delidding

Was interested in getting a shot of the silicon underneath the heat spreaders, and potentially improving thermals, so I took a razor blade, an old credit card, and a huge leap of faith, and was able to pop both of them off and get a nice gander at the silicon. Admitted there is a bit of...

I wanted to document and discuss the delidding of the Wii's chips, since it doesn't seem like a very common thing to do right now and there isn't much info on it. The benefit is slightly better cooling, and this would be important for passively cooled systems. By delidding the cpu and gpu, you...