Direct-die WCing! Cheap and easy.

[Mech0z]

The arguing over the validity of this idea in this thread cracks me up, I just hope the OP doesn't decide not to share their results due to the arguing from people who clearly have no idea what they are talking about! To the nay sayers: go come up with something innovative.

If direct die cooling was a bad idea than no one would ever remove the IHS to cool it, all that achieves is the removal of a couple layers of material to transfer heat through.

Yes you get rid of some, but you get less area to transfer the heat, and a flat plate is not good at transferring heat compared to a rilled plate, but as I said might be wrong.

[Bradan]

Yes you get rid of some, but you get less area to transfer the heat, and a flat plate is not good at transferring heat compared to a rilled plate, but as I said might be wrong.

Water being jetted onto the glass smooth die at 1-1.5gpm should work great, period. These temps will be crazy.

I see what you're saying though, but the way I see it is that the water only has to absorb the heat from direct contact with the core, and not to other water molecules. I don't see heat conduction from core to water being the problem.