direct die cooling

Ncore V1 No Frame Water Block Prototype Testing The Ncore V1 is a prototype CPU water block for custom built PC cooling loops. It has a couple of big draws when it comes to enthusiast features, namely it is a direct-die cooler, and the other feature is that no mounting hardware is required. We...

This device certainly harkens back to the days of using frames on our fragile AMD Thunderbird CPUs, before Integrated Heat Spreaders IHS) were a thing. As you might know, overclocking and cooling even the "lesser" Skylake-X CPUs is not a walk in the park. So this Direct Die Frame would likely...