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hey welcome back to harbor unboxed today on hand i have this this and this so what are these well this is intel seventh generation Core i7 77 okay processor this here is a nifty little tool that I picked up off eBay for just $14 II delivered and it's a 3d printed D lid tool for Ivy Bridge doubles Canyon he has well sky like and KB Lake processes and finally this is some liquid pro or liquid metal as it's probably better known throw in some kind of inward pressure creating tool into the mix like a clamp or vise and you can MacGyver your way to much lower operating temperatures before I get to that little quick backstory as to why I'm doing this a few weeks ago I built my new GPU test rig using the 7700 okay and the plan was to run this benchmark system at four point nine to five gigahertz the cooler of choice was cause as excellent hydro h100 iv2 and I was expecting to see fairly reasonable operating temperatures what I saw at four point nine gigahertz using one point three volts was full load temperatures well into the 90s in fact the system peaked at around 96 to 97 degrees as a result I ended up backing the system off to the same four point five gigahertz frequency that I ran my previous 6700k test system at to ensure 100% stability at all times when benchmarking a few viewers commented that I must be doing something wrong it was the radiator placement I was using too much voltage despite the fact that I actually said I was using one point three volts and so on most of you seem to realize that seventy-seven okay is just a hot ship and the reason for this is down to the fact that Intel used a poor quality thermal interface material that being the case a good number of you asked me to delete my 7700 K processor and try again so that's exactly what I'm going to do the first tip is to top the 77 arcade chip into the D lid tool and apply some pressure this then breaks the heat spreaders grip on the PCB this is done easily enough and rather than film myself doing this down the shed using a bench vise I just used a cheap clamp with the lid removed it was simply a matter of off the rubbish intel put on the dye and replacing it with some liquid metal at this point you could fix the heat spreader back in place using an adhesive but I recommend just leaving it sitting on top and letting the LGA socket clamp the processor and heat spreader in place okay so now that we've done all that it's time to see how much of an impact this has had on operating temperatures installing the 7700 Kaede back into my corsair test machine I was shocked to find that at four point nine gigahertz using the same 1.3 volts the maximum stress temp never exceeded 73 degrees and for the most part hovered around 70 degrees I should also note that the fans on my H 100 I weren't even speeding up as the temp target for the performance mode was set at 80 degrees so this technically isn't even an apples-to-apples comparison when forcing the fans to spin up the temps maxed out at around 68 degrees I should also note that my testing was done with an ambient room temperature of 21 degrees unfortunately with 1.3 volts I couldn't get my system to post at 5 gigahertz going up to 3 point 5 volts got me into the windows load screen but there the system would lock up upping the voltage to 1 point 4 got me into Windows but the system wasn't 100% stable so for that 5 gigahertz frequency I will need to do a bit more tinkering that said for now I'm more than pleased with the 4.9 gigahertz operating frequency especially given how low those temps now are hovering around the 70 degree mark at full load so if your own and I'm up to seventh generation Intel processor and you're serious about overclocking d-lighting is the way to go unfortunately doing so comes with a bit of risk and the worst part being that you will void your warranty I have to say this is really whore for from Intel's doing this to their unlocked processors if it wasn't already a low enough blow that Intel we're charging a premium for their unlocked processors they're now doing so we're providing the same rubbish thermal interface material that they use on their locked models as a PC enthusiast and a consumer I really can't stand this and the need for AMD to deliver next month is more important than ever all up I spent 14 dollars on the D lid tool which I grabbed off eBay 45 dollars on the liquid Pro and then of course you still need a CPU cooler so the unlocked until processes they don't come with one and so I used this Corsair model here and that's about 150 dollars by the way all these prices are an Australian dollar that I'm quoting so Intel is stinging over clock is about a $40 premium for their unlocked core i7 and then you need to buy a cooler and spend about another $60 or so so you can actually have clock it without risk of it cooking itself anyway in summary I'm both impressed and appalled by the improvements of this little deal it experiment produced what do you guys think let me know in the comments below and if you think I vent it consider giving this video a like thanks I'm your host Steve and I hope to catch you again soon