If I still had my 2015 I would have applied some liquid metal TIM by now, I did a paste refresh and that worked very well to get the fan under control.
The point is parts of the CPU have to be off or throttled down when other components are under load to maintain TDP, adding cache that would almost certainly be being used defeats the point of that.
Doesn't SRAM have much lower power density than logic with the same area though? Hence why AMD can get away with physically stacking cache on top of more cache in their X3D parts, without the bottom layer melting.
Yes, cache has a much lower power density and could have been a candidate for that space.
But I wasn’t on the design team and have no basis for second-guessing them. I’m just saying that cramming more performance CPU cores onto this die isn’t a realistic option.
The SRAM that AMD is stacking also has the benefit of being last-level cache, so it doesn't need to run at anywhere near the frequency and voltage that eg. L1 cache operates at.
I was rotating the carbides on a wood planer and a couple of them were held in by machine screws that weren't budging. I called Byrd, and their recommendation once you've stripped the screws is to shatter the inserts. I put a crappy chisel underneath and whacked it with a hammer.
I can confirm that it works. I heartily recommend a face shield, and I wouldn't want to be the first guy the doctor had to break a ring off of.