Intel Kaby Lake Potentially an Overclocker's Dream, Seen Breaking 7GHz with LN2

Re:Intel Kaby Lake Potentially an Overclocker's Dream, Seen ... by SnowProblem on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @10:58AM (#13271295)

I remember overclocking 12 years ago and upgrading the cooler and thermal paste was standard practice. Is something different this time?

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Re:Intel Kaby Lake Potentially an Overclocker's Dream, Seen ... by joncrane on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @12:05PM (#13271829)

He means the thermal paste between the chip itself and the metal top (aka heatspreader). The metal top is the part the user-supplied thermal paste goes onto, and the cooler block sticks onto.

There's also another thermal paste sandwich UNDER that that you'd have to do some very delicate surgery to modify.

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Re:Intel Kaby Lake Potentially an Overclocker's Dream, Seen ... by SnowProblem on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @12:32PM (#13272043)

Ah, that's very interesting. Thanks.

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