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The SAFEST Way to Delid Your Intel 13900K CPU | EKWB Direct Die Liquid Cooling

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In this video, we take a look at how to delid the Intel 13900K CPU with the EK delidding tool, which was made in collaboration with renowned overclocker Der8auer.

Delidding is the process of removing the integrated heat spreader (IHS) from the CPU die, to improve cooling performance and overclocking ability. EK focused on the tool’s safety features to minimize the risk of users damaging their valuable 12th and 13th-gen Intel® CPUs.

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Delidding entails a very risky modification of the CPU and may, even when adequately performed, result in damage to the processing unit.

EKWB will not assume any responsibility or liability for damages to the CPU inflicted during or as a consequence of delidding. All liability for damages to the CPU is disclaimed. You do it at your own risk.

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  8. This is for people ocd about the temps, if you didn’t want high temps you shouldn’t have bought a 13900k, and if you bought it for gaming you deff don’t know what you’re doing

  10. so you made a tool to delid the cpu, but have to use thread and plunger to delid. EK did a poor job here, even their direct die velocity 2 waterblock is also not good enough. iceman cooler or supercool computer direct die is much better.

  11. I want to say thank you for doing a video of your product. I wish more companies would take the time to do things like this, but I have to say. You know we dont have no 70 degree oven LoL! I wish you would of just used a heat gun which is more accessible to the general population.

  13. a video actually helping your customers delid their $500 dollar cpu……

    ya'll some real ones ❤ I'm gettin an EKWB cpu block right after I finish delidding my cpu 🤣

  16. there are lots of reports of problems with the delidder – stripping of the screw threads/simply not being able to remove the IHS with the default method used. this seems to be compounded with the 13900ks which seems to have stronger soldering. can EK comment if there will be a revision to this tool? fwiw I have bought this tool and the delid block, but after hearing all the horror stories on OCN it has been sitting on my desk unused since March.

  18. Man 85 bucks for a delid tool is kinda nuts, is there not another option? also is it worth it to just delid, contact plate and liquid metal, only lapping IHS (no direct die)?

  19. Over a good month later I am still wating for the ordered tool … and their official responses to the store (from Holland) I have ordered it through are all over the place … practically asking for one more month of patience … really dissapointed and I am most probably canceling the order after I write this comment here …
    If I was to wait for a month or as it looks like 2 … i could have ordered the rockitcool one from the US and already have it delivered in EU and done my job … it looks like sending samples to known Youtubers is a priority instead of fullfiling their orders

  21. I followed these instructions exactly and my die came apart with the IHS when trying to separate it from the PCB. $750 i9-13900KS in the trash bin. EKWB you need to do the right thing here and recall this garbage of a product IMMEDIATELY. The delid tool doesn't move the IHS far enough in either direction to have a complete separation from the die. That's why you need to keep rotating the cpu back and forth in the tool a hundred times in the first place. It is a really bad design and should have never gotten to market. What other delid kit comes with dental floss and a plastic lever to pry your IHS off? None, because rocket-cool and der8uer delidders completely sucessfully separate the IHS in one move. This one does not. I am not the first to have this happen and I'm not going to be the last but if I save ONE person from using this garbage then it will be worth it. There are videos of JayZtwoCents and KitGuru using this tool. They both stop mid removal when they realize this piece of junk is going to destroy their cpu and switch to a Rocket-Cool delid kit to complete the process. There are many reviews on Overclock forums where users have damaged their cpu's with this kit. DO NOT BUY or USE. EKWB PLEASE RECALL THIS DELID TOOL.

  22. I would like to add that heating up the CPU makes it even more difficult to delidden the CPU. I think that cooling down to 0 – 5 degrees is better. Thus, the glue and the indium are harder – have a shorter break-off point. When heated, on the other hand, everything is more viscous and difficult to separate.

  29. This is not right guys, your product manual does not reflects any of the steps shown on this video. More over you launched this video several weeks after we received our product.

    Honestly I am really disappointed with this.

  30. I love how this vid came out after you sent these kits to all the youtubers and they made vids. Linus fucked everything up and thought the liquid metal was for thermal application and never used it to clean off the die. Jay about broke his cpu cause no one was flipping the cpu around and using side 2. What an epic fail for them. So sad to see people like that get blessed with free stuff and completely screw everything up.

  33. Very cool Video! EK, you make the coolest products out there!❤‍🔥🔥 But please, please please please…. a Monoblock for the ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E Extreme would be sooooo freaking awesome!🙏

  37. what difference in temp between vector 2 regular contact compared to direct contact of cpu????????????????????????????????????????????
    it should show same temperature Range on any cpu