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Oh boy, let's delid a 7700k! This will be fun ** EPIC FAIL PICTURES **

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#1 ·
Woo! Got a nice 5.1Ghz 7700k but it runs a bit hot, let's delid it! Look at this beauty:



Oh yeah, check it out!



Now that's a nice cpu right there.

Got my delid kit 3d printed, going to be fun!



Uh oh, looks like some capacitors are trying to run away, get back here so I can delid the cpu!



Just another shot of those sneaky capactiors running away:



I added a nice electrical tape blanket for them to keep them warm. Unfortunately they're too shy to work again:



Let's solder them back (HELP ME, I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I AM DOING. WHAT IS SOLDERING)



OH GOD THEY ARE MUTANTS! RUN! (Worst solder job in the world)



Please do not laugh at my amazing solder skills:



Hiding the mess so no one can see the horrors beneath the cpu:



IT'S ALIVE!:



Moral of the story: Make sure the delid kit is rotated properly and the space for capacitors is aligned correctly. Still want to delid this baby, just not tonight.

1/21/2017 UPDATE

My Liquid Ultra arrived today and I am ready to properly delid my CPU


This was super easy and took me about 5 minutes total (being super carful)


Cleaned it all up


Quick test... it's not booting, oh my god not again


This time I really messed it up and took me another 2 hours of soldering. Here is CLU applied:


Results @ 5Ghz after 10 minutes of prime 56c max (before it would just go up to 80c in 1 minute and crash). Will test it for longer tonight.


Aida64 for 20 min:


I also noticed one of my Quick Disconnects was leaking:



Good thing I had a spare to replace. Anyway CLU result for me -30c. Highly recommend delidding 7700k as results are amazing.

Got my motherboard added to the loop today:



Next to external 1080 (3x360) radiator:
 
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#4 ·
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Originally Posted by MoGTy View Post

You're kidding right?

You failed to delid, damaged some capacitors, did a bad soldering job and that thing still works?

I'm impressed.
Not only that, I had to reseat the cpu at least 20 times. The best part was searching for the missing capacitors on the floor for about 2 hours at night. Oh and I almost forgot that I used a wrong Qtip with TIM paste so I soaked all of those capacitors in the back with TIM paste (that's why there is white around each capacitor.
 
#8 ·
so, when are you going to delid?
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#11 ·
Reminds me of the time about three years ago when I accidentally dropped a brand-new FX-8350 on the floor and bent a few hundred pins on the bottom. It took me a day to get all of those things lined back up well enough to get the chip into a socket. Since that day, I never take an AMD processor out of its holder, even just to examine it, until it's going to be moved directly into the motherboard.
 
#13 ·
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Originally Posted by looniam View Post

so, when are you going to delid?
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In a couple of weeks when CLU comes. I wanted to try without and use GC Extreme for now.
c'mon you know you want to, just don't glue the IHS back down. . . . .
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oh, your'e out of solder, huh?
 
#17 ·
I once tried to lift an X plate off the back of my old Asus board with a screwdriver. This was when I upgraded to my current board in 2011. It dug into the board, chomped through several traces, not just on the surface of the board, but left a deep enough crater to likely have severed some of the internal traces as well. I tried some other things but they also damaged the traces. Eventually I got the brace off.

I thought there was little chance for its survival, so i put it in a box. A year or so later I got it out for the hell of it and tried it. It worked. In fact, it still works.

It does have a few quirks now though. One or two of the ram slots are possibly dead, and putting it into sleep causes major issues. It won't wake up, or even boot again without a cmos reset!
 
#19 ·
LOL. Might I suggest investing in a ~15W pencil iron or springing for a temperature controlled iron, and maybe grab yourself some crap circuit boards and cpus to practice on
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I couldn't afford such a blunder.

Thumbs up for the effort and resulting thread though hahah. Ultra reps for the home depot hose clamps
 
#22 ·
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Originally Posted by TheCautiousOne View Post

After doing a De-lid on the 4770k with a free razor from detail ( Wash area for the car dealership) I would never need an alternative as it was so easy.

Glad it still works.

TCO
Razor delidding is easy until you mess up and cut into your PCB(permanently dead...)
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@rootwoot Can't belive that gory solder job actually worked, congrats man.
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#23 ·
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Originally Posted by TheCautiousOne View Post

After doing a De-lid on the 4770k with a free razor from detail ( Wash area for the car dealership) I would never need an alternative as it was so easy.

Glad it still works.

TCO
I have already some CLU here just didnt delided yet because my hands shake too much. Waiting a rockit kit from mail.
 
#25 ·
Thank you OP, I no longer feel bad about accidentally bending a few pins on my first Intel board
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