last time we tried d-lidding the process
of removing the heat spreader from a CPU
we decided that it wasn't really worth the effort
the voided warranty on a brand new 300
processor or the risk
but it has since come to our attention that
while x-acto knives are a fun if a little dangerous tool for
de-litting there is a much better way to go about it
so then with the der bauer d-lidding tools in
hand for both lga 1151 and
2066 that's right my friends we're gonna get
naked with a core i9
we're going to re-evaluate d-litting
should you do it
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now both of Intel's current platforms are
notorious for running pretty uh
hot with many enthusiasts pointing to
Intel's use of a paste rather than solder based thermal
interface material between the heat producing dye and the protective heat
spreader over top of it so
let's take a look at our tools
this guy right here is
oh man it's gonna be such comment fodder okay
so this is the derbauer d-lid mate 2. the tool
itself actually pretty straightforward it's two
metal pieces here and a hex wrench
so the CPU sits in the grooves here with the arrow
pointing to wait a minute Anthony did you delid this already
yes the ihs isn't on right
it's uh it's 90 degrees off okay
well you know what that's okay because this is a good opportunity
to show you guys how it works so i'm going to de-lit it again so we can put
it back on properly pretty much you slide this second piece
in here you tighten up this screw as much as you
can by hand you throw in the hex wrench and
bippity boppity boop
that's all there is to it the hex crew pulls against the ihs with mechanical
force causing its silicone seal to break
and you have got yourself a d-lidded CPU
then we just need to scrape off the silicone
clean that baby up and oh look how shiny
it is okay now you could technically run a CPU like
this with the cooler straight on the die but with modern Intel processors it's
impractical for a couple of reasons not the least of which is that in order to
get good contact between your cooler and the CPU you have to remove the retention
mechanism meaning there's no easy way to keep the CPU in the socket etc etc etc
so what most people are doing is they're
taking their d-lidded processor they're using a higher quality thermal compound
so we'll be using thermal grizzly also provided by derbauer and they're pretty
much gluing that sucker back together so we're just going to take
some pretty generic silicone junk here that
we pulled out of a tube in our caulking gun we put it in a
syringe and we're just gonna kind of yeah i'm not doing a very nice job of
this but whatever you guys get the point okay so that's on there
we take just a little bit of thermal compound
then we take our CPU we put it back in the delidding tool aligning the triangle
with the triangle not triangle with the dot and
we take our ihs and we put that on aligning the dot with
the dot bippity boppity
all right then to make sure that our ihs is aligned correctly we jam this baby in
here and you take the included
little turny screwy grippy doodad here
you tighten this baby down right on the center
there we go and then leave it for about half an hour
to harden back on anyway though d-litting the 7700k that's been done to
death that's the boring one good thing Anthony
already has the performance numbers that demonstrate that as long as you're
willing to give up your warranty this
safer way of de-litting is a fantastic
way to significantly drop your CPU temperatures which is obviously
a good thing wait
how did he get performance numbers on this if the ihs was on the wrong way
you know what forget it i don't even want to know because the main event
today is the prototype
der bauer d-lidding tool for x-299
this one works a little differently
using the force from this lever right
here to push the ihs but the whole thing
is still powered by a hex screw with one
of these included allen wrenches so we're going to be delitting the core
i9 7900x
because we like to live dangerously get
on in here dennis come on get a look at this man
so we put the CPU in
aligning the triangle right there with the triangle right there so that's all
pretty straightforward so far it sits in there nice and snug
all right then in theory and i haven't read the
instructions we just do this look at this thing look
at how like over the thing is so german you'll turn this thing and then it
pushes this thing which in turn pushes this thing like
so over engineered i love everything about it
okay it's getting tight now
i'm getting tense oh it's getting really tight now
okay oh man that's a lot of pressure
this is legitimately getting really hard to push oh
okay this is this is tense oh my goodness
i think it's off okay i think it's off
okay thousand dollar processor kids
ladies and gentlemen thousand dollar
chip oh oh wow
oh there it goes holy crap
look at the way that thing is assembled it's got silicone sealant up the butt
okay oh baby
hopefully this thing still works oh i need my alcohol
this kind so
same basic procedure let's clean her up
he's shiny baby shiny
now apply our silicone again
apply our thermal grizzly again this time using the handy dandy applicator
end
um i'm trying to oh oh lordy oh lordy oh this is bad
oh that's way too much thermal compound is awful it is awful okay
that's it i'm never going to be a professional thermal compound applier
oh really this time get this it's dot to triangle
so we go ahead and put that baby on there we do not have an alignment tool
this time so we're just gonna have to yolo it
then we throw the whole thing back in the
deleting tool and we clamp her down
that's right giving her the clamps baby it should be fine
everything's fine moment of truth time my friends
let's get this installed in the socket here
so again triangle the triangle hopefully that orientation works just fine for us
here cooler time here we'll just be using ic
diamond let's throw this baby on here
where my thumb screws be at beaches
is it going to post or what
it just posted it did oh yeah
okay so the CPU still works that's good so
now all we got to do is throw our overclock profile on
and then we can do some temp results for you guys
uh what just happened well that's not good
this is better than it was really yeah it was 105.
oh no um okay
i mean it's hitting that again but not immediately like it did before okay so
we just need to wait 10 minutes for our final result here
so here we are and we can actually kind of wrap things up here our core i7
managed a 17 degree delta at 4.8
gigahertz allowing it to run at that speed for half an hour for a stress test
with no throttling whatsoever cool as for our core i9 well
it looks like our overclock wasn't 100 stable our system actually crashed but
the good news is that while we were still running at super high temperatures
come on in here we actually thermal throttled
less than we did for our first run-through
before d-lidding okay so it's actually a few days later
and what we saw with our overclocked result turned out to surprisingly be a
result of the better cooling performance
even though the temperatures weren't that different so if we look at the
graphs our Intel tim overclock test was
tripping thermal protection despite a very modest voltage bump of only 10
millivolts so you can actually see it as it drops in the CPU load that's reported
in task manager and also in the reported temps
with thermal grizzly conduct-a-knot it actually stabilized and then that was
what revealed that our overclocked frequency wasn't stable
so since we can't put a number on that type of improvement what we'll do is
revert to comparing our stock cooling performance
and wouldn't you know it we actually got 20 degrees lower on the maximum reported
temperatures after delitting 20 degrees
so it's crystal clear then that Intel stock tim is basically toothpaste by
comparison but should you void the warranty on your
brand new thousand dollar CPU well given that this tool isn't even out yet to say
nothing of the mess of the silicone adhesive
that's a solid no i think for most people but
if you're looking to squeeze every last bit of performance out of your new
workstation and you don't mind the risks involved
well there are definitely gains to be
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