HOW TO REMOVE i7 IHS

[Krautmaster]

+1...which is why passive direct die cooling wont work on i7, I drew a pic back when arguing with someone else ...there is no getting around the very small surface area of die, and .58 W/M*k heat conductance of water is not going to dissipate 180W. I could see IHS/waterblock combo without thermal paste, ie soldered as doing better, but not direct die.

i think you can't argument with the heat conductance of water / copper...
You have to mind that the water comes with high speed and only stays for a very short time directly on that cpu. So take a stick of copper and heat one side of it... Don't you think the waterflow will be faster than the heat conducting through the metal?

The fakt is, that direct die watercooling offers continuously new cold material (water) to dispate the heat. Copper heats on and on, there is no new material coming... heat have to to through the material.

I think direct die cooling only works if the water comes with a quite fast an continuous stream over the die.

Example:

Try to brun a hole in a plastic bottle filled with water. Think you can't...
Try to burn a hole in a bottle filled with copper - or a brick of copper packed in plastic... i think you will know what i'm talking about...

[trueg50]

Don't forget, while Copper provides "666x" faster heat transfer then just the water, the performance will be judged by the poorest component not the best, in this case by either the core ->TIM-> IHS application, or the IHS->TIM-> waterblock.

This simplifies the process from "core->TIM-> IHS-> TIM->copper block -> water" down to just "core->water". Though all our theorizing doesn't take away from the fact that the OP is getting crazy good temperatures that none us water or air cooled guys could dream of.