taking p4 chip off of heatsink?

toil · 25-03-2003 6:42pm #1

Hey,
I got a dell dimensions 4300,
the p4chip has a heatsink type grill attached to it.....
Thermo paste does not stick like glue does it?
How do i get the p4 chip off of the heatsink?

thanks

toil

Ruu_Old · 25-03-2003 7:09pm

if u remove the heatsink right, there will be some plasticy gunk on the chip, be careful removing it or u could mess it up. Its pretty messy, thermal paste

toil · 25-03-2003 7:13pm

no you see,
The heatsink appears to be glued to the processor!
I can not get the chip off of the heatsink,
am going to take an anglegrinder to it soon :-)

But i have never used one let allone seen one so i wont be doing that ;-P

Any ideas?

toil

Ruu_Old · 25-03-2003 7:18pm

have a look at here just for some guidlines, good luck

toil · 25-03-2003 7:31pm

yea, no that site does not really cover the problem i have,
the heatsink is glued (looks like a white substance)
to the heat sink,
I presume this is like this in all dimension 4300 machines,
what type thermo paste do dell use!!?
is it glue?

think it is called a passive heatsink.

toil

SouperComputer · 25-03-2003 7:33pm

try to pry it off with little force in a circular fashion.

CodeMonkey · 25-03-2003 7:57pm

That's not really just plain thermal paste. It's a double sided sticker thingy with thermal paste on it found on all official intel p4 heatsinks. The sticker itself is like a thin strip of metal. I've only ripped it off the heatsink before before using some real thermal paste so I am of no real help here except you can probably do it if you're just careful. The sticker is not as strong as superglue, should come off.

BabyEater · 25-03-2003 8:17pm

If its the hard stuff like glue pop it in a bag and chuck it in the freezer for about half an hour take it out and the heatsink should twist off with a little force.

toil · 25-03-2003 8:22pm

yea,those p4's a pretty small, tis hard to do that,
in work at min will have a good go at it later.....

I was just wondering if there is like i can do so it just pop's off....

but anyway,

thanks for replys

toil

Praetorian · 25-03-2003 8:25pm

Thats a classic Dell & Gateway thing to do!

I remember years back I had a 200mhz CPU..Gatway had glued the heat sink to it. When i eventually freed the CPU i discovered it was actually a 166 overclocked

Nice one Gateway!

I think Dell also used to glue the power cables into the hard drives / cd drives...It was extremely annoying anyway!

taking p4 chip off of heatsink?

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