We mentioned in our reviews that you should not delid AMD Ryzen processors for the sheer fact that even the heatspreader has sensors and that it is soldered. Next to that AMD did the cooling part ...

The new AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor was delidded by "@Madness7771" and said that when cooled with his Noctua ND-D14 cooler, the delidded Ryzen 7 5800X3D chip was running cooler, saying "it doesn't ...

TL;DR: AMD's new Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor with 3D V-Cache technology is set to be the fastest gaming CPU, offering a 16% IPC increase, 96MB L3 cache, and support for DDR5 memory, all on the Zen 5 ...

Popular German overclocker der8auer delided a Ryzen 7 8700G to see what untapped performance could be squeezed out of AMD’s latest Zen 4 APU. He found that delidding the chip and replacing the stock ...

So before you go like huh wait a minute, didn't Ryzen have a soldered heat spreader on the die that cannot be removed? Yes, you are right, but of course, you can melt the Indium solderm as when it ...

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Delidding is the process of removing a CPU’s integrated heatspreader to reduce thermal loads and achieve higher overclocks. Unless you’re a professional overclocker, this isn’t recommended and will ...

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 ...

AMD's Threadripper has a surprise underneath its IHS -- and we're just not referring to the company's decision to use solder instead of thermal paste. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share ...

Vendors hawking new Threadripper systems include the likes of; CyberPowerPC, Dell / Alienware, iBuyPower, and Velocity Micro. Several of these brands won't appear this side of the Atlantic, however ...

In the HEXUS review of the AMD Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G we managed to get an extra 10 per cent or so of computational performance out of these chips without increasing voltages. However, the ...

One of AMD's recently released Ryzen 2000 series CPUs, codename Pinnacle Ridge, has had its top taken off by Der8auer showing that these are still soldered to the IHS and that such a process is simply ...