Quote Originally Posted by Conquistador SW View Post
What did you use to get the lid off in the end?

I want to try the same, but also have a hard time finding something that fits in between the IHS and the PCB (or whatever it is called) I have a surgical scalpel, but even that seems to be too thick.
Went to Lowes and picked up a pack of TaskForce scraper blades and a Kobalt snap blade retractable knife. I used the scraper blade to work the corners with the CPU standing on it's side blade pushing down rocking back and forth. Then connected the corners with the knife. Took about 10 minutes to do the first one. I've done 3 more since for other people which took about 5 minutes. Takes a lot longer to get that crappy glue off though.

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Quote Originally Posted by masterg View Post
i dont have the money to buy another 3770k if broken, but dang. with that stuff i could push my chip stable higher
Send it to me. I'll pop that sucker off.

Quote Originally Posted by haschioz View Post
use the liquid metal "paste". it gave some ocers 100-200mhz (not sure which) of additional headroom with lower temps. a 10°C difference didnt result in any higher oc.
From the results people have posted they are getting higher more stable clocks due to the temp decrease alone. Some TIM works better than others but if you reduce idle and load temps by 10c you will get better clocks.