Any chance of ordering new FX CPU without IHS?

[chew*]

Removing IHS kills voltage tolerance unless you solder your block to CPU. The IHS is a buffer.

Thanks for assuming i'm an idiot who has no clue about contact

The chip died at 1.575 IIRC or an equivalent to that had chip been a retail. The spike in temps at boot is what killed it.

It was a HL ES chip with the sole intent to test exactly what it tested.

The newer dies are getting fragile, deneb could be chipped, thuban would just crack. I imagine BD will be even more fragile.

Also might note while the laptop chips appear flat the denebs we delidded were anything but. We had to lap the die on a few of them.

You guys are clearly misguided if you think that paste is equal to soldered.

Would you twist 2 wires together and call it good contact?