Intel Ihs Tim = Crap ?

[npvk_x.]

Hello, have this Pentium D950, it have died away slowly.
it still boots and run but the response to volt and fsb have faded away gradualy.

So when i bought a new chip to replace it i poped the hs, as we all know the Intel Ihs`s are "soldered" on, the tim is lika a metal with low melting temp.

To get the ihs off without cracking the core, i heat the ihs carefully with a torch.. :p:

results are:
http://www.home.no/npvk/bilder/chipihssmall.jpg

big: http://www.home.no/npvk/bilder/chipihs.jpg


http://www.home.no/npvk/bilder/soldclosesmall.jpg

big: http://www.home.no/npvk/bilder/soldclose.jpg

Solder is real soft and can be removed with the finger nail..
Now i just wonder, have anny of you extreme beeings tryed this and found bubles in the solder like you can see at the pictures?!

I realy dont think those bubles formed when pulling the ihs, and would be KILLING the coolig of those core parts...I suspect this killed this chip..:slapass:

Any comments?

Regards Npvk_x

[alexio]

Looks like the stuff has been boiling when you heated it with a torch.

[[XC] moddolicous]

Run some tests. See if it runs cooler (it should).

[npvk_x.]

Looks like the stuff has been boiling when you heated it with a torch.


could be but i dont think so,, heated gradualy and the deapth of the bubles show it was not totaly liquid..

also the bubles might have formed one time i started the system who HS... system shut down from overheating.. only time i know the cpu to have been realy hot.

otherwise the cpu have been under 60c load.. at my tt-bigtyphoon or my water cooling..


Run some tests. See if it runs cooler (it should).
i dont have anny good temps noted down before the ish pop, now it is refitted with new tim. as-Ceramique and it is still the same (fubar)

[slavearm]

Maybe I am not following this... was the chip Fubar before you torched it or just after?

[npvk_x.]

Maybe I am not following this... was the chip Fubar before you torched it or just after?

before,
it have been dying the past few months. random reboots and poor stability, temps have never been high, ran 4.6ghz @ 1.46v about 45c load.
mem, motherboard and all is fine..

[npvk_x.]

bump? no one have tryed this?
then i just might have to pop my 930hs :D