As for the current AM5 socket, AMD officially announced that it was extending its support to at least 2029—it was originally ...

Austrian cooling specialist Noctua has teamed up with overclocking professional Roman 'der8auer' Hartung to create the new NM-DD1 direct die kit. It is claimed that delidding your Socket AM5 CPU and ...

What just happened? Renowned overclocker der8auer has developed a custom direct-die water block for AMD's Ryzen 7000 series CPUs that can significantly lower operating temperatures under load and ...

Direct-die cooling has always been the holy grail of CPU cooling. By removing a CPU's integrated heat spreader (IHS), a cooler's cold plate can make direct contact with the CPU die(s), allowing for a ...

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It's just a pet project, I'm told.

The decade-old socket is still the smartest upgrade path, and that's a problem ...

Thermal Grizzly has introduced the DeltaMate MPII CPU water block series for custom liquid cooling systems. The new blocks ...

When AMD formally revealed Socket AM5 for its next few generations of desktop processors, it made the bold statement that CPU coolers for Socket AM4 would be compatible with the new socket. By now, we ...

With AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 processors set for launch on August 29th, we’ve already seen a number of manufacturers confirm compatibility for the new upcoming AM5 socket. In fact, by and large, it does ...