With or Without IHS when phase change cooling?

[101]

What are your opinions on this? I have no qualms about removing the heat spreader, I've done it on previous P4s, and no the chip I am working with now is not one with the soldered on IHS. However I was concerned after seeing this (http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NDE5) over at hardocp where they managed to get one off presumably though the contraction of the IHS under the reduced temperature or other TCE mismatch issue. I certainly don't want to kill the chip in such a manner, however I'm a little concerned about chiping it with the evaporator should I choose to remove it.

I'm leaning towards removing it and using a shim or some felt pads (done previously) to reduce the likelyhood of cracking the core, but I am curious to know if anyone else has managed to duplicate what they did in popping one off. Any thoughts or experiences anyone can share?

[prommy_fan]

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[sandman]

I personally wouldn't, but I know many here will disagree.

[afireinside]

Oh god I just remembered the heat spreader. Can you get condensation under it with an A64?

[101]

I tried various searches but "IHS" as it is commonly refered to is too small to be a search parameter. No one ever calls it an "integrated heat spreader" <-- for the benefit of future searches :). There was a small handfull of relevant threads, but was looking for more recent info. I think I'm going to take my chances with it off anyways, I've seen it yeild a couple ºC on water. Just need to be carefull and add some pads.

Is the IHS on the A64s as easy to remove as the regular northwoods? I've yet to toy with one yet, but I think they're going to get very popular when the 939 pin for unbuffered dimms becomes available.

[charlie]

the search engine should be allowed to look for 3 character words...

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