Re: Phone SPAM/SCAM

now we're probably all on a watch list, I have a sarcastic remark to add to it but I'm seriously sleep deprived and can't pull it together. Richard Kolb II On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen < roz...@hackerposse.com> wrote: > I used Google Maps to look up the location of the

Re: Phone SPAM/SCAM

We're active Linux users and open-source aficionados. Of course we're on a watchlist. ... Oh, you mean the CIA stuff? Eh, maybe ;) On Jul 7, 2016 10:29 AM, "Richard Kolb II" wrote: now we're probably all on a watch list, I have a sarcastic remark to add to it but I'm

Motherboardectomy: how to un-bond the CPU's heatsink?

Bought a nice CPU a while back, with a cheap motherboard to put it onto until I found something better (in retrospect, that was probably silly...). Finally found a better motherboard, and am now reminde that (a) now I need to get the heatsink off of the CPU in order to transfer the CPU between

Re: Motherboardectomy: how to un-bond the CPU's heatsink?

I've used the dental-floss trick, well, actually, thin fishing line. It worked well enough without the alcohol, it was just a slow, steady process. On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:06 PM Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Bought a nice CPU a while back, with a cheap motherboard to

Re: Motherboardectomy: how to un-bond the CPU's heatsink?

Modern cpus all have heat shields on them so I'd be more worried about he pins than the die. Have you tried rotating the cpu/heatsink in opposite directions (like you were unscrewing it)? That's usually all i've had to do to get them unstuck, even when I've managed to pull the cpu out of the

Re: Motherboardectomy: how to un-bond the CPU's heatsink?

Apply low, gentle heat? The viscosity of most thermal paste/pads changes a lot with temperature. I'd take a hairdryer on low and heat up the heatsink, slowly, occasionally attempting to twist the cpu off by spinning it about the axis perpendicular to the base of the heatsink. Right-hand rule of

Re: Motherboardectomy: how to un-bond the CPU's heatsink?

On 07/07/2016 10:42 PM, dennis wrote: > Modern cpus all have heat shields on them so I'd be more worried > about he pins than the die. Have you tried rotating the cpu/heatsink > in opposite directions (like you were unscrewing it)? That's usually > all i've had to do to get them unstuck, even when

Computer parts up for grabs (was: Motherboardectomy: how to un-bond the CPU's heatsink?)

And of course, this all raises the question...: when I get this sorted, does anyone want the old motherboard? And how about the one that _it_ replaced? :) The motherboard that I'm in the midst of replacing right now is a Biostar A880GZ, micro-ATX board with an AM3+ CPU socket (for a variety of