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- Dec 24, 2012
Hi guys, I was hoping you could give me some advice.
I recently delidded my i7-3770K and the process went very smoothly. No scratches or anything.
However, my temperatures after delidding are behaving funny. At idle, there is a 15 degree temperature difference between the first and last core (28, 23, 23, 15). When at max load, there's a 45 degree difference. The temperature fluctuates very rapidly depending on what task I'm doing.
When I stress test (which I don't run for more than a few seconds), my first core jumps up to 99 degrees.
Based on how smoothly the delidding process went, I'm doubting that I nicked the die or anything (I didn't notice any scratches). I figure if I did something like that, the CPU just wouldn't work at all.
I am thinking that I must have applied the thermal paste incorrectly, which might explain the difference in core temps. I used Coolaboratory Liquid Pro. And I applied it using the half rice grain method.
Putting on the IHS wasn't so smooth, I guess. it moved around a lot before I finally locked it in place. Maybe THIS is when something went wrong?
Any advice? I'm leaning toward taking off the lid again and checking out the thermal paste. I heard it's hard to remove the Liquid Pro paste. How should I go about removing it? I'm scared to damage the cpu die. Will just alcohol and swabs work?
Thank you very much. Any help is appreciated.
I recently delidded my i7-3770K and the process went very smoothly. No scratches or anything.
However, my temperatures after delidding are behaving funny. At idle, there is a 15 degree temperature difference between the first and last core (28, 23, 23, 15). When at max load, there's a 45 degree difference. The temperature fluctuates very rapidly depending on what task I'm doing.
When I stress test (which I don't run for more than a few seconds), my first core jumps up to 99 degrees.
Based on how smoothly the delidding process went, I'm doubting that I nicked the die or anything (I didn't notice any scratches). I figure if I did something like that, the CPU just wouldn't work at all.
I am thinking that I must have applied the thermal paste incorrectly, which might explain the difference in core temps. I used Coolaboratory Liquid Pro. And I applied it using the half rice grain method.
Putting on the IHS wasn't so smooth, I guess. it moved around a lot before I finally locked it in place. Maybe THIS is when something went wrong?
Any advice? I'm leaning toward taking off the lid again and checking out the thermal paste. I heard it's hard to remove the Liquid Pro paste. How should I go about removing it? I'm scared to damage the cpu die. Will just alcohol and swabs work?
Thank you very much. Any help is appreciated.