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 to the base of the > heatsink. Right-hand rule of chip removal, I guess?
That worked fantastically well! I don't have enough hair to warrant owning a hairdryer at this point, but my wife had such a machine. I just put it on "low [speed]" and blew hot air in through the fan on the other side of the giant copper heatsink. Melted the thermal g[l]oo tout de suite. And now I'm thinking about upgrading the pots and pans in my kitchen from aluminum and cast iron to copper.... -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." > On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@hackerposse.com > <mailto:roz...@hackerposse.com>> wrote: > > 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 the ZIF sockets (since the socket lever > is covered by the heatsink), and (b) baked thermal paste is > a remarkably good adhesive. > > Somewhat surprisingly..., the CPU is out of the original socket > at this point--it popped out while I was fiddling with the heatsink. > I'm going on the assumption that nothing got broken in the process, > for the time being.... > > Any suggestions on what the right course of action is, here? > > Wikihow advises to soak the CPU+heatsink assembly in isopropanol > and then slicing them apart with dental floss..... _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
