Is it normal for 13th gen to have big variance of up to 8c between each package in performance cores?

    • nopenopenope54@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Thanks! Just variance in IHS / cooler contact then I guess. Do you happen to know if there’s any way to get more even temps?

      • charonme@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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

        • nopenopenope54@alien.topOPBEnglish
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          1 year ago

          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.