Ryzen 9 9950X3D Delidded With Clothes Iron And Fishing Line Flirts With 6GHz

Back when AMD’s Ryzen 7000 processors first came out, enthusiasts theorized that the extra-thick heatspreader used on Socket AM5 CPUs—required to maintain AMD heatsink compatibility that extends all the way back to Socket AM2—would harm cooling performance. Enthusiasts quickly popped the top on some AMD chips and found that, yeah, it does.


