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I took the IHS off of my Opteron 144 yesterday. I'm on mid-range watercooling and my idle temps are 24c, with max load at 39c. Before I took it off my temps were 30c idle and 53c load. I wouldn't recommend removing it if you are happy with your temps, but if you are unhappy with them as I was, and you trust yourself with a stanley knife, go for it.

Oh its on there perfectly, I've checked and rechecked this. It is very firm, with a thin layer. I didn't make any newbie mistakes as I tried to convey in the first post. Peanya - temps near 60c are normal even on watercooling? Hard to believe if you ask me - I'm only running about 1.5v when it gets up that high. I think I'm just going to remove it and see what happens. I'll be very careful, and if it doesn't help much... hey atleast I've satisfied myself. If I break it, well losing $150 is better than losing $600-$800.

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Greetings folks. I suppose I'll start by providing as many details as humanly possible. I am an experienced overclocker, and I've been doing extensive research for tweaking purposes. I noticed that according to many sources, my Opteron is one of the best for overclocking. My board and BIOS are also supposedly a nice combination. Basically everything in my sig should, in theory, go together well. And they do, until I try to go past 9x280. I can get up to this point on stock voltages with an x3 HTT multiplier and a RAM divider at 133 (for finding CPU's max). Past this it takes .25-.5 increases to voltage per 50 mhz to get Prime stability, and going past 2.75 ghz not even 1.7 volts will stabilize the system. I expected a bit more from this processor considering I am using an Asetek Waterchill Antarctica cooling setup with a Dangerden waterblock on the CPU. I didn't newbishly cake on the AS5, I put as thin a layer of it as possible between the CPU and waterblock. Using Smartguardian I found that while priming the CPU gets up to nearly 60c, but idles at 28-31c. This is unacceptable. Comparing these results to the results of others, this should not be happening especially when I'm on water and comparing my results to people on air. There is only one thing I can think of - the IHS is on poorly and not properly conducting heat from the core to the IHS. That is the only explanation I have for why temperatures increase so rapidly and peak at such a high number. So my question is, unless anyone can think of anything else, would it be safe to remove the IHS using every precaution I've read on these forums? Could someone share advice and/or experiences?