Son of a... P3 Heatsink Removal?

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HOW DO YOU DISMANTLE THIS THING? Grrr!!!

I've been blocking the heatsinks for my project system and putting on thermal compound. I blocked out the heatsink for my old Voodoo3, which was not even close to flat... really could use more, but anyway. Then I blocked the heatsink for the chipset on this BH6 which was the worst I have ever seen. It took me forever to get this thing flat with a piece of 240. I forgot I could use a file from the garage. I thought I'd work the heatsink on this P3-500, but I cannot figure out how to get it apart and I've been googling for half an hour and can't come across any examples of how to get one apart. Are these just not meant to come apart? haha!

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Re: Son of a... P3 Heatsink Removal?

Okay, finally found instructions on how to remove this sum'biscuit. I was expecting to find better, but this heatsink also needs to be blocked. I just don't see how the processor pressing against the anodized surface can be as good as pressing against bare aluminum. I'll file this guy down, tomorrow and put some new paste on.

I noticed while I had the actual CPU card out of it's assembly that there are some spots where they neglected to install some of the chip type capacitors. I don't do overclocking so this will probably never concern me, but I didn't expect them to neglect components.

[shadow]

Re: Son of a... P3 Heatsink Removal?

Was this heatsink from the socket based P3's or the Slot based? Either way I did not find them hard at all to take apart....except for the 1Ghz P3 heatsink where there is a weird mounting system. It is the one with the green lever.

Edit: I picked up an old slot P2 processor and found out what you mean.

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yeah it was a slot processor. I didn't expect it to have those little push pins like the clips we use on cars... which usually break. Thank goodness these did not.

[tazwegion]

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I did not find them hard at all to take apart....except for the 1Ghz P3 heatsink where there is a weird mounting system. It is the one with the green lever.

Yeah I know the ones you mean, on the heatsinks with the weird fan mounting arrangement... I replace those with generic socketA/370 units

Pushpins Logistics? like what are used to hold on GPU coolers as well?

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Re: Son of a... P3 Heatsink Removal?

Most Coppermines have an excess number of MLCC mounting locations on the flip side of the FC-PGA package - they're populated accordingly depending on the FSB, Core Clock and size of the enabled L2 cache. If it's a slow Celeron with a 66 FSB, low multiplier and 128k L2 cache, then you'll find a few MLCCs. OTOH, if it's a 1GHZ P3 with 133 FSB and 256K L2 cache, expect to find all MLCCs installed. It's just a manufacturing optimization, which also incidentally helps thwart overclocking efforts.