HOW TO REMOVE i7 IHS

[billdavis]

it survived the ihs removal but didnt the mounting...should of took more time...but im just to lazy

it was a week 39 and had high temps on water couldnt even clock it to 3.5 the soldering had some holes in it but cant say if it was from the removal or not

[GamerBR]

Huge bump on this thread. But while reading it I had an idea which people never tried for removing the IHS. Why not using some chemical, that reacts and dissolve solder, but not silicon? So all that it would be needed would be drilling a little hole on the IHS, or inject it with a needle below the IHS(removing the glue first).
I think there are plenty of acids able to do that. Silicon is unaffected by most acids, including sulfuric acid.
That would be definitely less dangerous to the CPU than desoldering the IHS if the PCB is also acid resistant. If it's not I think it would still be feasible be slowly removing the IHS area over the die and adding acid until all the solder from the die is removed, without dropping any acid on the PCB.

[zalbard]

Forget about removing it, it's not worth it unless you are going to solder the waterblock directly to the die.

[=[PULSAR]=]

just got my IHS removed whats the best way off cleaning off all that solder?

[=[PULSAR]=]

Well finished polishing down to the actual core too bad though my waterblock doesn't reach it even with the IHS back in place its roughly 55C in bios. Looks like I need to go out tomorrow and find some kind of copper shim.

[tool_462]

Well finished polishing down to the actual core too bad though my waterblock doesn't reach it even with the IHS back in place its roughly 55C in bios. Looks like I need to go out tomorrow and find some kind of copper shim.

Remove the bracket on the mobo and use a block that has threaded bolts all the way down so you can control the pressure very safely and evenly.

[=[PULSAR]=]

I'll have to look in the morning but isn't the bracket riveted onto the board usually?

[tool_462]

I'll have to look in the morning but isn't the bracket riveted onto the board usually?

The top part comes off, I can't post from there at work (blocked site) but if you go to www.xcpus.com and look for Sirrobin4ever's thread, he removed the IHS and got some very good results with water and the bracket removed.

[RAMdHERsoftware]

Very impressive but seriously, this just looks like its to much of a pain and a high risk factor. just Lap it a bit and call it a day.

[SoulsCollective]

Very impressive but seriously, this just looks like its to much of a pain and a high risk factor.

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[barfastic]

is this possible with an i7 3930K ?

[G.Foyle]

Try it and let us know

[xpower]

nothing is impossible

[Atzenkeeper500]

I am planing to remove the IHS from my Sandy Bridge 2600K. I will remove the bracket from the Mobo and use other Srews to use my Waterblock direct on the DIE - I am doing it right now, with the IHS. I am planing not to use a lighter after cutting the edges, I want to use a flat iron. I think I get enough heat to melt the Iron Solder and flip the IHS down. But what is the best thing to remove the rest solder from the DIE without destroying it. Direct after removing the IHS, is the rest solder on the DIE warm enough to take it up - with what?

[BeepBeep2]

Sandpaper (Maybe 800/1000 grit).

I don't think you will be successful, you will most likely kill the chip. It isn't as simple as just heating with a lighter or flat iron, you MUST watch your temperatures, I would not go further than 160c...

Anyway, why would you do such a thing? You won't gain any overclock headroom, and temperature difference will be very minimal, maybe even unnoticeable.

[theix]

Sandpaper (Maybe 800/1000 grit).

I don't think you will be successful, you will most likely kill the chip. It isn't as simple as just heating with a lighter or flat iron, you MUST watch your temperatures, I would not go further than 160c...

Anyway, why would you do such a thing? You won't gain any overclock headroom, and temperature difference will be very minimal, maybe even unnoticeable.

Unless you got an IVY.

[Atzenkeeper500]

I hoped for less heat. Less Heat is always Good and I hoped for more OC Headroom, because I can give more VCore

[zeroibis]

Unless you got an IVY.

I would love to see someone take it off on one of those and then replace the TIM with better stuff and then put it right back on to see just from doing that how much it lowers temps.

[Kain665]

Sorry guys.

But threadsurrection for awesome direct-die block.