Why you shouldn't decap CPU

someone didnt read the instructions of their delidding tool

When the pads get ripped off a ceramic capacitor, the parallel plates (metalic layers) get exposed. Had he re-used the broken part, there was a good chance the plates would have shorted together when soldered - shorting out the supply voltage. Smooth move replacing the part.

Did my 12900K and 14900K just fine with the Debaur kit. Gotta pay attention

The process is otherwise known as deliding and basically point is to remove heatspreader in order to do direct to die cooling, usually combined with liquid metal. Which drops temperatures and allows higher overclocking. Also it really got popular when intel replaced solder between heatspreader and die with regular TIM, that wasn't as good at thermal conductivity. Enthusiasts often would delid to apply liquid metal between CPU and heatspreader. Once Intel returned to solder, because they had hard time competing with AMD and had to push their CPUs hard, so they ran hot, procedure is less beneficial, unless you do direct to die cooling, replacing heatspreader with waterblock that is designed for direct to die cooling. Of course procedure never was without risks, from knocking components, to escaping liquid metal, especially with madlads who did it to laptops, bump it and there goes liquid metal all over the place. Also with direct to die cooling you always risk to apply too much pressure and crack the die itself. And of course, if you want real literal decapitation, check failures with soldered CPUs, where people fail to deal with solder and just rip upper part of die off. But people do it because benefits are 10C+ lower temperatures, depending on CPU. Also if you want even more extreme, it is die lapping, where you carefully remove top layer of die to get even closer to die cooling than deliding, with hopefully not lapping off necessary parts. Though this is definitely going to shorten CPUs life, since top layers are there for protection too, I think some sort of leakage happens over time if protective layer of die is lapped. But you can absolutely max out those overclocks, especially with involvement of LN2 for cooling. But yeah, I rather do none of these, because I do prefer my hardware to live long and happy life, even if that means I get 10 less FPS in some games. :-D

I did it once with my 7700k I used a high quality delid tool (DDM2). Then I applied the perfect amount of liquid metal and it ran 5 years flawlessly until I sold it. When I do something like this, I take my time and do it carefully. It was worth it btw, the temps dropped by 10°C in idle and 30°C on full load. But that was on a CPU that had paste under the IHS, unlike now.

I am amazed at what u can do. Hope I never need a gpu repair man, but if I do, I definitely know where to go. Thanks again for showing us your skills. Truly amazing

Did deliding myself with sandy and ivy bridge cpus. Key to deliding is, research, how does the cpu look underneath the heatspreader, already ppl that delided, any info about the TIM. Then decide, start with a razor like blade or with tooth silk. No other deliding contraptions required, take your time while working around with tooth silk or razor. Doesn't matter if progress rivals tectonic plate drift, if you manage to wiggle your way around the heatspreader without scratching, breaking, dropping or knocking of components, you're golden.

Thaking in account that those small caps have about 20% tolerance, the 8.5uF was still in spec. Given the damage on the cap, I would replace it anyway. Thanks for the entertainment.

Nice. Always good to watch your soldering skills.

"Why buy delidding tool, if a pipe wrench does the trick!"

very neat repair as usual!

vey nice work master 👌

Awesome video

Good work :)

Good work 💯👏

I remember relocating surface mount components on the old slot A Athlons, and that was how you would Overclock them. This really took me back.

I used one of those replacement socket mounts instead it gave about the same temperature reduction.

Well a different and easier fix than usual, hopefully it brings enough money

Nice and easy for once!

wow northridgefix fixed the same cap yesterday 😅