3770k delid or not?

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nrok45

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I currently have my 3770k clocked at 4.5ghz with 1.28 vcore. My highest temps while running prime run in the low 80's.

I was wondering if i delided and bumped up my clocks to 4.8-.4.9ghz would I notice a sizable difference in performance? I mainly just play fps's and mmo's with a bit of light encoding.

I would say I'm fine with where it's at now but that urge for more speed always creeps up lol. I would just like to know if the gain would be worth popping my cpu open to lower the temps and up the voltage.
 
what cooler are you using? delid certainly can help but that chip at 4.5-4.6 is blazing fast very few if anything will truly benefit from higher then that, temps will get out of hand and power will go through the roof for what, an extra 10frames in games that you are well into the playable frames anyways. Look up some reviews of them running at sick clock speeds and see the outright benefit of doing so, I am quite sure its not magnitudes faster for the huge increase in temps/power and this will also require very specific coolers not all coolers were designed to wick away this type of heat from such a small area, wonder why they get this hot to begin with hmm.
 
Delid. Remove the black adhesive from the heat spreader & cpu. Then use liquid metal tim between the heatspreader & cpu. Use your favorite tim between cpu & cooler.
 
Yeah I've read over on ocn about a guy who used coolabratory ultra between his heatspreader and heatsink and it actually bonded together and ripped the spreader apart when he tried to remove it. I've been out of the loop thermal paste wise, so I was wondering if anyone knew who offers the best thermal paste nowadays? Last time I looked into thermal paste Arctic Silver 5 was still king
 
A quick google will give you that answer.

Now it is mainly preference, all the top running compounds are within a ~1-3 C delta of each other, my personal preference is Noctua NT-H1, alot like Shin-Etsu, MX-4, TX-4, etc. etc. Pick your poison
 
Yeah from what I looked into now there are many thermal pastes that are at the top of the heap. Back in the day everyone swore by arctic silver. Thanks for the suggestions :)
 
well Col ultra would be great as a tim when delidded but I would use something else under the heatsink itself such as Shin Etsu, MX4, NTH1, Prolimatech PK1 or whatever that one is called, this way here if you need to remove the heatsink you can :p TIM as mentioned are usually only a few c separating each other that is with proper application on a clean surface, I myself prefer MX4 it does a great job though that liquid metal one works wonders if one keeps in mind that once it is set its set, Col Ultra and Col Liquid PRO are better for certain things I believe the ultra was better under the cap, liquid pro for heatsinks.
 
Yeah that's why I had some reservations on using CLP. Liquid metal sounds cool and performs amazing, but I like to know that if I wanted to I could easily clean some normal paste off compared to having to potentially sand that stuff off when it's set.
 
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