Alternate option; some crazy ******* peels the lid off, sticks some solder in, heatguns, wins? Could kill the CPU, but could also give one of the best overclocking CPUs on air/water for a long while.
Unbearable music, video is awful and he is using what looks like nail scissors (edit - cheap penknife as tangster said ) and some random plastic thing to smash it off.. Certainly looks like tim tho.. and not mx4
bollocks. its not the thermal paste. http://www.overclock.net/t/1250479/...lems-persist-even-with-the-removal-of-its-ihs
It was already knackered I think. It's one of his first posts. But yeah... nice workmanship going on there... lol
He used a cooler designed for an IHS mount - I also don't think there was proper contact, I know I'd be wary of cracking my chip. There hasn't been a proper test yet imo.