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- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can remove the heat spreader without damaging the processor by extreme cold; the glue that holds the spreader on is designed to withstand high thermal capacities, but not very low ones, so a deep chill will make the glue incredibly weak, and the spreader can be pried off with a flat-head screwdriver or razor blades.
Oh, and the core's not actually soldered to the heat-spreader (it would defeat the purpose, mainly because you'd lose all kinds of electrons through the heatsink, and the fan noise would almost certainly cause fluctuations in the processor's gates), it's just a thermo-epoxy, again removable by extreme cold or solvent (if you're _really_ willing to risk it). - amdk6III, on 04/28/2008, -0/+0By the way the penryn based processors from intel, the heat spreader is soldered to the processor die so if you remove the heatspreader you will kill the chip. Anyway whats the point if you cant get good preformance then why not go and "BUY" a faster processor. I have a family member who is an intel engineer and he says that overclocking is ok but when u get into things like upping the voltage higher than the threshold and you do things like remove the heatspreader, you are bound to kill your chip and mabie even your motherboard. So that being said you might want to think about this first!
- KostakisS, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Great stuff guys, including the comment.
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