Rumor: Ivy Bridge-E Core i7 4960X Delidded – Uses Solder, Not Paste

One of the hottest debates is the proper use of thermal paste and if it deserves to be under the "lid" of your shiny new Haswell and Ivy Bridge CPU of if Intel should go back to soldering the heatspreader to the CPU.  In case you ddn't know Ivy Bridge ushered in the age of awesome transistors and hotter than normal processor temps thanks to using dry chunky thermal paste between the CPU and heatspreader.  While these temps are within Intel spec the fact that a CPU is running 60c under load and the heatsink tops out at 29c tells us that something isn't getting transfered correctly.

And yes, the heatsink was mounted properly.

These rumored photos of a delidded Core i7 4960X Ivy Bridge-E CPU shows that Intel continues to use solder on their server and high end CPU models.

With any luck Ivy Bridge E and Haswell E will both have soldered connections and in the meantime I'll be in the back room cutting the lid off my CPU and replacing the thermal paste with something better.  With any luck I'll be able to get a few more Ghz from the chip and be able to use it in heatsink tests.

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