Heatsink removal

z0n3

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• May 22, 2005

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I need to know different ways that I can take the heatsinks off of my mobo. I need to RMA it and I think that they consider heatsinks modding. I know some people put the board in the freezer or used canned air but are there any other ways?

 

dylskee

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• May 22, 2005

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How exactly did you mount your heatsinks, epoxy??

 

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z0n3

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Yeah the artic silver stuff. What really makes me mad is that I put them on a little over a week ago!

 

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• May 23, 2005

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Are you refering to arctic Silver 5? or one of their artic adheisive products? arctic silver 5 will cause a bond that's breakable by twisiting the HS before trying to remove it. However, sometimes this is not possable, so just try lifting one side at a time (else you will yank the cpu out of the socket which could break pins)

 

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z0n3

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I used this- http://articsilver.com/arctic_silver_thermal_adhesive.htm

 

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CAUTION!
Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive is a permanent adhesive. Components you attach with
Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive will stay attached forever.

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I don't think there's an easy way to take it off. What heatsink are you talking about here because I don't think you should use adhesive for CPU heatsink.

 

meionm

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• May 23, 2005

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Did you used that on heatsink on cpu or heatsink for mofsets

 

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z0n3

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Fets and PLL

 

dylskee

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• May 24, 2005

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Yeah sorry bro, you own the motherboard now. That epoxy is very strong, if you attempt to remove those sinks, the chips are coming with it!! Why are you RMA'ing the board?

 

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z0n3

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They said it was the only way to fix the problem. What is the problem? They didn't tell me. The symptoms are: the wrong multiplyer is being used and certain video cards can not function with it. I will ask if I can RMA with the sinks still on.

 

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They said it didn't matter so I'll send it in with sinks on.