I have made the decision to delid my i7 8700k due to high temps.

essenbe said:

Great job Paul. Welcome to the "Delidded Club".

Thanks Steve :)

Cliff S said:

Great going Paul, now you got them thermals down, how about getting them clocks up

Thanks Cliff. Lol I think I will just see how she goes for a while. Not sure about this Corsair RMA now either. I was quite shocked to get a 28C drop after gaming and the new temps seem reasonable enough to suggest the cooler isn't actually failing.

Hi,
Get Steve to compare temps and y'all use the same multipliers
Otherwise yeah just monitor the pump and you can always reopen the rma if you need too I did :)

ThrashZone said:

Hi,
Get Steve to compare temps and y'all use the same multipliers
Otherwise yeah just monitor the pump and you can always reopen the rma if you need too I did :)

Thanks, yeah gonna keep a close eye on everything for a while.

Great job Paul

How's this look? 5 mins in on Prime95 4.7Ghz @1.248v

Dude said:

Great job Paul

Thanks Doug :). It was a little scary doing it but everything went according to plan and it was much easier than I thought in the end.

paulpicks21 said:

Thanks Doug :). It was a little scary doing it but everything went according to plan and it was much easier than I thought in the end.

Yeah, I bet. I was to nervous to do mine so I sent it in. Very happy with the results

Dude said:

Yeah, I bet. I was to nervous to do mine so I sent it in. Very happy with the results

I don't blame you bud. You know me though, I like taking risks lol. This was a very calculated risk though not like the old days of delidding where you would slice it off with a razor. Couple of turns of the alan key and the top was off with no hassle at all.

Dude said:

Yeah, I bet. I was to nervous to do mine so I sent it in. Very happy with the results

Hi,
Yeah silicon lottery was a good one
Bad one was they charged me twice as much for 7900x

Great Job Paul

Just a note about the RMA to corsair, My pump showed it was working great but the temps still went up (and back to normal at times). Think it was air in the system as when I tapped the hot pipe the temps went back down but will climb again soon after. Had to do that a few time a day until I decided to RMA my AIO.