including an aluminum heat spreader built into the case, which would be the target of the mod. He attached a custom copper heatsink to a section of the heat spreader, which had been carefully ...

Package heat spreaders can offer a variety of benefits such as protection of the silicon, warpage management, increased reliability, and thermal enhancement, however, there are tradeoffs for every ...

Yes, that is precisely what enthusiastic overclockers have been doing for years, delidding, or decapping (though the latter term is used less often in overclocking circles), chips through various DIY ...