Removing HyperX DDR's Heatspeader: Who's Done It?

[TechTones]

I'd like to remove the spreaders on some 3500 HyperX but the clips seem to be on there mighty strong.

Has anyone removed the spreader and if yes, how did you do it?

[twiztdskatr]

just scrape off the thermal tape inside it

[TechTones]

I'm talking about the 2 metal clips also. The tape I can slowly pull and tease off. I'd like to hear from someone who has actually done it.

[Intronic]

saaya has done it ;)

[TechTones]

well saaya :)

[Ragnarok]

use a hair dryer and heat it up a bit

then get a credit card or something , insert it between the heatspreader and ramchips and work your way tru it

[TechTones]

What about the 2 metal clips. How do you take them off safely?

[empty]

dont u just slide them off?

[twiztdskatr]

just pull them off, they are just like tight paperclips.

[TechTones]

Believe me I tried. I know it looks simple, and they should slide right off, but they are on real tight. OK I guess it's screw driver time.

[ryanpgroovy]

the chips are just marked kingston if thats what your looking for

[Major]

Ryan I think he just wants to see how they OC without the Heat spreaders

[TechTones]

I just wanted to check out the chips, the PCB, and see if they OC better or worse without them. I know using it or not shouldn't make one bit of difference.

[twiztdskatr]

heatspreaders dont even matter

[ryanpgroovy]

alright then

[saaya]

i used a knife to get under the metal clips and then carefully pull them up. then slowly and carefully pull the heatspreaders off.

heatspreaders dont do :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:, they are just to make the mem look fancy and hide the memory modules...

check this review http://www.themodfathers.com/articles/heatspreader.php

[Tedinde]

I took mine off, Kingston chips -45 at the end. They clock the same without them. Just for looks.

[saaya]

if you clean the glue of the duct tape off you might eventually see the winbond marks on them ;)

but they did a good job of removing the winbond print! yu can still see that its winbond from the two dots in the centre though. kingston doesnt manufacture its own memory and the obnly memory with the 2 dots like that is winbond bh-5 ch-5...

[TechTones]

So how can they take 5ns chips and print "-45" on them?

TwinMOS only uses their TMD chips on their "supposed" 3700.

So where did Kingston get 4.5ns Winbond chips? They didn't...

[saaya]

hehe, well ocz uses 6ns samsung chips on their 3700 memory ;)

they handpick those chips. not all 5ns chips run with 5ns, some do faster some only slower. most memory companies test the chips and buy the fast chips and then rename them to 4.5 or maybe even 4ns

[Intronic]

Just took off the heatspreaders in 3 seconds :D

This is on the chip:

Kingston
V56674
0306 P01
D328DW-45

Is the 45, 4.5ns ?? :D

[TechTones]

It's supposed to be...

[Intronic]

But ..

It's 5ns or something?

[TechTones]

I would bet fashizzle it's 5ns chips.

[Intronic]

Hmz, asses @ kingston :p:

[saaya]

its winbond bh-5 :)

tested to run @4.5ns and then renamed...

hmmm maybe its even ch-5... mine doesnt lik to run 2-2-2-7
well it does but it wants a lot of voltage for that..

[Intronic]

Nah, dont think mine is CH-5.

Can run 5-2-2-2 @ 228fsb on 2,78v .. :p:

[TechTones]

You know I took off the spreaders no problem.

But the funny thing is these sticks have 4 chips on one side, and 4 on the other. I thought Kingston used winbond sticks for their 3500 Hyper?

I've never seen Winbond come in 4 and 4 flavor. Only 8 on a single side for 256 and 8 on each side for 512mb.

So what are these chips?

The only other time I had 4 and 4 was with Infineon ram.