Rockit 88 Delid & Relid for LGA 1150 & 1151

I ordered the kit for the 115X socket CPU for my 7700K. When it arrived it didn't look like the picture. It only had 2 of the smaller thumb screws instead of 3. There were small flat head allen screws with a small allen wrench in addition to the big allen wrench. The base that the CPU sits in looked different too. I went to the Rockit88 website and looked at the different kits for each socket type. It looked like I received a kit that was a mix between the 115X socket and the 9th generation socket. There was no way I was going to risk damaging my CPU if this wasn't packaged correctly. I sent a message to the manufacturer through their website along with a few pictures of what I received asking if it was correct. I was pretty sure it had been packaged wrong so I called Amazon and arranged to return it. I then purchased another 115X kit directly from Rockit88. The next morning I received an email from James at Rockit and he said I did indeed receive the correct parts as they redesigned the kit to fit more sockets. Now I felt stupid since I had arranged a return and placed another order. He included an attachment with instructions on how to use the new style kit. I sent him another message asking if he would be able to cancel the order I placed on the Rockit website. He got back to me the next morning and instructed me how to cancel the order. Then he sent another message saying it had already been processed. One last email indicated he was able to stop my order from shipping and cancel the order for a full refund on my credit card. Not many manufacturers would go above and beyond to stop an order like this. I went through the delid/relid process and the tool itself worked perfectly. It is a quality product. I watched many videos and read many articles about delidding so I was confident I had the knowledge to do it right. Upon booting up my computer I had nothing but problems. My monitor had no signal and multiple error codes on my motherboard. I removed the cooler, CPU, memory and graphics card and reseated everything. To my amazement it booted up properly. I either bumped a ram stick or the CPU wasn't seated exactly right. Now the next problem was temperatures that were HIGHER than before the delid. Also I had a huge difference is temp between some of my cores. Again I sent a message to James to see if he had any ideas. He got back to me within 24 hrs again and offered to redo the delid if I shipped him my CPU. He didn't say if there would be a charge for this service but even if there was this was a nice gesture. Before I received his response I had redone the delid myself. I was absolutely amazed that this time my temps were much lower and all the core temps were much closer together. I was able to overclock to a stable 5.0Ghz at 1.330 volts and still have better temps than before the delid. Very happy with that! I don't know what went wrong the first time and there really isn't a way to know. I used Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut between the die and the head spreader. I used Kryonaut between the heat spreader and the all in one water cooler block. I have read some people end up delidding multiple times to get the best results.

Rockit 88 Kit Review: The Rockit 88 kit is super easy. It's well made, and I really liked the wooden stick they include. It makes getting the glue off a cinch. Directions are easy enough to follow for delidding the IHS from the cpu. The only tricky thing is when relidding, just make sure you essentially "clip" the top onto the bottom piece. Make sure it's evenly clipped all the way around. My first attempt I didn't get it fully clipped on right, and had to go through the process again. All in all, it's a great little kit, albeit a little pricey...but will definitely resolve heating issues if you use LM. I tried using MX-4, and did not have good results. You MUST use LM to get something like the i7 7700k under control. I am now a believer in this procedure, and LM. Conductonaut Liquid Metal (LM) Review: So I purchased a Rockit 88 de/re lid kit off Amazon, as well as conductonaut to fix some out of control temps on my i7 7700k. While running Prime95 @4.6 ghz (a very mild OC) I was hitting temps over 90c on multiple cores. My Kraken x72 360mm radiator could not keep up even in performance mode. However, Amazon screwed up and sent me the Rockit 88 kit, but NOT the conductonaut. I had ordered a lot of things, and forgot about the conductonaut, so I delidded and was sitting there with no LM (liquid metal) to put on the processor. So instead, I ordered some MX-4 off PrimeNow. With MX-4, my temps hardly changed. Only dropped a few degrees, and a little more stable without as huge of jumps in temp. I did not find that the MX-4 "cured" my temp issues...so I re-ordered the Conductonaut. After ANOTHER de/relid of the processor with the Conductonaut, success! My temps dropped incredibly. I now Idle ~32-34c, with 100% load on Prime95 sitting me at 60-65c. I cannot believe the incredible difference, especially from such a small amount. Application: So applying this stuff is not as tricky as videos would make you believe. The correct amount to use is as follows, put the tiny metal tip on, and gently squeeze out the smallest amount you can without it falling off the end. Then gently wipe the small little ball of LM onto the processor. This tiny bit is ALL YOU NEED. LM is conductive, so you'll need to find the small golden circles on the board located on the inside of the IHS perimeter, and coat those with clear nail polish. Wait 30 minutes for nail polish to dry. Anyway, the LM is also fairly easy to spread. I taped off the board so only the cpu was showing, and used the provided high quality black q-tip (as it's much better than a standard q-tip), and squished the puddles of LM across the board. You will be surprised how well this stuff spreads with this method. You can coat the whole CPU no problem. It might seem like you won't be able to, but you will. I did NOT apply LM to the IHS. I removed all glue from the IHS, as well as the board, and used as thin of a layer as I could of permatex on the 4 corners of the IHS to relid. You want to ensure that the IHS is essentially contacting the cpu and LM, so you don't want to have any thickness to the Permatex gasket maker on the IHS basically. All you're doing is keeping the lid in place so that you can get it back in your motherboard and the CPU cooler installed again. The CPU cooler will hold the IHS in place from there. You do not need to make a gasket for the gods, that can only be removed with a Hercules level of force. TL:DR - Rockit 88 kit with Conductonaut dropped my temps at least 25 degrees over MX-4 for a de-lid and re-lid procedure on an i7 7700k.

I'm giving this 4/5 stars because instead of 3 thumb screws, I was given 2 thumb screws, 3 hex-key screws, and an extra hex key to screw them in. I was very confused at first because no video I'd seen on this kit included these hex screws. I almost packaged it up to return until I realized it must have been a manufacturer shortage, and this was their substitute. I'm going to be putting it to use tomorrow on my 8700k, and if I run into issues, I'll edit this post, but besides the confusing part issue, it seems to be very high quality. Edit: This worked very well. Almost too well. Dropped temps by 19c running Small FFT's for 30 minutes compared to stock. I used conductonaut on the die and inside of the IHS. I used Kryonaut for the cooler. I did not reseal.

This Delid kit makes breaking the lid off foolproof. Large snapping noise means it is successful. Made of nice sturdy quality. You can do the entire delid process in the tool itself (putting paste/liquid metal, etc, while still in the crevice of the tool). The relid kit did as expected and put the lid on properly, the relid kit also does a good job at pushing down the lid to maximize contact without breaking and leaving it for a couple hours. If you are scared of damaging your cpu but want to delid, this is highly recommended. I recommend getting Thermal grizzly conductonaut for inside, Kryonaut for ontop lid, and some black RTV silicone glue for adhesive. (This ended up being about $120 CAD). Good luck.

このお陰でCPUの殻割りと殻戻しが難無く成功しました。ただ説明書が付属してなかったので、あちこち検索して手順を把握。殻を戻す時にも、製品の台座の上に載せたまま、シーラ跡剥がし、絶縁剤、リキプロ、ゴムシーラを塗布、蓋固定まで一連の作業が出来るので大変安全で楽でした。良く考えられた逸材です。

Work like a charm.easy to use, It's just a shame it only work for a specific size only, i would have loved to delid all my friend's cpu too

This has made the process of delidding my processors a breeze. Great quality and fit of parts. If your looking for a solid delid tool look no further.

Worked perfectly. The whole process of popping the IHS off my 8700K probably took a whole minute at most, and with the arrows to line up the CPU in the hole, it seems pretty fool-proof. The alignment bracket was useful for centering the IHS when I reattached it, though I didn't bother relidding it and simply let the motherboard retention bracket hold it in place. The wooden stick was helpful for cleaning the IHS glue out of hard-to-reach places, and also helped clean up my inevitable mess when applying liquid metal to the die. My only complaint is there wasn't any instructions in the package. It wasn't really an issue since the internet is full of video guides, but something official would have been nice.