After years of outrageous power levels, self-destructing chips, and underwhelming laptop options, Intel's pair of Arrow Lake Refresh processors—the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus and Core Ultra 7 270K Plus—are so good that almost all of Team Blue's recent failings can be forgiven. And in the case of the 270K Plus, it's received one more special 'award': it can now be picked up as a delidded option from Thermal Grizzly.
The process of removing the IHS or integrated heat spreader from a CPU (aka delidding) isn't something that most PC users would consider. Partly because you need specialised hardware to do this, and there's a distinct risk of permanently damaging the chip in doing so, but it's mostly because there's no major advantage in doing so when using the processor in stock form.
