Delidding your CPU: What it is and why you should do it

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Delidding a CPU can make it run much cooler, helping you quiet down your fans and improve performance. Here's why you should (or shouldn't) do it.

Delid ding 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 but — the temperature improvements, especially for CPU s that typically run hot, can be massive. The result is a processor that runs cooler, quieter, and often faster, too.

Related Delidding your CPU is the process of removing that integrated heat spreader so that you can have your cooler attach directly to the CPU die it’s trying to cool. Removing that additional layer of metal allows your cooler to work more effectively by drawing heat straight from the chip, rather than through its internal thermal interface material, then through the IHS, then through another layer of heat paste before finally reaching the cooler itself.

Once your CPU is as bare as the day it was manufactured, you can put some liquid metal thermal interface material on it, attach your cooler , and enjoy improved temperatures. Delidding is also much easier and safer today than it was in the past. Where you used to have to use a heat gun to loosen the glue on the IHS and carefully separate it with a razor blade, now you can just buy a dedicated tool for the job.

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