Removing glued on heatsink (was: Anyone need 486 motherboards?)

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Wed Oct 30 02:02:00 2002

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, chris wrote:

> Ok, anyone know of a safe way of removing a glued on heatsink? I have a
> few of these 486 CPUs where the heatsink is glued down. I could just jam
> a screwdriver in and snap it off, but that just doesn't seem very good
> for the chip.

Well, it depends...were the heatsinks factory installed or added to a
stock cpu? If it is a factory job, and you just want to identify the chip,
the markings on the bottom should suffice. Otherwise, many types of
thermal epoxy are evil and nearly impossible to remove without damaging
the cpu...

-Toth
Received on Wed Oct 30 2002 - 02:02:00 GMT