In the right circumstances, delidding can make a noticeable difference and allow more headroom for overclocking your CPU.

James undergoes a new project - delidding an Intel 12900k processor and then Direct Die Cooling. Today we present Part 1, ...

AMD could soon expand its Ryzen AI 300 CPU series with a Ryzen 5, for which a new low-end die is to be used for the first ...

Delidding a CPU can make it run much cooler, helping you quiet down your fans and improve performance. Here's why you should (or shouldn't) do it.

Noctua is also selling the direct-die kit for a song, as it's just 4.9 euros. If that's beyond your budget, and you have a 3D printer, the company has made the schematics available for anyone to ...

It has one CPU core die with a stacked cache die that all cores on the CPU die can access very quickly. The cache die makes a difference in gaming, so the 9800X3D is better than all non-X3D chips ...

One of the fringe benefits of the 7950HX3D was also lower power usage and higher efficiency since the CPU die with the cache stacked on top needed to be run at a lower voltage to prevent ...

More to the point, like its AMD Ryzen 7 7700X sibling, this is a single-die, eight-core chip with none of the performance compromises that come with AMD's pricier 12 and 16-core CPUs and their ...

When your CPU is under load, check that the fans are spinning. Some PC fans have a mean time to failure rating (MTTF or MTBF), or life expectancy, of as much as 490,000 hours. After the MTTF has ...