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

2016-07-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Yeah--it's *stuck*. Maybe if I still had it locked in the socket, > and/or if I'd been running it beforehand and still had it hot..., > though the whole idea of holding the CPU by the pins, using the motherboard

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

2016-07-08 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
On 07/07/2016 10:44 PM, Matt Minuti wrote: > 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

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

2016-07-07 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
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

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

2016-07-07 Thread Matt Minuti
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?

2016-07-07 Thread dennis
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?

2016-07-07 Thread Star
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