[plug] [OT] Tech rant

[Chris Caston]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 15:59, Chris Caston wrote:
> 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*
> 

All is good and a bloody sexy looking BIOS in this Asus P4R800 to boot!
(no pun intended) 
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