Pics of a naked chic..... I mean an chip

[Rokk1972]

Well I removed the IHS off my A64. The IHS is very thick. Removing it took me about 15min using my razor knife.

I looked all over and even asked for help in locating a good pic of the A64 IHS removed, but there were only a couple of pics, and not very good ones at that. So Here are mine, hope this may help someone else see that it is very ez to do.

NOTE: remove at your own risk!!! And doing so will VOID your warranty.

 

[simpleman]

thats cool

 

[PiMpShiN]

man thats awesome, the core is the largest i've ever seen. but what can you expect, its one of the most powerful cpus.
nice pics

 

[Shade00]

Rokk, are you watercooling that? I was thinking about doing that with my A64 but I'm worried that the HSF won't make good contact. I also doubt I'll see much improvement.

 

[bulk88]

That proves there are no bridges. Also kindda funny how AMD keeps the black sticker on the bottom in case they ever want to go back to bare die.

 

[Cyberwiz01]

WOW, that's a big die!
And that's one sexy chip lol

 

[Rokk1972]

Rokk, are you watercooling that? I was thinking about doing that with my A64 but I'm worried that the HSF won't make good contact. I also doubt I'll see much improvement.

I was watercooling it with a RBX, but my mobo crapped out on me (that make 3 in a row). I was using Chaintech's ZNF3-150 mobo. The 1st one blew sparks after about 6 hours of use, the second died about 1 sec after I hit the power, and the third just slowly doed over a weeks time

So needless to say, I won't be RMA'ing for another ZNF3-150. I am thinking either an ASUS or ABIT to replace it with. I am leaning towards Abit. I have owned both and liked them, but I think that Abit caters to the OC'ers a litter better than ASUS

But I will say for the little time I did have the Chaintech mobo running, I did some of my highest benching ever!!

 

[Fleck]

Abits aren't great these days, and from what I mostly hear Asus boards aren't great overclockers. I've talked to a few people who really love the 8RDA3+ from EPoX and convinced me to go with one, I saw their performance on two PCs with 2500+ CPUs OCd to 2.2+GHz. I haven't been happier with a motherboard in my life.

 

[billobob0]

Abits aren't great these days, and from what I mostly hear Asus boards aren't great overclockers. I've talked to a few people who really love the 8RDA3+ from EPoX and convinced me to go with one, I saw their performance on two PCs with 2500+ CPUs OCd to 2.2+GHz. I haven't been happier with a motherboard in my life.

Um, alot of people with an NF7-S and 2500s have gotten ~2400ghz (220x11 usually), for the XP its one of, if not the, best board around. As for the A-64's, there are still new boards coming out every month, so the best A-64 mobo changes quite frequently...

 

[c627627]

Me no speak Japanese but does this site say you can overclock further by taking off that heat spreader and just putting on an all copper heatsink on your Athlon64?

http://www.e04hardware.com/record/newrecord/removefxihs.htm

 

[Shade00]

Abits aren't great these days, and from what I mostly hear Asus boards aren't great overclockers. I've talked to a few people who really love the 8RDA3+ from EPoX and convinced me to go with one, I saw their performance on two PCs with 2500+ CPUs OCd to 2.2+GHz. I haven't been happier with a motherboard in my life.

Those are Athlon XPs you're talking about, not Athlon 64s.

 

[Caffinehog]

Rokk, are you watercooling that? I was thinking about doing that with my A64 but I'm worried that the HSF won't make good contact. I also doubt I'll see much improvement.

Based on Intel experiences, you'll get a couple degrees cooler, but no better overclock. (Or maybe just slightly better.)

Not worth the risk IMHO.

 

[Caffinehog]

That proves there are no bridges. Also kindda funny how AMD keeps the black sticker on the bottom in case they ever want to go back to bare die.

Bridges-smidges. There may be ways of using pins to do this. AMD had this recently, but intel folks have been volt-modding with pins for years.

 

[johan851]

Looks like a pretty sweet core. I've never really seen that before...but the core isn't all that much bigger. Intel just has a smaller PCB, so it looks a bit bigger than it really is (at least for us AMD folks). Still might be a tad larger.

You should make a shim for that sucker, and I'd hate to see you chip it.

 

[Rokk1972]

Well I have decided to go with the ABIT K8T800 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket 754 CPU, Model "KV8-MAX3" I will give this a shot, the olny thing I can say about it is.... how come Abit doesn't have a Nforce A64 mobo?

 

[Tawcan]

Cool, that's one interesting pic.

 

[McTimson]

Maybe they still have bridges, but they converted them into those little chips around the core.

And yea, I wonder why they kept that black sticker on there...you would think that they'd try to save all the money they can, so why put a sticker on if you're not going to print anything on it?