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now this is a video that I have received many requests to do over the years that this practice has been I don't want to say commonplace but definitely something that enthusiasts have been doing and I am finally finally going to set aside my concerns about not really wanting people to do this because it can definitely break your cpu and will definitely void your warranty and I will be showing you guys how to remove the integrated heat spreader or IHS on an Intel Core i7 6700 K Tunnel bear is the easy-to-use VPN service that lets you use the web as though you are in one of the 20 different countries learn more and Tritonal bear for free at the link in the video description so I think a natural question to ask is why on earth would you want to remove that that metal pop that could protects the die of the processor well the reasons have varied from year to year so in the olden days it was so that we could actually mount the heatsink directly to the die eliminating that small thermal resistance that is caused by the IHS itself but in recent years starting I think it was particularly with has well it's become more because intel has used not the greatest thermal compound to attach the IHS to the die itself rather than soldering them together so what that worse thermal compound means is that your cooling performance can be affected by that goop so what people have been doing is instead of leaving the IHS off they've actually been going as far as to put the IHS back on and just replace the thermal compound so that's what we're going to be doing today and we're going to find out if it makes a difference so to start with we'll need a baseline so we're gonna take our 6700 K we've just got some z170 board from MSI going on here and other than that this is kind of a Genki test bench and Wow I applied a lot of thermal compound but that's okay as long as I do it the same way the second time then we are freakin golden so we're just using a stock heatsink I don't want to sit around and wait for water to warm up and reach equilibrium or whatever else and frankly that doesn't matter to get the results that we need because we are looking for an improvement in temperatures not an absolute value let's go ahead and get that puppy mounted there we go snapped in place we're going to fire this up and then get i-264 going to find out exactly what our baseline reading is benchmarking break that was a long Pizza break it is actually the next day I got busy I had to do so whatever you guys don't care about my excuses but you care about his results and right here we've had our test running for about 20 minutes and it's running at 70 degrees Celsius here so that gives us a really good before scenario well before we rip that baby apart all right so step one we're gonna pull the CPU off of our test bench here put that aside next and this is for the sake of keeping my hands clean not because it's a hazard to the CPU we're going to go ahead and clean off that thermal compound don't worry we'll be reapplying it later one handy thing about doing this test on this CPU one that's had thermal compound applied and cleaned off of it many times is that we're effectively working with a pre polished IHS so that's another thing that people do sometimes to get slightly better performance now with some previous generation CPUs and I've encountered this before there were surface mount components much like you see here on the top of the package which meant you had to be extremely careful as you were cutting in between the substrate and the IHS but that's not the case with skylake making it actually surprisingly easy so you start with the corners I'm a good gap in that one we will try a slightly different approach holy crap all of that is tight all right I think I got it I just need to get the CPU flat make sure that I get under the metal here once it starts to cut it'll cut pretty fast there we go see that okay so the adhesive is starting to come starting to come loose we're going to do all four corners just like that I really don't want to slice my handle these would suck so once we've done the corners we're going to go ahead and do the edges don't cut too deep it's really not that much adhesive all right mmm rock on so it looks like we are right-side up with the notches at the top we're going to clean the adhesive residue the seal here off of both sides then we are going to clean off that thermal compound and replace it with something else now I'm just going to use some maker gel but I have lying around but what a lot of people are doing is they're using like the lip that liquid metal stuff or whatever else to get the utmost in performance and then they're actually using an adhesive like a thermal adhesive to glue these pieces back together I'm just going to be going with the floating method where you don't actually glue them back together I'm just going to be doing a Tim swap I just thermal interface material to find out just how bad the stock stuff is let's put some aftermarket grade thermal Wow so much fail all right I gotta clean this again we'll be back in a moment let's try that again this time holding down the CPU and putting less thermal compound that's logs check our orientation there we go and so let's find out if she works now because I didn't glue down the IHS I do have to be pretty careful in my installation here throw that baby in there like that so one tricky bit as we lower the retention arm as you can see these wings right here sit on the integrated heat spreader the IHS so we're going to need to compensate by moving it a little bit further back before we tighten this baby down so that it sits in the correct position once the arms are locked just like that so now we're going to reapply our thermal compound again going a little bit heavy putting a little bit more than I normally would like I did last time put our stock heatsink back on and let's fire up a stress test shall we my jabroni x' that's right I am full of dated words see if it works yeah alright that's the first step in success when it comes to trying to improve something not making it worse or breaking it boom let's let her run until she reaches max temperature and we will come back so here we are my friends the stunning conclusion it's hovering anywhere from about 66 to about 68 degrees we'll call that 67 so there you have it friends that is ultimately why I have never really condoned the removal of integrated heat spreaders because while you do get a couple of degrees and if you were using a better pace you get a couple more degrees what you do not get is enough for it to make any kind of significant difference to your overclock or the lifespan of your chip if you're using air or water cooling so I don't recommend doing it because I don't feel like it is worth the risk of damaging the CPU or the voiding of the warranty of your CPU so we've got Tesoro here with a pretty freakin awesome giveaway we've got three of their 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