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AMD Impresses Again With High Quality Solder; No Need To Delid Ryzen As Done With Some Intel CPUs

Delidding gives overclockers a fair idea of the thermal solution applied to the chips to ensure that it will not overly heat as seen in the Haswell Core i7 and i5 CPUs. It was actually Intel's Haswell that made delidding a common and popular practice as overclockers often replace the thermal compound used with a superior quality one. Intel's chips overly heat because of cost-cutting measures where Intel skipped soldering the IHS onto the die and opted for just a thermal compound. Intel still employs the same practice requiring delidding of some of its Haswell and Skylake chips.