After years of outrageous power levels, self-destructing chips, and underwhelming laptop options, Intel's pair of Arrow Lake Refresh processors—the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus and Core Ultra 7 270K Plus—are so good that almost all of Team Blue's recent failings can be forgiven. And in the case of the 270K Plus, it's received one more special 'award': it can now be picked up as a delidded option from Thermal Grizzly.
The process of removing the IHS or integrated heat spreader from a CPU (aka delidding) isn't something that most PC users would consider. Partly because you need specialised hardware to do this, and there's a distinct risk of permanently damaging the chip in doing so, but it's mostly because there's no major advantage in doing so when using the processor in stock form.
However, for the overclocking crowd, it's a bit of a must because allowing a cooler to have direct contact with the CPU die (or dies, in the case of AMD chips), can potentially get a serious red...
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