Well after trying 3GHz and failing with voltages up to 1.5 (reported) I knew it was time for this processor to go naked! And by “naked” I mean it was time to remove the integrated heatspreader (IHS). The IHS does work to spread out the heat from the core, but that’s what we have heatsinks or whatever for. The IHS just adds one more layer for heat to pass through to escape and no matter how perfectly its done, it always retains more heat.

This is something I do not recommend and should ONLY be done if you can afford to lose the processor, because there’s a high probability of that if you don’t know what you are doing. If you want to know more about how to do it then search Google, because I’m not going to be held responsible. :P



In the process of doing this I bent a pin on the bottom side and didn’t know it. I managed to fit the CPU back in the socket (which made it worse) and almost broke the pin off after taking it back apart and realizing what I’d done. It would have been a real shame to have killed this one.