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 ...
June 9, 2022 at 7:56 am by Mike Sanders
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 ...
January 22, 2018 at 4:14 pm by Ron Perillo
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 ...
March 1, 2017 at 11:51 pm by Samuel Wan
Introduction Intel has been utilising poor quality thermal interface material since the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture which increases the thermal values and restricts the ...
December 30, 2016 at 3:25 pm by John Williamson
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 ...
April 12, 2016 at 9:00 pm by Cernescu Andrei
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 ...
December 16, 2015 at 9:29 am by Bohs Hansen
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 ...
November 11, 2015 at 6:25 pm by Ryan Leiserowitz
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 ...
April 15, 2014 at 5:45 pm by Chris Hadley
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 ...
April 11, 2014 at 9:43 am by Peter Donnell
