A product has been launched to facilitate direct die cooling on the Intel Skylake-X Socket 2066 platform. The new der8auer Skylake-X Direct Die Frame (or SK-X DDF for short) completely replaces ...

Overclocking of a Skylake-X processor is not a simple task due to the inefficient thermal-interface material (TIM) being used instead of solder, (which offers much better thermal performance). Roman ...

Noted overclocker Roman 'der8auer' Hartung has officially launched his latest product aimed at the overclocking community: the Skylake-X Direct Die Frame, designed to protect delidded CPUs while ...

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 ...