Thermal Grizzly introduces the AM5 High Performance Heatspreader, an upgrade heatspreader for AMD's Ryzen 7000 processors. The heatspreader's diamond-milled precision surface made of nickel-plated copper offers 240 percent more surface area compared to the original heatspreader. As a result, the AM5 High Performance Heatspreader enables maximum heat dissipation with air and water coolers. Maximum heat dissipation due to increased surface area The AM5 High Performance Heatspreader replaces the Socket Actuation Mechanism (SAM) of the motherboard and the heatspreader of the Ryzen 7000 processor. Thus, the processor has to be delidded. This enables an optimal contact pressure of the CPu into the socket and massively increases the surface of the copper heatspreader. The contact surface is diamond milled and offers extremely low surface roughness for best contact to the heatsink. The AM5 High Performance heatspreader offers 240 percent more surface area than the standard heatspreader! In practice, 10 DegreeCelsius better temperatures can be achieved with the AM5 High Performance Heatspreader. In the test**, an AMD Ryzen 7900X (5.0 GHz, 1.3 vCore) is cooled with a 280 mm AiO. With the stock heatspreader, the maximum temperatures were about 90 DegreeCelsius. With the AM5 High Performance heatspreader, the temperatures were below 80 DegreeC. When the upgrade heatspreader was used in combination with the Thermal Grizzly AM5 Adapter & Offset Mounting Kit, the processor could be cooled down an additional 6 DegreeC. Technical data Material: copper, nickel plated Color: silver Length: 70 mm Width: 53 mm Total height: 6.0 mm Net weight: 103g Gross weight: 136g Height above CPu die: 2.0 mm Typical application: upgrade heatspreader withincreased surface area