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S939 A64 IHS Removal

Its_Me said:
Who put this as a sticky ?

Pointless IMHO
Little notice about

NO WARANTY if you remove the IHS.
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Jokester said:
Oh yeah, you do this at your own risk as it "might" void your warrranty! :p

Jokester
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To be honest, if your on an overclocking forum and you don't know that making irreversible modifications to your hardware doesn't void the warranty then you must be fairly naive.

The reason I posted this is that people are doing this and killing their chips, but if you do it right the risk is negligible.

Jokester
 
Well its good to see something/guide is getting stuck in the forum, but its not like we get loads of recurring posts about IHS removal in CPU's.
So I guess this is in the wrong place then ?

And sadly this forum is not just an enthusiats site- its also a big etailer's so we do get 'naive' and 'new' members.
Just saying that I could see someone walking back into the store with "I followed your guide on your website" type thing :)
 
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good guide, i did my 3000 venice a lil' while ago, peice of ****, used a couple of razor blades, cut my finger a bit though... and theres a little copper showing near the breather hole :p works fine though, much better contact with the water block so temp. never jumps like it used to with the ihs on.

One thing i did find was that if i tightned the waterblock till it couldnt tighten any more the pc wouldnt boot, the light on the mobo which indicates if a cpu is detected or not didnt come on, so i loosened it a bit and it worked fine!? :confused: weird!
 
Excellent guide.

I have been contemplating whether to do this for a long time, my main worry is that i think i might crush the core, even if using a screw down method for heatsink.

If you look on the socket A processors they have four pads in the four corners i presume to stabilize the heatsink and protect the core from being crushed. Now when removing the IHS all the pressure is then being forced onto the core itself. I am wondering just how much pressure can the core take, and maybe if the use of neoprene around the core could act as some sort of stabiliser?

I think that is a good guide, however i think it s only half of the story and you should show pictures of mounting the heatsink water block etc. The IHS acts as a barrier which protects the core, this means that you can apply a lot of pressure without cracking or damaging the core, thus removal of the IHS will undoubtedly increase the risk of cracking or damaging the core.

I noticed that you put electrical paste over the naked IC’s, I think I heard somewhere that these can get quite hot. So putting that electrical paste over the IC’s would that not cause a blanket effect?

RichUK :)
 
SHould work for air cooling as well, but be aware that you need to use a HS that doesn't clip on like the stock HS but use pillars and then is fitted vertically from above with springs/nuts to apply the correct force.

Jokester
 
Has anyone had any problems mounting a Mach II GT on an IHSless CPU? Is the contact ok? Is there anything that needs to be done differently to a normal mounting?
 
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