Vrm, mosfet, plx heat pipe mod.

[Mick Naughty]

Kind of a odd one here. 

 

The heat pipe can’t be punctured I assume, but I need the heat sink removed from the lowest portion above the gpu. 

 

I need the room to put my watercooled back plate back on this gpu after swapping them into the other rig. 

 

Ive never messed with one of these that actually have a heat pipe, wondering how it’s actually attached. I assume it isn’t plug welded, just soldered maybe. 

 

Its gonna be a long process to get it out as I doubt the tray will give me fool access to the screws. 

 

Basicaly what be the best way to remove it?

 

Got a Dremel and some cutting wheels, figured that would be best compared to a jig saw or something like that. 

[Bananasplit_00]

if you can get away with it, id just take the dremmel to the heatsink untill it fitts. if you puncture the heatpipe that heatpipe is dead pretty much. the heatsink is stuck to the heatpipe with some sort of solder probably, like you do with plumbing id guess. 

[W-L]

6 hours ago, Mick Naughty said:

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You can try to remove the heatsink from the heatpipe as said if you puncture it, it looses it's cooling ability. Most I've seen are swaged into place or use an interference fit, in some cases they might use a thermally conductive epoxy. You might be able to free if the heatpipe if  it's just swaged into place by cutting the heatsink to relieve it and prying it apart.