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Or have they gone to solder/epoxy as intel has?
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Some black crap - 10 secs with a craftknife blade and it's off... no difficulty particularly - unless you push in too deep and swipe off a few resistors etc... LX tape on the blade prevents that tho...
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I've been overclocking since 1996. If I'm not an enthusiast... I don't know who is. Yet I REFUSE to take a knife to my $600 X2 4400+ processor. It ISN'T going to happen, and I am quite sure I am not alone here.
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k - so you KNOW the power of your cooling system, yeah? So, imagine if in 6 months time you decided to buy a second x2 4400+, and swapped em straight over, but for some reason the new chip is running 10 deg hotter than the old... AMD won't replace as there's no fault - the chip works, just does so slightly hot - but there's nothing that defines what temp the cpu should be running at according to manufacturer, as long as it's below xx deg C... so nothing to go against in the argument that you want your CPU replacing cos it runs 10 deg hotter than another... you're stuck with that CPU. That's what folks are having to do here. They move from one CPU to another, that should give them an expected
marginal temp increase.... yet they're seeing a RIDICULOUS temp increase for no apparent reason. S'not in the mountings. I've had em brought in to the store for me to try and sort, and only conclusion is to remove IHS as the chip isn't faulty per-se... or deal with the fact that your PA120.3, Storm G4, & Laing D5 with Panaflo M1A's can't keep the only thing in your loop within 15 deg of ambient at stock under load when in fact it should be more than easily capable. So, a £400 chip vs a £300 cooling system. And you're losing all the benefits of that cooling system cos of some crappy bit of tin they've badly gooped onto the die. No RMA Option on the kit - it ain't the kit's fault either.
For some removing IHS is a necessity. You're lucky that you haven't had a bad chip that has resulted in the NEED to remove the IHS.
Those who've experienced such will likely remove the IHS from every CPU they buy thereafter just to remove the ballache of a chance that you mount it all up and you've got ANOTHER duff one...