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After wussing out on following through with the delidding of my i7-7800x (socket 2066), Saturday night I pulled out the delid tool that has sat in my desk drawer since August, and I gave it a go. I was nervous and very careful. I read several of the guides that I'd found online, and watched a...

Prolific overclocker der8auer got his hands on an Intel W-3175x before yesterday's official launch, and delidded it for the world to see. The YouTuber mentions that he didn't even know the platform's price tag at the time, but was fairly certain it was the most expensive CPU he ever delidded. He...

Rockit Cool Rockit 88 Delid and Relid Tool Every since Intel decided to start once again using a thermal interface material in its enthusiast CPUs, we have been looking for better ways to remove the Integrated Heat Spreader (IHS). Rockit Cool has what we consider to be the best tool we have...

Overclocking the Intel 8600K - Delidded on Air and Water We've gotten to spend some quality time with our Intel Core i5-8600K Coffee Lake CPU, and of course we have spent our time finding out just how far we could push the processor's clock under both Air Cooling and Water Cooling. We relid and...

It's so pretty... let's mess with it! Power down... Drain the loop... Pull some pipes... y'know, I've heard it said that rigid tubing makes this kind of thing a pain, but I actually kinda prefer tearing down a rigid setup. Oh no! That i5 is trapped, and filthy! There we go, all clean and...

There was a previous Delid video. The one that fooled some of us (me) into thinking it was a dual die chip. This is the followup, where he scrapes off the solder and cleans up the die (makes it very clear that it is a single die), applies liquid metal thermal paste, and does a direct die test...

Relid Your Intel CPU on the Cheap with no Delid Tools - So we have covered a lot about taking your shiny new Intel CPUs apart lately, affectionately known as "delidding." What we have found in our journey is that "relidding" the processor might be an important part of the process as well. But...

Intel Kaby Lake i5-7600K CPU Re-Lid Overclocking Results - We have spent a couple of weeks tweaking the Core i5-7600K processor that we bought in retail after pulling the Integrated Heat Spreader and replacing the Thermal Interface Material with CoolLaboratory Liquid Ultra. Many of you wanted...

3D Print Your Own Intel Delid Tool for Skylake & Kaby Lake - A lot of us have come to find out recently that Intel once again skimped on the Thermal Interface Material inside these processors' Integrated Heat Spreaders. You can fix that issue however, and now there are some ways to do it...

Intel Kaby Lake i5-7600K CPU De-Lid & Re-Lid Temp Results - We got in our retail purchased Intel Core i5-7600K Kaby Lake architecture processor and of course the first thing we wanted to do was overclock it to 5GHz, and then very quickly remove the Integrated Heat Spreader and see how much...

This was posted over on the 3D Center Forums. The post points to an "Intel Kaby Lake delid tool" design that can be implemented on a 3D printer. A simple delid tool that for chopping Intel Kabylake and Skylake CPU The author of the design does not have a 3D printer to try it out and test on...

Intel Kaby Lake i7-7700K CPU Overclocking Follow-up - Last week we shared our overclocking results with our retail purchased Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake processor. We then took the Integrated Heat Spreader off, replaced the Thermal Interface Material and tried again for 5GHz with 3600MHz memory...

Intel Kaby Lake i7-7700K CPU De-Lid & Re-Lid Results - Is there any reason at all to take a razor blade, garage workbench vice, or any sort of other tool to your brand new Kaby Lake CPU? Of course there is. That reason being that the Thermal Interface Material used by Intel on its desktop CPUs...

Just got in our first retail 7700K for overclocking testing and delidding this week when our Delid tool comes in from Overclockers UK. https://www.overclockers.co.uk/der8auer-delid-die-mate-hs-000-dr.html

3770k runs at 4.8 stable @ 1.39v. Has Cool Laboratory Liquid Pro (Not Ultra) on die & IHS. Cleaning IHS will be left to the buyer unless asked. Samsung memory is 4x4GB, can run stable at 1866 or 2000mhz, depending on the timings. $320 for whole kit. Not currently looking to part out. PM...

Rockit 88 - Intel CPU Delid Tool World's safest CPU delid tool. Delid your CPU with complete confidence. Works on Haswell, Devil's Canyon, Skylake and more. It only had a goal of $600 which was quickly met. Looks like he will probably sell them for $35 USD based on the reward tiers. The...