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General Liquid/Water Cooling Discussion For discussion about Full Cooling System kits, or general cooling topics. Keep specific cooling items like pumps, radiators, etc... in their specific forums. |
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Just a word of warning...
I ran across this thread at oc-forums. It appears Intel has a new method for thermally connecting the CPU to the heatspreader. Removing the heatspreader may virtually insure destruction of the CPU. |
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wow. Surprised that didn't elicit more response? I wonder what Intel's doing now to mate IHS to core?
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they need to heat that IHS up and see at what temp it debonds
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I wonder if its that new low-heat-point thermal solder that was being discussed a while back?
That picture is just frightening. |
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Probably too risky to try to cut the 'rubber' while the die is still bonded to the IHS, and cutting the 'rubber' while keeping the IHS at the right temp would be a real pain. If one did get the IHS removed without damaging the core, there would likely be a rough surface of the thermal bonding material on the die to deal with. Only bright side (for us) is that the new bond may have a much better C/W than the old goop provided. |
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was not thinking of the IHS removal, just to identify the matl
quite agree that this seems to be the end of popping the lids I suspect the C/W is appreciably better |
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now we have to lap 'em
not to acheive the flat surface as that issue has been wasted by now, but that the nickel plate finish bothers me. you can see that they leave the copper bare for the soldering (or whatever the hell it is that they do), so at least that is a TIM joint we can be much less worried about, not that we have a choice anyway. what is the difference in heat conductivity we would find from the nickel plate finish being there? is it really much, or not? I know that there probably wouldn't be a difference in even 1 degree C, but it is still somehting to think about. |
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The color looks to me like a plating I've heard called "chromate plating" which is used to put a non oxidizing coating on aluminum to facilitate electrical contact to the aluminum. (I don't have any reason to think this actually is chromate plating - just noting the similarity of the color.) Normal tin/lead solder bonds easily to nickel. I don't have a good guess why the interior of the IHS has that yellow color. |
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Looks to me like the color of certain zinc coatings. When browsing around trying to find a place to get some barbs nickel plated, I came across a zinc plating company. Had a look around their facility and the color of some of the jobs was exactly that yellowish finish, which is the result of some modification to the plating process. I don't any more about it, just that's what it looks like to me.
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However, I think that yellowish color is yet another material, probably plated on top of the nickel. Something to aid the "soldering" of whatever the bonding material is. |
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you are probably right
I had not considered that, just that the color reminded me of copper |
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Well, that sucks!
As Bill said, we need the temp for debonding. I wouldn't try anything above the spec "storage temp", which is... let's see... Hum... Anyone? |
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Dave by now you should know that deductive reasoning and logic are NOT acceptable in a response to Ben.
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DOH! (a la Homer Simpson)
Ok, so what temperatures would ya'll like to try? I'm still searching for the storage temp. |
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since excessive heat may ruin the chip, would the opposite potentially ruin the chip as well? I can remember sticking my video card into the freezer so I could snap the ram sinks off my geforce2 ultra.
But I think that it doesn't matter does anyone here actually have one of these chips that they are willing to destroy? http://www.hardforum.com/showthread....hreadid=693498 at the end of the thread, it seems that he thinks it's more like a thermal adhesive, no so much a permanent bond. Which is good, because then maybe it is easier pull off, but then again I dunno. Intel obviously put something on there that will withstand a wide range of temps, bigben, how you doing on finding that range? |
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