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, a well-known name in the overclocking and hardware enthusiast crowd, has now started to offer delidded CPUs that even come with a warranty. Called the TG Delidded CPU, enthusiasts can ...

TL;DR: Thermal Grizzly offers delidded AMD Ryzen 9 9800X3D processors, optimized for higher overclocking with exotic cooling. Delidding removes the heat spreader, enhancing cooling but voiding ...

Content creator and extreme overclocker Tony Yu recently attempted to delid one of AMD's new Ryzen 9000 processors, aiming to explore its internal structure and improve cooling performance.

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Overclocking specialist Roman Hartung recently undertook a delidding exercise on the Intel Core i9-14900K processor using liquid metal thermal paste to optimize thermal conductivity. The goal was to ...

With the arrival of the first Ryzen 9 processors in 2019, AMD expanded its ability to rival the performance of competing Core i7 and Core i9 chips from Intel. If you're in the market for the ultimate ...

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