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EDIT: One more question dudes, how much time later should I replace my thermal paste again?
If you did apply the thermal paste properly it should last several years. Normally you'd replace the thermal paste only if you suspect huge crazy temperatures on normal usage of your PC which means the thermal grease has lost its thermal property.
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But nowaday Intel sucks at CPU temperatures.
Yeah let's not go down that road. That would be stupid. For you.
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Did the service guy take a payment?

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Marcell: Implying the general temperatures of all Intel processors has spiked in recent years because they fucked up with the 7700k is ridiculous.

The general temperatures of all Intel processors have spiked since Ivy Bridge (3---, 2012) consumer CPUs. Apparently it's cheaper to use toothpaste than soldering. Skylake/Kaby Lake/i9 Series are no different. Top kek for the Intel high-end.

Did the service guy take a payment?

I was about only to want him to remove that screw. However, when he removed that screw, I also wanted to show him what I displaced, the heatsink. I shouldn't have wanted that

So he's taken over the job, and wanted his money

Let's look from a positive way; I didn't waste any of my thermal paste!
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Marcell: Implying the general temperatures of all Intel processors has spiked in recent years because they fucked up with the 7700k is ridiculous. I never said they didn't make a mistake. Your whole post reeks of salt which in your case is well placed but you don't have to rant about it and spew out crap generalizing their whole production under one faulty processor lineup.

Yes, this happens with most of new Intel ones as well. They use the same technology on the latest i9 which is ridiculous. Because I have only 4 cores and 4 thread, but i9 will have even more cores which sometimes means more temperatures. The only nice thing with AMD they make their CPUs soldered not like Intel does. But Intel has still more power inside it.

The general temperatures of all Intel processors have spiked since Ivy Bridge (3---, 2012) consumer CPUs.
Uh, no. The average temps of Ivy were 28 to 35, Kaby Lake is 25 to 33, (35 on the i7). These are idle temps, on load the Kaby Lake is still lower than older gens.
Temps have stayed the around the same but have never spiked, only decreased. By the way the max temp of an Ivy processor was around 70, Kaby's have a max of 100.
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The only reason they did this though was to let people who want a new X299 mobo but don't have the money for an expensive CPU right now can go for the Kaby Lake X. It's a shit move, but understandable.
CoolerMaster V8 and Thermal Grizzly makes a nice couple.

Kaby Lake is still lower than older gens.
I'm not talking about an improved process node (which is obvious that it reduces the thermal output) but the deliberate degradation of the integrated heat spreader leading to higher temperatures.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ivy-bridge-overclocking-high-temp,15512.html - here, in plain and without jokes.

Also, enthusiasts can get a delidding kit (or not, good luck) and can make direct contact with the heat spreader on the cooler, which means lower temps. None enthusiasts will not buy the k versions or never even use the full potential of overclocking, meaning they won't even need to delid.
They're not idiots at Intel, you know.


-> uses solder: No


-> uses solder: Yes
