YouTube tech creator and extreme overclocker der8auer shared a key tip for safely delidding Intel’s just-launched Core Ultra 200S (codenamed Arrow Lake) chips. According to his post on the overlock.net forums, you should heat the chip above 157 degrees Celsius to melt the indium and make delidding easier. They recommend a target temperature of 165 degrees Celsius, as heating too much could make the glue loose and damage some SMDs.
“If you try the EK delidder you have to be extremely careful not to remove any SMDs around the IHS. You have around 1.5-2mm of room. Now the problem is that you have to heat it up before delidding. This seems very important for Arrow Lake. I know of 2 cases where the CPU was attempted to delid without heat and both died. At the same time I know 10 cases of delidded CPUs with heat and they all still work,” said der8auer.
