Old news, but some may not be aware of this.....

[AMDGuy]

I pryed the aluminum cover off a dead K62-550 last night and took some pics. Some people may still be running these chips. If you pull the cover off (takes a little muscle and a big screwdriver) it'll look similar to a Duron or T-bird. If you then carefully attach a HSF to that it should drop temps. THIS IS TOTALLY UNTESTED BY ME AND IS ONLY THEORY. Be careful mounting your cooling device or you might crush the core just like with Durons and T-birds.

To get the cover off put a flat head screwdriver under each corner and pry it off. The epoxy is at each corner and once popped loose the cover comes right off.

It seems to me that the aluminum sheild would hold in quite a bit of heat. Attached is the pic.

[Trinity]

Wow, that is pretty interesting. I never though about the k6-2. That is probably why they got rid of the cover. I hope all goes well with the chip. Have you o'ced it?

[AMDGuy]

Trinity (Jul 09, 2001 08:34 p.m.):
Wow, that is pretty interesting. I never though about the k6-2. That is probably why they got rid of the cover. I hope all goes well with the chip. Have you o'ced it?

Note my post says it's a "DEAD" K62. My system is now a Duron 650 @ 1000.

I was just showing this for those still running K62s. It might help with heat.

[SickBoy]

I've known about this trick for a while...... I **THINK** I remember hearing someone say that you need to lightly lap the core if there's any glue on it. I might try it on my K6-2 this fall when I build it up again to use as the proxy server for my house's DSL connection.

SickBoy

[wild_andy_c]

I tried this and had my late K6-3 400 at 525Mhz (5 *105Mhz) with an Alpha.

What needs to be remembered though is that it exposes the delicate core, and with poor cooling mediums - removes the heat spreading effect (that is what the cap is - a heat spreader)

[AMDGuy]

[oc]SickBoy (Jul 10, 2001 01:08 p.m.):
I've known about this trick for a while...... I **THINK** I remember hearing someone say that you need to lightly lap the core if there's any glue on it. I might try it on my K6-2 this fall when I build it up again to use as the proxy server for my house's DSL connection.

SickBoy


If I were you I'd pass on the proxy server. I had one running and had a lot of problems with secure sites and some FTP sites.

I'd go with a router. Much easier to hook up and configure and it's faster as well. I went with the Netgear RT311 as I already had a Netgear switch for my network. If you don't have a switch go with the Netgear RT314. These are both excellent products, and on top of that Best Buy has them both onsale for cheap. I saw the RT311 today at Best Buy (on my lunch break) for $79.99. It's normally $119.00.

[Superman53142]

I bought the RT314 router about 2 weeks ago for $94 with a $20 mail-in-rebate and free shipping from buy.com. I had the router and my network set up in 5 minutes. Note: I just installed Linux on one of my machines, however, and Linux to Windows networking just doesn't seem to work for me. Windows to Windows via NetBEUI works excellently, though.

[Rob Cork]

Sounds like a neat idea. You'd have to come up with your own clip for the hsf, as the core will be lower without the heat spreader. I doubt removing it would be a problem from the point of view of temps - it might as well be part of the heatsink's base, only the thermal conductivity between it and the hsf will be less than perfect. I'd have thought removing it would help temps if anything - maybe someone could try on a working K6-2 and see. Andy, you said you'd done this but didn't mention how effective it was... ?