Ivy Bridge-E to use solder instead of paste? If you were disappointed by the overclocking ability of the Intel’s Ivy Bridge and their latest architecture Haswell, you might want to check these pictures out.

User “Toppc” on the Taiwanese forum Coolaler is apparently in possession of at least one Ivy Bridge-E Core i7 4960x, and has taken the liberty of delidding it for his fellow members. This is done by extreme overclockers to replace the paste-type thermal interface material began using when manufacturing Ivy Bridge, and continuing with Haswell. One CPUs prior to these, solder was used between the CPU and the heat spreader (the part that actually makes contact with the heatsink).