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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.…