Quick Delidding Question

[DarkBlade2117]

So I intend to possibly delid my 6700k at one point. I'll be using liquid metal between the heat spreader and the CPU chip, though between the cooler and the heat spreader how much of a difference does it make between liquid metal and paste?

[8-Bit Ninja]

According to this video, no really, its a 1 degree decrease at the best 

[xc3ll]

I've got around 3-5°C less with all LM compared to just using LM between chip and heatspreader. But you must be very very careful when removing the cooler and cleaning the CPU.

[tiberiusmoon5]

make sure to always have the most over kill cooler, unlike Linus and that other video they are using basic coolers that are unable to dissipate enough heat. . .

My results:

 

6700k ambient temp is the same,

when removing the old TIM there was a small amount and it looked like it was starting to crack.

 

my cooling is EK custom with a 360 rad.

If you have a crappy cooler its not worth it

[DarkBlade2117]

1 hour ago, TiberiusMoon said:

make sure to always have the most over kill cooler, unlike Linus and that other video they are using basic coolers that are unable to dissipate enough heat. . .

My results:

6700k ambient temp is the same,

when removing the old TIM there was a small amount and it looked like it was starting to crack.

 

my cooling is EK custom with a 360 rad.

If you have a crappy cooler its not worth it

I've got a Captain 240EX with Corsair ML120 fans on it and 3 HD120s as exhaust. See, my big reason for doing it is the difference between my core temps are generally 8-10C. So the coolest core could be 62C while the hottest 71C.