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inflames988 · 07-14-2005, 10:13 AM

Removing the HS is definetely your best bet like doctorgonzo said.

A friend of mine swapped his board when it died for a replacement of the same kind. he took out the heatsink with the cpu still stuck on the bottom, left it in an antistatic bag for a couple days, then just stuck it right back in. of course you can almost see NOTHING this way, especially if you have a larger heatsink, and as doctor said its very easy to bend those pins. I wouldn't recommend this.

07-14-2005, 10:13 AM	#5
inflames988 Member (11 bit) Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Silicon Valley Posts: 1,512	Removing the HS is definetely your best bet like doctorgonzo said. A friend of mine swapped his board when it died for a replacement of the same kind. he took out the heatsink with the cpu still stuck on the bottom, left it in an antistatic bag for a couple days, then just stuck it right back in. of course you can almost see NOTHING this way, especially if you have a larger heatsink, and as doctor said its very easy to bend those pins. I wouldn't recommend this. __________________ Desktop: Intel Core i7 930 @ 4.0 GHz \| Sapphire HD 6850 \| Asus P6X58D Premium \| Vertex 2 120GB \| 12GB OCZ DDR3 \| Notebook: 13" Macbook Pro \| 2.26GHz C2D \| 4GB Mushkin DDR3 \| Nvidia 9400M \| 500GB Scorpio Blue \| OS X Lion \| File Server: Intel Atom N330 \| Zotac ION G-E \| 4GB Corsair XMS2 \| 3 x 2TB Caviar Green \|