AMD this week launched their Ryzen 2000G series of APUs. Guru3D yesterday reported that the APUs have thermal paste in-between the die and heatspreader, opposed to being soldered. Four cores don’t run that hot, but since it has thermal insulation paste applied, it can be delidded to to gain lower temperatures.
Overclocker der8auer took it upon himself to grab a Ryzen 5 2400G and delid it. He then replaced the thermal paste and temperature tested the unit with before and after results. To delid the new AMD Ryzen G APUs series, the existing Delid Die Mate 2 (DDM2), originally designed for Intel IHS removal could be used.
Once he successfully delidded the APU he didn’t go for direct die cooling, instead, he applied Grizzly Kryonaut + Conductonaut compounds, placed back the APU and heatspreader and continued his test runs. The charts below show the temperature gains at stock clocks and when overclocked to 3975MHz. Further overclocking at the same voltage was only stable to 4000MHz, 25MHz faster, not anything significant. In our review, we reached 3.9 GHz on the stock air cooler.
Temperature difference at stock clocks
Temperature difference at when overclocked clocks at 3975 MHz
In the end he concludes that delidding can be beneficial for HTPC systems, which benefit from a small air cooler in a more compact chassis and this space. der8auer is marketing these Delid Die Mate units and sells delidded processors at Caseking, where he earns his money this way.
