Content creator and extreme overclocker Tony Yu had the rare privilege of being one of (if not the) first people to delid one of AMD's brand new Ryzen 9000 processors, which will contend with the ...

Parts of the cracked die were found on the IHS as well as on the chip itself, showing just how big the mistake was for Tony. The first Ryzen 9000 series CPU delidded, and the first one to die ...

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 ...

If this were a movie, we’d be laughing at the improbability of the premise — that encryption can be cracked by listening to the high-pitched sounds produced by a computer’s CPU as it decrypts data.

Upon further investigation, including the removal of the heatspreader, they discovered the complete lack of an actual CPU die – there wasn't even a fake die or blank slice of silicon.

What just happened? Renowned overclocker der8auer has developed a custom direct-die water block for AMD's Ryzen 7000 series CPUs that can significantly lower operating temperatures under load and ...

The deep dive interview uncovered insights into compromises in die thinning, the thermal interface material (TIM) under the CPU heatspreader, CPU temperatures, and the pros and cons of Liquid Metal.

Direct-die cooling has always been the holy grail of CPU cooling. By removing a CPU's integrated heat spreader (IHS), a cooler's cold plate can make direct contact with the CPU die(s), allowing ...