Hullo cooling peeps again. Yes I know I have lotsa questions but hey, it is here that we learn in the forum right?

So recently I read a few articles about IHS removal. IHS stands for Integrated Heat Spreader which is the square block you can find on an AMD CPU (I'm not sure about Intel cos I've never touched one ). It looks likes this:


Courtesy from jijau's thread.

Yea so the thing on the left is the IHS and on the right is the actual CPU. Yes, for those of you who don't know, the actual chip that does all the work and produces all the heat is just that small square in the middle.

Now here comes the myth. Or truth...
They say that removing the IHS so that your heatsink can directly be in contact with the chip in the center will help you better in the cooling performance. Does it really help?

Btw, I found smtg which might be a bad news to those who are keen on trying this out.

Sounds scary...

Hmmm I guess its not such a good idea since DaRkSyThE says that it does not have huge difference in the temp drop.

But what happens if ur IHS is dented or not flat anymore (maybe due to changing heatsink many times)?

Any good sites to teach how to lap an IHS?

*btw sorry to the moderators have to combine my thread with this... I didnt know there was an earlier thread.. could not search for three character words I-H-S *