. It was the old vise and block of wood/rubber mallet method. Chip went flying and didn't survive. I have used a razor blade for all my delids since.

 

 

Btw if you do not use an adhesive you need to move the IHS slightly down from center as it will move up when you clamp the chip down via the locking mechanism.

[_Hustler_One_]

2 minutes ago, AngryBeaver said:

I have always personally used RTV silicon gasket maker. I have tried both and seen no decrease in thermals with it.  I just out a small bead on the edge of the IHS and make sure to leave a gap of about a 1/4" or so on one side.  If you have the die mate just use the relid attachment. If now I just used a foam and clamp setup for about 2-4 hrs to let it set then let the socket hold it down which let's it completely dry over the next few days while you use it.

 

The benefit to this is that if you do it properly noone can tell it was ever delidded. I mean I have only personally killed one chip and it was a very long time ago. It was the old vise and block of wood/rubber mallet method. Chip went flying and didn't survive. I have used a razor blade for all my delids since.

That's one of my point. I will reseal it when it's the time I will sell it, but before that time is coming I will leave it without resealed, so If I need to reapplied the LM I can do it without any hassle.

[Noah0302]

So I'm finished.

 

I went from 4.9GHz 1.325V 84C Cinebench

to 5GHz on 1.35V 66C

and 5.1GHz on 1.425V 79C

5.2 is not possible.

 

5GHz makes most sense here I think. This huge voltage and temp difference for 100MHz is not really worth it.

[Mister Woof]

Delid is best thing I ever did to mine

[Falkentyne]

9 hours ago, Noah0302 said:

Hey guys,

 

I'm going to delid my 8700k today which will also be my first delid ever. I hope that will negate my bad luck in the lottery, since I was unable to hit 5GHz at all, even with 1.375 volts on a 360 AIO.

You can imagine I'm a bit excited.

I watched a couple of tutorials on Youtube so I have a good grasp of what I have to do.

 

But do you have more tipps for me? Maybe some unusual ones?

 

My delid gear:

der8auer Delid-Die-Mate 2

Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut

Isopropanol 99,9%

Clear nail polish for isolating the 4 dots near the die

Uhu silicone glue although I don't know if I even will glue the heatspreader back together

My advice:
reseal with RTV silicone with four VERY TINY DOTS in each corner of the bottom of the IHS.  The smaller the better.

Then you get an easy reseal but without risk of having the IHS elevated higher.  RTV expands as it dries so a tiny dab makes things sealed without any drawbacks   You can also even re-delid with your fingers if you messed up the LM application.