Delidding Intel CPUs is a somewhat dangerous task with meager benefits for most users. Traditionally, the process required pliers, a vise, a blade, a little sweat, and no small measure of skill. It doesn’t have to be that way, though. We previoulsy reported on Rockit 88’s Haswell and Skylake delidding tool a few months ago, and now YouImagine user Chri has uploaded a 3D-printable design for a Kaby Lake delidding tool.
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Delidding CPUs has become a popular past-time among competitive overclockers and people who just can’t leave a working CPU alone, ever since Intel stopped soldering the integrated heat spreaders (IHS) to the dies on its consumer-grade CPUs. Desktop chips after the second-generation Core Sandy Bridge models have come with thermal paste filling the gap between the ceramic CPU die and the aluminum IHS.
