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> including de-lidding the cpu As far as I'm aware, laptop CPUs haven't been packaged with an integrated heat spreader at any time since the ultrabook category

• swozey 3y ago
  I don't remember exactly what I did but I had to pry apart a bunch of copper heatspreader tubes and things like that, and I have a circle of copper heat spreader material and other weird stuff I haven't needed on other computers, I may not have delidded it but it was a very harrowing job. I was actually, as far as I know according to reddit and wherever I was reading dell xps forum stuff the first person to take it apart and do it. I wrote a tutorial about it I THINK on reddit. IIRC I had to remove the entire main board from the chassis and stuff. edit: Oh, I found a 2022 post about here on HN. I guess I didn't de-lid it. I took pictures of everything for the tutorial but no idea where that'd be, reddits search for dell 13z is worthless. Wow I didn't have that laptop very long. I absolutely hated using it, I wouldn't even use it in bed, and I DID get it replaced at one point hoping it was a bad laptop. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31097858 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31097858 Narrator voice: He did buy the $3500 macbook in the end edit2: Tutorial https://old.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/vqz9wn/xps_13_2in1_9310_11th_gen_intel_thermal_repaste/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/vqz9wn/xps_13_2in1_93... This is giving me terrible flashbacks I even broke a few things, there were hidden screws holding board down you had to remove from the underside somehow or break everything when you lifted the board up. I had NO idea they were there and everything was super fragile.