Quote Originally Posted by churchy View Post
tdbone1: Purpose? Probably to get temps and max overclock closer to that of SB, which were gimped by worse stock TIM between core & IHS. According to many that is more of a reason for worse temps/overclock (at least without throttling and with not extreme cooling solutions) then that of smaller core/more concentrated heat flow/more current leakage when overvolted & overclocked a lot. I'm guessing frustration comes mostly from high expectations from IB before it's launch. If it were at least as good of overclocker as SB without things like improving TIM, no one would bother. But with state of things being as is people wish to "fix" "intel wrong decisions" with this, relatively simple mod. As for warranty .. very few from overclockers do care .. and from what i've heard, few people online even sell pre-moded IB cpu-s with replaced TIM for some price premium
max temps on IB go upto 105C so running at 75-80C is nothing
my video cards i have had in the past would get upto 90C (i had 5870`s in crossfire) with not even a 1/4" space between them and everyone runs those like that still
gtx 480s ran in 90`s too
this is not uncommon to run that hot (as long as its designed for it)

to my understanding the IB is designed to run that hot

so my Q again is:
does it make the case temps higher running at 75-80C then SB running at 65-70C?
see i dont think so because the SB had more of a surface area (meaning it puts out a larger heat pattern)

ok so why do this mod?
it only gives 100MHz extra to void the warranty, risk damaging a nice cpu and resell value DROPS on ebay im sure.

im really thinking this mod is pointless if it dont bennifit anything?

let me know where im wrong at.