Removing the A64 IHS

[flapane]

great man...
my winchester dropped to 50C@2000rpm to 38C@0rpm lol

[Xchus]

I'm worried about my temps (check sig) on load is 53C with the settings in sig, at stock (1.38v) is the same it idles at 47C and load is 53C.

My friend knows how to remove the IHS, should I go for it, but since I got a XP-90 can I resit the IHS?

Thanks.

[SidVicious]

Have anyone else made a keychain out of their heatspreader ?

[Heartfixer]

Here is my removal procedure. Unfortunately, you have to register to download the movie. And prepare for quite some time, it's 75Mb in size

And yeah, I wear my IHS next to my flashdrive

[THunDA]

Another movie here ..
http://files.filefront.com/IHS_remov.../fileinfo.html

[mnewxcv]

my 3

[KILLorBE]

Have anyone else made a keychain out of their heatspreader ?

I hate spare change, let alone keys or especially keychains for that matter, so NO I haven't and will not try it.

Let me see:
1) Key to enter the building.
2) Key to enter my apartment.
3) Key to open the gate to my shed (Key #2 fits the shed).
4) Key to open my mail box.
5) Key for my moped.
6) Key for the lock of my moped.
7) Key for the lock of my bike.
8) Key from a friends place.
9) Another key from the same friends place.
10) Key from yet another moped...orso..
And so on and so forth...keys suck, all they do is make holes in your pockets and stick you in places you don't want to.

**EDIT** mnewxcv WTF happened to the middle one?

[mnewxcv]

i put downward pressure on the chip trying to pry the ihs up. didnt work. bye bye fx-51. the one on the left is a opteron 140 which was my practice chip so i wouldnt mess up and kill the fx-51. didnt go as planned. anyways the one on the left is also a fx-51 which went sucessfully, but later died, not sure what happened. i thot as5 was conductive and i got some on one of the packets, but another thread says it isnt conductive? well as5 was on a packet and smoked pours from the chip. end of that. proud to be on my 3rd fx-51.

[Heartfixer]

...anyways the one on the left is also a fx-51 which went sucessfully, but later died, not sure what happened.

Did you use shims? Maibe you messed up the die...

[mnewxcv]

Did you use shims? Maibe you messed up the die...

never use shims but i have a hsf that screws down and I do one turn at a time to each side to keep it equal.

[Heartfixer]

Then that's what you did. You popped the die. Shims are a must, since you can turn the screws one at a time even for 1/4 of a turn at a time, you still have TWO screws and the pressure varies too damn much. This is how i messed up the chipset on my DFI LP UT NF4 Ultra-D. Waterblock and no shims => happens.
The four shims you must use on a A64 take extremely much pressure, that's why you have to use hard plastic or even hard cardboard (my own favourite since I drink a lot of boxed milk ).


Later edit: you can see in my drawing (me no artist ) how shims dissipate the dangerous pressure, son that the CPU is not stressed. Mounting a heatsink on a topless CPU and then turning the motherboard in the mounting position (vertical) makes the inferior part of the CPU die to be stressed more.

[mnewxcv]

idk, i kinda doubt that. I do it all the time on my opteron 140 and did it on my fx-51 while it lasted and nothing ever happened.

[Absolute_0]

Popped the IHS on my best 146 and put it on water.

On air with IHS it would load around 51c with 1.55v

Currently loading at 38c with 1.61v and 3.2 Ghz clocks

[ShoNuff]

kocsonya...what did you use to remove the remaining black adhesive material from around the core? Your processor really cleaned up nicely.

[kocsonya]

kocsonya...what did you use to remove the remaining black adhesive material from around the core? Your processor really cleaned up nicely.

razor blade

[dz`]

Popped the top off my E3 venice today.

Before:


After:


I'm testing it on stock cooling since my xp-120 isn't bolt on. I tried my best to mod the bracket so I could get good contact. Loading at 39 degrees at 2.5GHz on stock vcore. This doesn't seem to impressive to me perhaps I need more pressure (lowering the bracket some more?) on the core. Please advise.

My 146 is next under the knife, don't like these 50+ load temps

[kocsonya]

enzo:

3700+ san diego e6 stepping = "half" toledo core!
plz update

[jcniest5]

Is the adhesive soft (like gum/glue/goo) or is it hard (like SuperGlue after dry, etc)?

[Enz0]

enzo:

3700+ san diego e6 stepping = "half" toledo core!
plz update

Do you have picture of it?

[kocsonya]

Do you have picture of it?

yes

[dz`]

Is the adhesive soft (like gum/glue/goo) or is it hard (like SuperGlue after dry, etc)?

It's soft like gum/glue.

[CompGeek]

yes

Thats a NICE clean removal.

[Enz0]

yes
http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/4350/hpim67111mi.jpg
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/5015/hpim67041fr.jpg

Thank you kocsonya.
I've updated the post.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=491

[-.-PhanTom-.-]

Isn't there somewhere one could buy a shim that would fit on a A64 cpu if one decides to cut off IHS? ..Or maybe some of those pads that were on the older AMD cpus would help to evenly distribute the presure on the core caused by the heatsink/waterblock?

[EvilCloudStrife]

Isn't there somewhere one could buy a shim that would fit on a A64 cpu if one decides to cut off IHS? ..Or maybe some of those pads that were on the older AMD cpus would help to evenly distribute the presure on the core caused by the heatsink/waterblock?

I have used the foam pad that comes with the Chip itself in the plastic container. It has worked for me in the past