Hey everyone. I've got a Kentsfield that I believe to be a very capable chip. I'm at 3.6GHz so far and it seems to be stable (4 P95 CPU + 1 Orthos Blend + ATi tool 3D test to heat up my WC loop + SPI 32M) so far, but temps are much higher with my APOGEE block than I would like. I'm sitting at 70-75C as reported by both nTune and Core Temp.

The solder that holds the IHS on melts under 100C, and this has to be melted in order to remove the IHS.

I've heard of a couple methods for removing Core 2 Duo IHSes, but they all involved torches or lighters and all kinds of scary stuff. I want to know if anyone has thought of just cutting the glue around the edges, then just sticking the thing in a pot of boiling distilled water, letting it dry and off to the races... I would imagine a CPU is reasonably well sealed up, and besides, given ample time to dry, there shouldn't be any reason that it would be permanently damaged... Anyone wanna let me know if there's something wrong with this logic?