Delidding a CPU is the process of removing its integrated heat spreader, or IHS. This is quite a drastic procedure and runs the risk of damaging or even breaking your processor. But — and it’s a big ...

Direct-die cooling has always been the holy grail of CPU cooling. By removing a CPU's integrated heat spreader (IHS), a cooler's cold plate can make direct contact with the CPU die(s), allowing for a ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The process of delidding your CPU is exactly as it sounds — it's the removal of the lid-like metal integrated heat spreader (IHS) from a ...

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Thermal Grizzly are well known for their high-performance thermal paste, but they’re also an innovator for advanced cooling solutions and accessories. Today, they’ve revealed the launch of the Intel ...

AMD shows off its first 2nm-class Venice CPU die built using TSMC's N2 node Venice, built on Zen 6, targets high-performance computing workloads AMD and TSMC hope to deepen their collaboration for ...

Popular German overclocker der8auer delided a Ryzen 7 8700G to see what untapped performance could be squeezed out of AMD’s latest Zen 4 APU. He found that delidding the chip and replacing the stock ...

Fake Intel CPU packages, specifically the Intel Core i9 14900K, have been found on sale in China that are completely missing a silicon chip underneath their heatspreader. The CPUs were being sold as ...

A die shot of AMD’s upcoming hybrid accelerated processing unit with Zen 4 and Zen 4c general-purpose cores has been published by hardware leaker HXL. According to Toms Hardware the APU is expected to ...

I forgot to post this when it happend (about a week ago)...but it's still a fresh exciting story!<BR><BR>My second computer is an AthlonXP 1600, with a big ol' PAL8045 heatsink and a decently big/loud ...