If reapplying thermal paste and verifying the heatsink pushes down on the IHS evenly doesn’t help then I suppose what might help is a delid, clean the die, grind down the IHS sides (to reduce the gap between the die and the IHS), apply liquid metal and reseat the IHS
Having done multiple re-seatings and pastes I can confirm that it is currently as good as it will get. The paste spread is near perfect, which is why I am a bit confused here. It’s the same cores regardless of cooler used.
Delidding is a bit outside my comfort zone, and I’m not sure if it’s worth the risk for my use case. Not sure yet how heavy the CPU will be stressed during music / audio projects just yet, but I have a feeling it will get close to 100% by the end stage of big projects.
If reapplying thermal paste and verifying the heatsink pushes down on the IHS evenly doesn’t help then I suppose what might help is a delid, clean the die, grind down the IHS sides (to reduce the gap between the die and the IHS), apply liquid metal and reseat the IHS
Have you delidded your CPU?
Having done multiple re-seatings and pastes I can confirm that it is currently as good as it will get. The paste spread is near perfect, which is why I am a bit confused here. It’s the same cores regardless of cooler used.
Delidding is a bit outside my comfort zone, and I’m not sure if it’s worth the risk for my use case. Not sure yet how heavy the CPU will be stressed during music / audio projects just yet, but I have a feeling it will get close to 100% by the end stage of big projects.
not yet, maybe in 3 years :)