Right, I was thinking about this. So it's not possible to simply tweak the cooler, the way it mounts? Because I was also wondering about using a GPU heatsink on a CPU.
Here's Linus delidding and relidding,
He gets a couple degrees improvement. He said with a better paste maybe a couple more, so let's say 4°C, using a stock cooler. I wish he would repeat the test 3 times or so to get an average. Anyhow, if the lid weren't replaced, I'm guessing that would make a much bigger difference. No lid and best thermal paste I'm guessing 10°C ? which to me is good, considering no extra space/weight or cost to the system.
I could ask a friend to delid, or try one of those 3d printed delidders.
Here's a service that 'relids' CPUs, and claims 12° to 25°C improvement on Kabylake. But again, delidding should be even better than 12° to 25° relidding, no?
Here's their 7700k, it says it run @ 4.9GHz, so is it overclocked? That doesn't make sense to me. Base clock is 4.2 GHz...
Buying it here is the same price as Newegg, so why not? They even have a warranty. If I can just figure out how to mount the heatsink.
Here's a list of people delidding and their improvements,
It says they're all getting between 20-30°C temp 'Gain'. I'm guessing it means temp lost? As in losing is good, so it's a gain?
Also there's a column "Mhz gained", as well as OCing column. Mhz gained is like a natural increase to base clock? I don't understand it (probly something really basic I'm missing about how a CPU works).
