A few days ago the well-known overclocker der8auer has delidded AMD's latest Ryzen CPU. After having run several benchmarks he concluded that delidding offers no meaningful temperature decreases or overclocking benefits at least when using a traditional CPU coolers.

A couple of days ago, Roman "der8auer" Hartung has shown how AMD sticks the heatspreader to their Ryzen CPUs and what's exactly sitting on top of the die ensuring an efficient heat transfer. Despite the fact that the heat spreader has been soldered to the Die, der8auer has managed to remove the IHS. Once it has been removed the PCB becomes visible, which is home to several resistors and capacitors. In addition the PCB is quite thick and pretty hard to bend.

According to the data der8auer collected, delidding the CPU isn't worth it at all. The thermal differences after the delidding process is 4 degrees on average. These improvements too little and certainly not worth the risks involved when delidding CPU with a soldered heat spreader. The issue in this case is that it's very easy damage to damage or even kill the CPU unless the delidding exceptionally carefully.

In other words, AMD users should not try this at home since the benefits are simply not worth risking a 300 Euro CPU.



Source: Youtube