Waterkoelerfabrikant EK Water Blocks has a mounting kit to be released which heatsinks on the processors can be mounted that has no heatspreader. The heat sink can directly contact with the silicon for better cooling.
The Slovenian company EK Water Blocks has a kit released that allows existing coolers on Ivy Bridge cpus without a heatspreader can be mounted. The EK-Supremacy PreciseMount Add-on Naked Ivy, as the set is called, works with EK’s existing universal PreciseMount-mounting kits for the EK-Supremacy series waterblokken. With the screws for fixing the heat sink a bit lower on the motherboard is mounted to the thickness of the removed ihs to compensate. The kit will cost 3,95 euros.
The removal of the ihs, an abbreviation for the integrated heatspreader either the nickel-plated copper shield over the silicon of a processor is, would be in theory better cooling performance. An intermediate stage, with less than optimal heat transfer, is then skipped, so that heat is more effectively transported. In Ivy Bridge processors is the heatspreader is not soldered to the who: in previous generations, like Sandy Bridge, that is the case, making removal of the ihs, the cpu would be damaged.
With Ivy Bridge processors would be the Intel applied thermal paste between ihs and that of moderate quality have been, what to the excessive heat development could provide when overclocking. The removal of the ihs will void the warranty: the ihs is glued on the pcb of the processor and the secondary slice of silicon is without heatspreader are very vulnerable.
