Took about 5 minutes and a steady hand.
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r...ssyX236001.jpg
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Took about 5 minutes and a steady hand.
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r...ssyX236001.jpg
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r...ssyX236002.jpg
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r...ssyX236003.jpg
Oh by the way I eventually did take out the IHS and put the shim on, here are a couple of pics :D
http://www.pctunerup.com/up/results/...16194037_1.jpg
http://www.pctunerup.com/up/results/...16194152_4.jpg
In the second picture there is normal Ceramique on the core, now I use liquid metal paste on it. Thanks to the mod I've turned the vcore down from 1.475 V to 1.4 V, temperatures are about 12° C lower, that leaves more room for overclocking :eek: :D
Geezus reading this thread again makes me wanna pop the hood of my X2 3800+ :D
I might do some serious adjustments before i pop off.... Lowering the bracket for example.
Is removing IHS can help coldbug problem?
People in here are trying to remove the IHS and replace the paste with some AS5. Let me tell you that AS5 wont fit the IHS noways. You can test this by putting something on it, and fit the IHS without glue back on. See if it left any Paste at all on your IHS, if not, you know what i'm talking about.
Since i coud'nt hit 2800MHz for some reason, but hit 340MHz HTT and 550MHZ / 3-3-3-9 speeds (DDR2) my CPU stuck at 2.6GHz is kinda whack. I'm considering to remove the IHS, but i've got a pretty much old batch (65W / 3800+ X2) and i saw some doompics in here on soldered IHS onto the core, and with removal it destroyed it totally. Would i be safe? And i saw putting loadbalancers on your die-package would smaller the chance of your core getting chrused, i have a zalman 9500 LED n stuff. When the case is in it's side, it would defenitly crush the core by hanging on the side, u know?
I don't know about cores being ripped off the PCB, the only one I saw was maybe an old socket 754 CPU.
A shim will totally reduce the risk of crushing the core, I've had it that way for more than six months by now without issues. I have a XP-90C with a 92 mm Tornado, a 9500 LED is definitely lighter, if the heatsink is well tightened you shouldn't crush stuff unless you start kicking the case :D
peel the IHS like your peeling an apple ;)