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Would This be Safe to Try?

RelentlessAF
By RelentlessAF
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Hey guys, so at the end of thee month I'm going to get a new heatsink as apart of my silenced optimized build I'm currently working on and I have the intel stock cooler stuck to the CPU with thermal adhesive, yadda yadda I found that I could remove it by Freezing it (by suggestion of a forum member) upon looking into it someone with a similar problem with RAM chips stuck the ram in the freezer overnight. I'm not willing to give this a shot without knowing it's safe, so do you guys know if it would be safe for me to put the mobo in the freezer overnight? I can't imagine cold being good for electronics.

 

Also note: It's 3a.m. my time so if this all seems completely irrational and stupid, I'm tired.

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Don't. The condensation can harm the board. Low temperatures on the other hand, are fine.

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Don't. The condensation can harm the board. Low temperatures on the other hand, are fine.

Thanks for the warning, any idea on how I could go about freezing the specific area or would you recommend heat instead? I've been thinking I could run Prime 95 for a few hours to try and soften the adhesive. It's really cheap adhesive from Wal_Mart and is rated for about 110C which is more the my CPU will output but I suppose it would work.

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Thanks for the warning, any idea on how I could go about freezing the specific area or would you recommend heat instead? I've been thinking I could run Prime 95 for a few hours to try and soften the adhesive. It's really cheap adhesive from Wal_Mart and is rated for about 110C which is more the my CPU will output but I suppose it would work.

Your local grocery might sell dry ice, using gloves you can place that on the heatsink with the fan off of course to get it really cold

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I know that with heat and moving the cooler around alittle bit, another member was able to get the heatsink off of a CPU while it was still in the socket.

Okay thanks for letting me know, I'm not going to be trying it until the new heatsink arrives. Plus my dad is going to help and he's very crafty and should be able to properly assist me with removing it safely without damaging the hardware.

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With heat you have a chance of ruining something, such as the CPU chip. It's best to freeze crack it off then use sand paper to get it off the surface of the heat spreader

Ah well I'll look into each option carefully and will elaborate in the future how it goes in a build log or something.

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