My 6700 just arrived, I put it in, and temps were in the high 80's when running unigine heaven. And my GPU was bottlenecked by thermal throttling. So I delid it.... with a vise. (I've hard great luck... but not this time). And things didn't go great. I didn't get it fully get it de-lided.... The silicon was too strong. I broke part of the CPU. (Didn't take a picture....) But it looked something like this(not nearly as bad, but it did crack and fray along the side)
I had to see if it was still working. I installed it back into the hp z240 that I pulled it from. It showed up in the bios which is a good sign. So I loaded up windows 10. it would not stay on for more than 20 seconds when booted into windows home screen. I think I only messed up the igpu. I shut it off and booted again and I could still enter into the bios and it showed up w/o an issue!
So I proceeded to give it a shot and continue delidding it. I pulled out a razor and went to town. I VERY CAREFULY, went around the sides. And then 3d printed a delid tool, and finished the delid. It went well. I leaned off the thermal paste, silicone and put come liquid metal on it. I bought a copper ihs from rockitcool. Put it on and put it in my en1070k. I have been running it for ~an hour and a half on unigine heaven and topped out at 81°c but stayed closer to 75°. Then I looked at hwmonitor. So it seems like the CPU can only get at max 40w. (I also bought a dell 330w power brick to ensure the CPU would get enough power) but I don't think it's necessary. Another thing I noticed is that the max frequency it was at was 3.7ghz. this is still better than the ~3.3ish my old 7500t was at. And it has hyper threading.
Now I'm working at modding the case... I bought this w/o a case on hardwareswap a few months back. And I had been searching for a case on eBay. A month ago I found on in Germany I ordered it and when it arrived I realized they shipped me the wrong one. I got a en970 case not a en1070 one. So I cut the hell out of the case. (The I/o was not the same, and some of them didn't line up... Specifics are in the imgur album)
I'm planning to use 2 noctua 60mm fan to help air intake. The fans in the system are not normal pwm connectors, but they are the same as GPU fan cables. So I came up with a set of wires and splitters (one I had to solder myself) to have all the fans powered off of the CPU fan. This cable is a bit of a mess... It goes motherboard vga connector -> 4 pin pwm -> PWM y splitter. That pwm y splitter has one cable that goes back to vga (so the original fan can be powered) the other end has another y splitter which power the 2 noctua nf-a6x25's.
Temps are not a whole lot different with the 2 noctua fans (about 2-3° cooler) so I'm still debating on keeping them or taking them out. They would be bolted down with m4x35mm bolts and nuts. And you have a fan grill on them (to keep things from going into the blades)
Haven't committed to the fans yet. If I don't add the fans then I will just add the fan grills with a little glue. I don't want to drill the holes into the case if I don't keep them, but I think it will help other components in the case with the are in there.
