ДЄnd вЂ“ so much for using water cooling or other expensive cooling solutions. So much for 'use a little less thermal paste' or 'newer intel cpus have decent thermal material'. I just have to wait until my abrasive paper in different coarsings arrives. In the next step I will lap my IHSВ inside and outsideВ to have the surface perfectly even, and to expose the copper (which is a better conducter than the nickel coating). I will use Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut from now on, as it seems the best thermal paste available. (Funny thing: after my excitement over the easy delidding success, I FORGOT to put thermal past between IHS and cooler, and you know what? The temps were nevertheless better as before! Stress test max temp 70 with fan speed 2123.)Д«y the way, the 'IC Diamond', which Linus is recommending, has no better performance than the thermal paste included with 'Be Quiet Dark Rock 3'. On fan speed 2123 temperatures would probably drop another couple of degrees.Д«oth times there were LOTS OF thermal paste between IHS and Cooler вЂ“ as 'just one drop' is NEVER enough to cover the whole IHS, especially if you have (and the chances are nearly 100 %) an unperfect IHS and/or Cooler surface, regarding evenness. My 6700K 4.5 GHz overclock was running at max temp 72 with 'yes stress test' on 8 threads, fan speed 2123 (little bit noisy).ДЄfter delidding (corners with a thin razor blade, doing the rest with a credit card) and using Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut, it runs under the same condition (except that I forgot to fix fan speed for the tests) at max temp 66, fan speed 1389 (almost silent).

I7 6700k cpu stress test