Quote Originally Posted by xdrift0rx View Post
hold on, so does that mean you could cut open a slit in the rubber surrounding the processor and drop some in there and then be able to pop off the IHS? or would it mess up the core itself in some way? just wondering..
You can get the IHS off people have done it but they allmost all have ended up cracking the cores. without the shim in there the cores get just a little bit too much pressurewhen mounting the heatsink they will crack. I believe there is a post in the beginning of this thread showing pictures of failed cores taking off the whole IHS. I would say with a water block you could get away with it if your careful but any kind of decent air cooling heatsink is going to have too much weight to it. I think if you did pop it off and glue you some shims juat a tiny bit higher then the cores back onto it. then lap till you even would be the fastest easyest way to do this mod.