Rockit 88 CPU delidder tool pops the top on recent Intel chips
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Rockit Cool's Rockit 88 is a Kickstarter project that aims to make delidding-the practice of removing a CPU's integrated heat spreader, or IHS-easier. Delidding a CPU for extra cooling potential is a well-known but risky practice for extreme overclockers, since it usually involves pliers, a vise, and an X-Acto knife. A slip-up with any of these tools could harm the CPU. The Rockit 88 appears to work by holding Haswell and Skylake CPUs in a dedicated bracket and shearing off the IHS with a moving block. Rockit Cool claims that reducing the thickness of the thermal interface material between the processor die and the IHS on an unspecified, overclocked Devil's Canyon CPU resulted in a 10C improvement in load temperatures.
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