Any chance of ordering new FX CPU without IHS?

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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?

So I was right to an extent?

Just like how you can have an LN2 pot with all the surface area in the world, but without mass in the base it's worth nothing? The contact and thermal transfer from die to IHS through solder is much better than paste to block/base would be and that's what kills the chip if I understand you right.