Project: Virgin Suicide - First Time - Lian Li P80

[redphil]

You got a link?

Sorry, it was in a forum, but no idea where.

[WinstonSthlm]

I think I'm stuck with my stock Corsair Dominator Heat Sinks.
Today I searched around for solutions to remove the heat sink but looks like Corsair use some kind of superglue/thermal paste. Have no idea why but if I don't get any info on if it's possible to remove the stock heat sink and how I will not risk damaging the chip



Seen in this picture is something looking like glue between sink and ram chip.
It looks like the thermal paste doesn't even cover the whole surface of the memory chip.



You can remove the top fins from the head sink but doesn't to loosen the sink from the chip.
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[Oli4v]

I wouldn't risk it, I had this problem with corsair pc8500's, not the dominators, but the casual dimm's, and after long time heating with a hair dryer, than pulling and fumbeling, the chips came with the spreader -_-

[WinstonSthlm]

I got almost all of my stuff now. Yesterday NB/SB water block, tubing, screws etc arrived

When I opened the package to my surprise I saw that I got the wrong top for the water block

I ordered from ChilledPC and they also did nickel plating of the block to a really nice price. Since they had the the plexi top version as product picture for the acetal one I ordered the wrong one.

Tom said that I could send the top back and he would send a plexi top in exchange, but that would take even longer for me to get this system up. Instead I did an order for a plexi top from EK waterblocks for 14€



Nickel plated NB/SB water block with acetal top.





Looks nice, but why would I want to nickel plate a acetal one lol





Heat sinks removed.





Rampage II Extreme heat sink.
In the top of the picture the Republic of Gamers QPI DRAM Power card with heat sink.





I'm not going to water cool the mosfet, not at start anyway, so will leave the original heat sink on.
Since the heat sink is one whole piece I had to cut the heat pipe to the mosfet's





I thought a heat pipe had some kind of liquid inside it.
Looks like some kind of copper crystals.





I used the Tuniq TX-3 thermal paste for both blocks and I have never had such a problem applying thermal paste. It's thick as *** and applying it was like working with pizza dough on the chips





Wonder if it will look better with the plexi top
Problem I have now is how to fasten the ROG QPI card.
Maybe I make some kind of bracket to hold it in place.





I also got the Sythe Bay Rafter 2.5 so I mounted my SSD inside the HDD cage.
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