Did somebody tell Sony that we love screws? Because this steel plate is secured with a ton of screws. Um, thanks!

Underneath: a heat pipe for cooling a row of VRMs, connected to a baby fin stack. Looks like we're seeing the back of the main board here—all the really serious cooling hardware is mounted down below.

We may be approaching a point of no return, but let's un-mount the hardware and flip the board out.

Yep, that shiny stuff covering the processor is none other than mimetic polyalloy liquid metal, the king of high-performance thermal interface material.

But with that thermal conductivity comes some unwanted electrical conductivity—so you don't want it sloshing around in the wrong place.

Sony filed a patent for an insulated, foam-cushioned pouch that keeps their liquid metal confined to the surface of the chip ... as long as you don't do what we're doing here.