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AMD Zen 4 (Ryzen 7000?) Processor Gets Delidded!
AMD is excepted to formally announce the launch of its new Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 processors at some point around September/October this year. – With the transition to a new AM5 socket, and LGA 1718 chipset (and not to mention Team Red’s introduction of DDR5 memory, therefore, there is clearly…
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Caseking Now Selling Skylake-X Direct Die Frame for 69.90€
Delidding has become commonplace activity for Intel processors over the last few generations. This is due to the OC performance limiting properties of the integreated heatspreader (IHS) with Intel’s stock thermal interface material (TIM). Many enthusiasts resort to removing the lid, replacing the TIM with a higher quality material then…
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AMD Ryzen 7 CPU Delidded – What’s Underneath?
Since the adoption of the Integrated Heat Spreader, the CPU die had always been soldered to its protective cover. This changed when Intel introduced the use of thermal paste in lieu of solder, citing concerns about cracking. AMD however, has generally stuck to the use of solder, especially for their…
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Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake Delidding Analysis
Introduction Intel has been utilising poor quality thermal interface material since the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture which increases the thermal values and restricts the overclocking headroom. Modern CPUs are engineered with the silicon die being cooled through a pre-applied integrated heatsink and conductive thermal layer. This method is used because the die emits…
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Checkout the Rockit 88 Intel CPU Delid Tool
Even though manufacturers don’t recommend delidding your CPU, there are quite a few overclockers out there that are using this method in order to improve overall thermal performance. Users are still debating whether this practice is actually worth it or not, but it looks like a company named Rockit Cool has created…
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MSI Develops CPU GUARD 1151 to Protect Your Skylake CPU
Intel’s Skylake CPU brought a lot of joys to users since it was released, but it also brought along some trouble. We first found out about the inferior TIM used which made people delid their CPUs and it even lead to the development of the Delid-Die-Mate hardware with the one…
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der8auer Delid Die Mate Coming Soon to Caseking
Today der8auer unveiled his newest device for overclocking, the Delid Die Guard. The device makes removing the lids of CPUs so easy that even my mother could do it. The preferred method of the past has been the vice method for removing lids and unfortunately with the new Skylake CPUs the PCB…
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6 New Boards On The Horizon From MSI for Intel’s 5th Gen Chipset
Over the last few weeks we have been hearing some interesting information come to light regarding Intel’s 5th Generation chipset and its Haswell Refresh processors and with a launch date of 11th May only a matter of weeks away now, we are starting to see snippets of information come through…
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MSI Z97 XPower AC Motherboard Supports Delid Haswell CPU
With recent generations of CPU’s suffering from low quality TIM between the heatspreader and the CPU die, many enthusiasts have been using delid CPU’s, in which they’ve removed the protective cover to either swap out the TIM for something better, or to use the CPU without its protective lid. Applying…
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