Glued on Notebook CPU and GPU?

[GLangston]

I have a notebook motherboard I would like to pull the GPU and the CPU out of (the CPU in question is an Intel Atom N270). However, it seems as the dies are glued into place. There was what appeared to be hotglue holding it in place on each of the corners. I removed it, but the dies do not seem to want to budge. Any suggestions on removing the processors?

[iRileyx]

It's probably soldered on, why would you want to remove them? it'll be hard to re-use them.

[GLangston]

2 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

It's probably soldered on, why would you want to remove them? it'll be hard to re-use them.

In all honesty, it’s out of sheer curiosity. I thought perhaps I could reuse the dies in a better board and (attempt to) overclock them, mainly just for fun.

[iRileyx]

Just now, GLangston said:

In all honesty, it’s out of sheer curiosity. I thought perhaps I could reuse the dies in a better board and (attempt to) overclock them, mainly just for fun.

Unless youve got some pretty good soldering skills you won't be re-using them on another board  

[FuzzyLogic]

16 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

Unless youve got some pretty good soldering skills you won't be re-using them on another board  

Aren't you supposed to use some sort of heat gun on BGA CPUs?

[iRileyx]

4 minutes ago, thegreengamers said:

Aren't you supposed to use some sort of heat gun on BGA CPUs?

All Atom chips are soldered IIRC, cause they're meant to be embedded CPU's.

 

Or do ya mean the heat guns just to loosen the solder?

[FuzzyLogic]

27 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

All Atom chips are soldered IIRC, cause they're meant to be embedded CPU's.

 

Or do ya mean the heat guns just to loosen the solder?

I was talking about taking the CPU off the board. And some Atoms use regular thermal paste, like mine! It's a shame the CPU could barely run Linux though...

[GLangston]

2 hours ago, thegreengamers said:

I was talking about taking the CPU off the board. And some Atoms use regular thermal paste, like mine! It's a shame the CPU could barely run Linux though...

Alrighty. Well, thanks to you guys anyway.