Conroe ihs removal

ted34 · 9 Nov 2006 at 17:43

Have a look at this and see how much some review people are just plain muppets:

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/402/2/

They go to all the hassle of lapping and then they take a blow torch to it after - bunch of plonkers

ns400r · 9 Nov 2006 at 17:54

LOL, good. Serves them right for being so stupid.
Hopefully others will see that and not bother !

joeyjojo · 9 Nov 2006 at 18:02

That was silly. Lapping good, blowtorch bad.

Until there's a better way - don't remove your conroe's ihs!

w3bbo · 9 Nov 2006 at 19:27

Whats more silly is using a corsair nautilus in there '8800gtx dream machine'!

trojan698 · 9 Nov 2006 at 19:50

A blowtorch? Idiots.

Day03 · 9 Nov 2006 at 19:54

how do they solder the IHS in the first place? I think you need higher temps to solder than to de-solder. How do they prevent damage to the core?

robmac · 9 Nov 2006 at 20:04

lmp solder.

maddness · 9 Nov 2006 at 21:04

its a review site, they got processors to burn, literally

whats £300 to them?

Gashman · 9 Nov 2006 at 21:33

Day03 said:
how do they solder the IHS in the first place? I think you need higher temps to solder than to de-solder. How do they prevent damage to the core?

solder melts at the same temperature as when you solder the objects

ted34 · 9 Nov 2006 at 21:36

Soldering melts metal at 450C so intel must be using a special type of soldering but big thing is it must still be high or when using cpu it would just melt solder and cause all sorts of probs

snowdog · 9 Nov 2006 at 21:45

<maddness> said:
its a review site, they got processors to burn, literally

whats £300 to them?

I didnt see 300 quid anywhere, could be a cheap 20 quid celeron they experimented on...
I know it says e6700, but i hardly believe they actually did it, impossible to see from the pics if its actually a c2d...

maddness · 9 Nov 2006 at 21:58

snowdog said:
I didnt see 300 quid anywhere, could be a cheap 20 quid celeron they experimented on...
I know it says e6700, but i hardly believe they actually did it, impossible to see from the pics if its actually a c2d...

plenty of members on XS have removed the ihs on the core2duo ranges.
i was about to but chicked out

I dont have any reason to believe these lot on legit reviews would lie about it.

Fireskull · 9 Nov 2006 at 21:59

I take it that sites american? then it just makes sense

TaKeN · 9 Nov 2006 at 22:15

Fireskull said:
I take it that sites american? then it just makes sense

ROFL !!

Madness, do you get Free CPU's then, seeing that you work @ Intel

??

maddness · 9 Nov 2006 at 22:20

Fireskull said:
I take it that sites american? then it just makes sense

ok not £300, $500 then

TaKeN said:
ROFL !!

Madness, do you get Free CPU's then, seeing that you work @ Intel ??

err yeah sure. lol

Day03 · 9 Nov 2006 at 22:57

Gashman said:
solder melts at the same temperature as when you solder the objects

to solder together you need to heat up the 2 components that you want to solder together otherwise the solder won't stick. To de-solder you only need to heat up the solder itself. In the process you will heat up the components but probably to a lesser degree.

<maddness> said:
its a review site, they got processors to burn, literally

whats £300 to them?

They probably get them for free from the manufacturers just so that they can write good things about them.

Its_Me · 10 Nov 2006 at 00:49

Solder comes with melting point just below 183°c though.
Not that high a point as its localised.

Captain Fizz · 10 Nov 2006 at 11:56

ROFL!

If it's soldered - The thermal transfer to the IHS will be nearly as good as having the cooler directly on the core.
(Mind you, I'm not one for that extra 0.5 degrees celcius)

Well done.

Marci · 10 Nov 2006 at 14:22

Intel uses Indium Solder pads for it's TIM1 joint (die to IHS) - soldering takes place during first time the processor itself is fired up at Intel's factory. Heat of the CPU does the job.

Have a read here: http://www.enerdynesolutions.com/learn_thermalinterfaces.html and here: http://www.enerdynesolutions.com/tech_indigo.html for some of the processes involved etc.

For further info, see this thread: http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=12488&p=151015 - however, tis a technical minefield...

Its_Me · 10 Nov 2006 at 14:52

Seems the phase change state can be as low as 60°c for the Indium foil TIM.

Typical value seems to be 430 K (157 ºC) though.

I would say that removal with a gas cigar lighter or a micro blow torch (http://www.plumbworld.co.uk/608-0000) would be safer.