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 ...

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 ...

Kickstarter is home to some of the wildest and ingenious ideas in tech, with Nudecnc's Ncore V1-naked die cooling water block standing out among all the potential suitors for your funding. This ...

Delidding a CPU is supposed to be the last word in CPU cooling. Removing the IHS and exposing the CPU die to either replace the TIM between the die and the IHS, or resort to direct-die cooling, is the ...

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Bottom line: Enthusiasts have been delidding and lapping processors for years in an effort to squeeze every last bit of performance out of their hardware. Doing so is a risky proposition but it can ...

Editor's take: Delidding is not for the faint of heart, nor is it for those that can't afford to replace their CPU. For starters, it'll void your warranty and if something goes wrong, it'll be up to ...

Professional overclocker and serial delidder, De8auer, has taken his chip-cracking skills to the new AMD Ryzen 2 processors... and found there's not really any point to risking the mechanical death of ...

Intel's Core i9-10900K is a beastly processor that flexes 10 physical CPU cores and 20 threads clocked at 3.7GHz to 5.3GHz, along with 20MB of Smart Cache, all wrapped in a package with a 125W TDP.

Three new AMD desktop processors for enthusiasts are now out: The Ryzen 7 1800X, the 1700X, and the 1700. In a performance-versus-price scenario, the chips are rather cheap compared to Intel-based ...