Intel Ihs Tim = Crap ?

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

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

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

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Originally Posted by alexio

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

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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..

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

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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)

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

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Originally Posted by slavearm

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

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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..

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