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Will study that closer....:)
From overclock.net (june 2012):
well I wanted to do mine, and I ruined it and had to buy another one. i was careful and one slip of the razor blade cost me $250 so If you can avoid it don't do it. I also bought cool labs liquid pro but haven't even opened it lol. I learned to be happy with 75c temps on a 4.4ghz oc since im not risking 250 again.
What exactly did you do? Sorry, just asking so I don't make the same mistake if I choose to do it.it took alot more force to get the ihs off then I thought it would and I accidentally scraped the PCB and now the chip only runs in single channel memory. Yea i probably did the least amount of damage possible and still ruined it. My advice DON'T DO IT. Someone tried to warn me before hand on here and I didn't listen I wish I had.
I just killed my chipThe blade slipped and I nicked the die twice. As soon as I heard the sound of crushing glass I knew what I'd done but I kept going to see how long it would take. It only took a minute to take the lid off, getting the glue off was the hard part. I just ordered a new one and next time I'll tape up the knife so it can only go in as far as it needs to. I'm confident it won't happen again
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Last edited by tw33k; 12 Oct 2012 at 17:18.
That's bad news Mark. Sorry to hear that buddy.
If you didn't do this, try running the blade around the IHS several times cutting a few thousands of a mm per pass. I did that here The CPU, a small journey but it was a CPU that would not be used again.
I'm using a knife with a paper thin blade that slides under the IHS pretty easily. Once the knife was in, I worked it through but put too much pressure and it slipped. I just taped up the blade and checked it against the dead chip and it'll work. Just have to wait til the weekend's over to get the new one
I wanted to test how the Liquid Ultra goes on so I applied a small amount (a real small amount) and painted the die and the top of the IHS with the little brush they include.