How to remove TIM from chipset?

[Mike Jetson]

Hello,

 

I have ASUS P7H55D-M PRO motherboard. I was upgrading my cpu to i7-860 and accidently grabed on chipset and it's heatsink unglued from chipset.

I removed heatsink and found yellow glue-like paste. It's consistency is like a hard glue. I couldn't remove it with isopropil alcohol at all, and instead i just applyed regular thermal paste. But would like to remove that old TIM and apply a fresh one on the clean surface, because now my chipset temps is higher then before.

 

Thanks for any help. 

[-rascal-]

Hello,

I have ASUS P7H55D-M PRO motherboard. I was upgrading my cpu to i7-860 and accidently grabed on chipset and it's heatsink unglued from chipset.

I removed heatsink and found yellow glue-like paste. It's consistency is like a hard glue. I couldn't remove it with isopropil alcohol at all, and instead i just applyed regular thermal paste. But would like to remove that old TIM and apply a fresh one on the clean surface, because now my chipset temps is higher then before.

Thanks for any help.

That yellow stuff is not your ordinary paste. Its like a compound / hybrid of thermal paste and thermal foam pad. It's like a thermal adhesive.

What thermal paste did you use on it? Some may be electrically harmful (if they are conductive).

You are getting higher temperatures because the chipset heatsink is not making full contact. Thermal paste only works for microscopic gaps...not for gaps that are like 2mm apart. Get some new thermal tape / adhesive (like the ones you would use on graphics card VRAM chips).

Something like this. You can cut the size you want / need.

http://www.ncix.com/detail/ek-water-blocks-thermal-pad-d4-101511.htm

[Mike Jetson]

That yellow stuff is not your ordinary paste. Its like a compound / hybrid of thermal paste and thermal foam pad. It's like a thermal adhesive.

What thermal paste did you use on it? Some may be electrically harmful (if they are conductive).

You are getting higher temperatures because the chipset heatsink is not making full contact. Thermal paste only works for microscopic gaps...not for gaps that are like 2mm apart. Get some new thermal tape / adhesive (like the ones you would use on graphics card VRAM chips).

Something like this. You can cut the size you want / need.

http://www.ncix.com/detail/ek-water-blocks-thermal-pad-d4-101511.htm

I used some CoolerMaster TIM that came with my CPU heatsink. I placed a very small amount of it. I believe, if I somehow clear that yelow mess, I might be ok with regular TIM. because it has some thermal pads square shape with cut out around the chip it self for transistors or something.

[Leonard]

Hello,

 

I have ASUS P7H55D-M PRO motherboard. I was upgrading my cpu to i7-860 and accidently grabed on chipset and it's heatsink unglued from chipset.

I removed heatsink and found yellow glue-like paste. It's consistency is like a hard glue. I couldn't remove it with isopropil alcohol at all, and instead i just applyed regular thermal paste. But would like to remove that old TIM and apply a fresh one on the clean surface, because now my chipset temps is higher then before.

 

Thanks for any help. 

How on earth could you have done this, that epoxy is really hard to take off and did you break the push pins?...anyway you can use this or this as a replacement and the Arctic is the more widely used of the two but removing the previous epoxy from the motherboard will be a problem so just put some on top of the existing one and check the temperatures. 

[Mike Jetson]

How on earth could you have done this, that epoxy is really hard to take off and did you break the push pins?...anyway you can use this or this as a replacement and the Arctic is the more widely used of the two but removing the previous epoxy from the motherboard will be a problem so just put some on top of the existing one and check the temperatures. 

The chip itself is very small, and the heatsink holds only with 2 plastic pins with springs. And there is a huge gap underneath the heatsink and PCB, and I grabed mobo on the heatsink's corner....

[Leonard]

The chip itself is very small, and the heatsink holds only with 2 plastic pins with springs. And there is a huge gap underneath the heatsink and PCB, and I grabed mobo on the heatsink's corner....

So the 2 plastic pins with springs AKA push pins are still attached to the chipset heatsink right? 

 

Removing the existing thermal epoxy will be very tricky and i do not recommend doing it by a beginner or advanced PC DIYer. So just get more thermal epoxy, put a small thin layer on the existing thermal epoxy and then place the heatsink back on and try to gently attach/push back in the push pins back into the motherboard and let it dry then test for temperatures.

[Mike Jetson]

Ok, so I got it fixed!

 

I bought a scalpel and some thermal glue.

That old thermal glue I remooved with scalpel with no problem, it went PERFECT!

Then I applyed new thermal glue, and left for some time, but I wasnt sure how thermal glue spreads. So after some time I remooved heatsink from the chipset again, and saw, that all the glue was spread out around chipset, but there was practicly none on the chipset itself.

So I cleaned thermal glue and applyed a regular TIM instead.

 

In the end, everything is fine now.

 

[Mike Jetson]

Ok, I'm woundering now. My chipset apers to have no temperature sensor. Is it gets hot then overclocking? And maybe I should use that thermal glue instead of regular. TIm?

[Mike Jetson]

Any one else?