Cooling an Intel 7700K

stealth80 · May 30, 2017

11 minutes ago, Kommanche said:

I'm assuming you used a razor blade then and damaged the PCB traces. Hammer and vice method is safer than that, and using a delidding tool is safer still.

well ye I know that now, this was like 4.5 years ago

Kommanche · May 30, 2017

6 hours ago, Jorgen297 said:

tl;dr Intel cheaped out on the 7700K's thermal paste, you can either buy a very expensive water cooler to get normal temps, or you can de-lid and use a normal cooler.

or delid, and swap to a better cooler and get amazing temps. Using an NH-D15, my i7-4790K at 4.8Ghz (1.3v) spikes at 54C under Prime95 load.