[plug] [OT] Tech rant

[Chris Caston]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 15:54, Ben Jensz wrote:
> Chris Caston wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 15:15, Simon Duff wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>actual superglue or thermal epoxy? o.O
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I'm not sure. Does one of them have a secret way of making it relinquish
> >its grip?
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> I put artic silver on the heatsink of my P4 and its pretty hard to get 
> the CPU and heatsink apart (it keeps the temp 4-5 degrees cooler than 
> the thermal contact on the heatsink by default though).  I actually let 
> the CPU run for a while to get it warm to soften up the thermal paste a 
> bit to get the heatsink off... but it still was hard.... I did it by 
> moving the heatsink sideways as to not rip the CPU out of the socket by 
> pulling it upwards.  Carefully of course..
> 
> If they did use something like artic silver thermal epoxy... good luck, 
> that stuff bonds exceptionally well.  I've used it before to stick a new 
> heatsink + fan onto a graphics card before, did not budge at all.. you'd 
> rip the GPU off of the card before you'd separate the heatsink from the GPU.
> 
> 
> / Ben
> 

Yeah I just got it off actually. Must have just been extremely hardened
thermal paste. My apologies to the previous tech.

Originally when I took the CPU fan + heatsink out of the socket the CPU
came up with it while the ZIF lever was still down!

Now to try out the CPU to see if its still good. *fingers crossed*


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