I just chopped the IHS off my 3770K with a stationary cutter, replaced the stock TIM with some PK-1 and the temp dropped about 9-10C
Have to say though, it's not as easy as people make it out to be, took me maybe 30 mins or so. Maybe I just wasn't brave enough? The two sides were especially tricky as the glue is thickest there.
Also at one point the blade accidentally clipped a corner of the die when it suddenly cut through the black seal. The die seemed intact even though a tiny piece of what looks like shiny coating came off
My heart sunk. Just when I thought I'd give it one last try to confirm that it's dead, amazingly it still booted, doesn't seemed to have affected the cpu in any way. Am testing at 4.5Ghz at the moment with temp averaging around 71C when running prime95 AVX.
I've been reading this thread from page 1. I rarely log in to this forum but I thought I should still share my experience, as many have done in this thread.
Take extreme care when removing IHS, I'm very lucky to still have a working CPU!
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