RockItCool Offering Pure Copper IHS Upgrades for Intel, AMD CPUs

RockitCoolis a new entrant towards the deliding and IHS replacement game, and the company is offering new delid kits that allow users to replace the Integrated Heatspreader (IHS) on their CPUs in an attempt to achieve better operating temperatures – and potentially improve performance. Considered by some to be one of the most daring quests towards extracting the most performance possible from a given chip, the deliding process is, however, not without its dangers, and will void CPU warranties irrespective of the tool – or care – employed in the operation.

RockItCool’s website sprung up earlier this year, and the website doesn’t count with many user reviews – but those that are there seem to be glowing. The company specializes in providing complete delid and pure-copper IHS replacement kits, taking advantage of copper’s higher thermal conductivity as a way to increase the amount of heat that can be pulled away from the CPU – improving its operating temperatures and power profiles. The copper IHS themselves have guidance markings to ease concerns regarding the application of liquid metal itself, which is a particularly risky substance to misapply around electrical circuitry.

The company claims to have achieved an up to 15º C improvement in operating temperatures for Intel’s latest Alder Lake Core i9-12900K, dropping them from around 85° C in full load to 70º C after the IHS replacement (and liquid metal TIM [Thermal Interface Material] upgrade). Those numbers by themselves sound a little bit too good to be true; our coverage of previous delid efforts (some of them led by overclocking legend Der8auer)showcased much minor improvements.

While the latest and greatest processors from both AMD and Intel will always be the most sought-after for aftermarket improvements such as these, the company is also selling kits stretching back all the way to Intel’s sixth generation Core designs (Skylake). Just remember – the process is not without its risks.