A PC fanatic known as Insanity (opens in new tab) has put an AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D beneath the knife. He efficiently carried out a fragile operation to take away the built-in warmth spreader (IHS) with out killing the chip – a process well-liked with the overclocking neighborhood dubbed delidding. After some prodding (opens in new tab) by the {Hardware} Luxx editor, Andreas Schilling, Insanity shared some thrilling take a look at outcomes, evaluating key CPU efficiency stats when gaming earlier than and after the delid operation. The delidded Ryzen 7 5800X3D ran quicker, consumed much less energy, and ran 10 levels Celsius cooler in the identical system when taxed by enjoying Forza Horizon 5.
The Ryzen 7 5800X3D with its IHS eliminated smiles alongside some telltale however unsophisticated instruments – sharp knife blades. The Twitter person used the blades to pry up the perimeters of the IHS whereas concurrently making use of between 150 to 200 levels Celsius by way of a warmth gun. With earlier gen processors, this course of is considerably nerve-wracking. Nonetheless, the 5800X3D provides a layer of jeopardy by positioning a large number of floor mount parts between the IHS ‘legs’. These could be all too straightforward to by chance knife throughout the delidding. Extra established CPU designs might be delidded with much less danger.
After delidding, an fanatic would possibly exchange the manufacturing unit TIM (thermal interface materials) with one thing like a liquid steel compound or run the chip ‘bare’ with the chance of direct cooler contact on the silicon. As an alternative, Insanity has adopted as much as say that they added Conductonaut compound to the dies and changed the IHS.
Finally, the outcomes of delidding are extra essential than the method, and Insanity achieved a formidable end result. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D ran 10 levels Celsius cooler beneath heavy workloads after the operation. It is not the one profit; the 3D V-cache chip additionally confirmed improved energy consumption and higher increase clocks.
The {Hardware} Luxx editor managed to get one other (opens in new tab) thrilling picture from Insanity. The {photograph} revealed a vacant second pad space within the 5800X3D with a sliver of protecting materials lifted off. It is not regular for a single CCD Ryzen to have a second pad like this.
AMD’s Zen 4 CPUs will arrive later this yr, and the 3D V-cache variations will observe with solely a tiny timing hole.