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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
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Andrew E. Freedman

Framework Desktop's Noctua fan and Cooler Master heatsink pried off, Strix Halo exposed

An image of the Strix Halo chip on the Framework Desktop mainboard.

When Framework debuted its Desktop earlier this week, most attendees of its San Francisco event didn't get to tear the machine all the way down to the studs. There's an exception, however: iFixit posted a full teardown of the 4.5L Mini-ITX machine, removing the cooler and showing off the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, also known as Strix Halo.

Teardown tech Shahram Mokhtari removed the four Phillips screws to free the large cooler (co-engineered by Framework, Cooler Master, and Noctua) to reveal the die shot everyone was waiting for. (You can see it around 8:38 in the embedded video).

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