The EK naked IVY kit does NOT work for me with Skylake.... Tried with 2 motherboards, fails to boot with LED on motherboard giving CPU initialization error.
Boots perfectly if just placing IHS back on...
The PCB is thinner, and the IHS is fatter to compensate. Therefore when mounting naked without the IHS compensating in height it is NOT the same as IVY/Haswell as the EK rep suggested.
Tried with both asus and msi z170 motherboard. No post until putting IHS back on...
I believe the naked EK kit needs even shorter offsets for it to work with skylake.
Please help EK !
You see the IHS makes up for the height difference, NOT the socket ! SO EK NAKED KIT DOES NOT WORK FOR SKYLAKE! WARNING
Weirdly it seems to ! Or my chip is to blame somehow ?
Even though I mounted it 5 or 6 times on 2 different boards, and it feels very solid on there too.. Both boards say "Cpu initialization error" in the LED code and no image, and no post at all.
Soon as I put motherboard bracket on and normal offsets and stuck the IHS back on under the clamp. Booted perfectly !
When you get rid of the ihs, you apply top pressure to cpu die area (center only),
at the same time socket underneath counters this force around the center and near the edges of pcb.
My guess would be the thinner pcb flexes more and causes some contact problems.
Delidded my skylake... thought i killed, but no, only wrong pressure. The pressure with ihs is huge. So without the BIG pressure it will not function corretly. Tested on Asus viii hero... and msi xpower titanium. With IHS on i hear the pins underneath cpu almost crunching the way down until correct pressure. Im must also stress, that the substrate of skylake is VERY fragile. With normal tim my skylake bends a little even with soft hands to unmount from my EK evo. Not sure if it will damage cpu with Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra to unmount from EK cpu head
I messured the chip height from substrat. It's very close to 0.5 millimeters... (0.49xxxx) So to stabilize the cpu, i used a little thermal pad leftovers and machine screws for the mobo.
But i have mounted the ihs again until final build, to be sure
Old but what a poor suggestion.. it needs basically LESS of a shim.. not more to allow the water block to come down more because of the way the Supremacy blocks work. Glad I saw this I was bout to do the same thing.
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