Okay, I've removed the shim of epoxy around it, but it still barely budges, does this mean I've solder TIM? Cause I don't want to stick a soldering pencil at my CPU
Okay, I've removed the shim of epoxy around it, but it still barely budges, does this mean I've solder TIM? Cause I don't want to stick a soldering pencil at my CPU
I removed the IHS from a 1.6A and 1.8A but, IIRC, Northwood C's were the first to use epoxy/solder/whatever as the TIM, making it unremoveable. I never even tried with my 2.6C or 3.0C.Originally Posted by Celeron Gamer
FWIW, removing the IHS lowered my cpu temp by 2-3C and increased my max OC by 0MHz on the 1.6 and 1.8As...
osnap, I just heard a crack after heating it at 57C, :O
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normaly there is any problems with northwood. you can removing the ihs
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you can remove the soldered ihs. you have to heat it up and then lift it slowly. have a look over at hardwareasylum. bbmods showed there how to do it!
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Yeah, that snap you might have heard was the solder releasing.
Good luck with it, be sure to post piccies
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