Sushant S. Bhosale

How I built my first Hackintosh

I built a Hackintosh recently. I already use a MacBook pro 13 at home but taking on a good weekend project like Hackintosh was exciting. I was leaning towards the Ryzen 2 before, but considering there is more support for Intel based setup in the Hackintosh community, I preferred going

Delid Intel Coffee Lake i7 8700K

Today I am going to try to delid an Intel Coffee Lake i7 8700K processor. I wanted to see if I can push the 8700k to 5GHz+ but turns out the core temperature rises a lot with the stock processor. Delidding will drop the core temperatures by about 25'

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