The Ryzen 7000 CPU reviews showed that these are very productive, but also very hot chips. For example, the 16-nuclear flag Ryzen 97950X heated up to 94–95 in the tests and 76 degrees Celsius in the games. However, at peak load, the processor can consume up to 247 W of power. It is possible to lower the operating temperature of the new AMD processors, but with a very risky scalping procedure.
The German enthusiast Roman Hartung, known as Der8auer, decided to see if the temperature situation would improve if Ryzen 979000X removed the heat distribution lid. The method proved to be effective but dangerous. The processor was successfully scalped and installed in Socket AM5 with a special frame instead of a standard fastening mechanism, which allowed the use of a conventional liquid cooling system with a "naked" CPU. A 360 mm radiator model was used.
The enthusiast recorded the frequency of all the Ryzen 97900X kernels by 5.4 GHz. The CPU temperature under load was only slightly higher than 70 degrees Celsius, while with the lid the temperature was 90 degrees. This difference was due to the large lid thickness. The additional advantage of scalping was that the energy consumption of the chip was reduced by about 15 W due to its lower temperatures. As a result, the enthusiast was able to disperse the processor across all the kernels by another 100 MHz, reaching a frequency of 5.5 GHz.
In order to remove the lid from the Deer8auer processor, he used a prototype special tool to scalptate by sliding. Later, a serial model of this tool should appear on the market. It should be noted that most users will not fit this temperature reduction method. First, it is risky. It is likely to damage the processor that Hartung showed at the end of the video. Second, it will deprive the owners of the processors of the manufacturer's guarantee.