Quote Originally Posted by Cornelious0_0 View Post
I'm almost 100% sure that the 6000 series C2D chips are all soldered to their IHS's.

Razor_Sniper, are you still using air cooling with the IHS removed on the E4300? How does it work out with the socket cover not holding the chip in place completely?

EDIT: Sorry, just realised it's not your chip that you posted a pic of.
I have my IHS also removed. I use watercooling, but because of metal clips that are in the way. I have to use a copper plate, because of this my temps suck with watercooling. I just set the cooling on it. It wil hold the cpu. This weekend I will try the boxed cooler, the base is smaller so I should not need te copper plate. Will post results then

Right now my temps are 50 under load in speedfan and 61 under load in TAT. (Load means, orthos ) This is with 1.365Vcore and 3.2Ghz. With IHS temps were 72 TAT and 64 Speedfan.