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Britton30 said:

Looking good Doug, I'll never understand how you were able to use the Intel cooler.

It did have a good run but the 920 is way better. I saved it, might have the intel bronzed

Excellent

Dude said:

Applied better paste, seems to be better now I will get better fans

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Very nice voltage and temps Doug

Brian asked me what paste I used, it was the paste I got with the N520. I will get some artic silver next week. It idles a lot lower, it helps that the temps have dropped here after the rain. Look at the difference between the cores.

That`s because there`s garbage thermal grease under the heat spreader, I showed you guys a few months ago the you tube guide of the kid scrapping off the heat spreader, then placing any good thermal compound over the cores, then putting the heat spreader back on. After that`s done, the cores temps are all but identical.

Fixing Haswell and Ivy Bridge CPU temps: IHS removal - YouTube

I`m gonna do it to my i5 now that I have another cpu

What he scraped off is the TIM that Intel uses since Ivy, prior the heat spreader was soldered on. Delidding is very risky, one wrong move with the blade and a $330 CPU is destroyed. But I may try it.

From what I understand, it's more of an issue with the "glue" that holds the heat spreader on that is too thick, causing the heat spreader to sit too far above the cores to cool like it should.

I wont try the delidding. The core temps are closer under load.

I tried it on a Celeron, it was easy.

kbrady1979 said:

From what I understand, it's more of an issue with the "glue" that holds the heat spreader on that is too thick, causing the heat spreader to sit too far above the cores to cool like it should.

I agree with you 100% on that too, Kelly :)