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Intel Core i9-9900K Delidded and Soldered

Intel Core i9-9900K Shows Return to Solder Back in 2012, Intel started a love affair with thermal paste. After a long-standing relationship with solder, the chip giant ...

September 7, 2018 at 8:12 am by

Intel Returns to Soldered IHS for 9th Gen Core CPUs

Intel May End 6 Year Hiatus From Solder Overclocking has always been the go-to method to increase CPU performance. One of the biggest inhibitors of a high clock rate has ...

August 17, 2018 at 8:57 am by

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 ...

March 1, 2017 at 11:51 pm by

Solderdoodle, a USB Rechargeable Wireless Soldering Iron

It seems I have to crack out my dusty old soldering iron less and less these days, but the one thing that really bugs me about having to use it is that it has to be plugged ...

July 22, 2014 at 9:42 am by

Forget the T-800, MIT and Google’s Boston Dynamics Are Said To Work on T-1000 Robots

There have been talk of future robots resembling the T-800 model from the Terminator series for some time now. Yet, no company has even arrived close to a design, yet alone a ...

July 14, 2014 at 5:42 pm by