removing ramsinks

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Luca25

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for ramsinks applied to GPU memory with supplied thermal tape, can one just yank them off (Carefully, of course)?

or, is one now stuck with a bunch of copper on the chips as one would be with say, artic silver adhesive
 
Try sliding a razor blade under them as much as you can and gently try twisting and pulling them off.
 
Heat them up first (either with a blowdryer, or run an intensive program to make them hot), then gently twist and pull.
 
^^ yes.. warm them with a blow drier for sure.. that helps... then use a pair of needle-nose pliars to pull them off... grab on of the prongs and turn the sink sideways a bit, then it should come right off. :)

FYI - if you use thermal epoxy, just leave the sinks on.. don't risk pulling a chip off. that stuff is essentially periment.
 
heating them up is the best way. if they wont come off dont force it or your gonna end up with more than just a ramsink in your hand when your done(I lost my geforce 5700U that way).
 
Lol I've never had any ramsinks that STAYED ON let alone were tough to twist off haha.
 
if you use... AS epoxy they are on for good... i used it on my 7800gtx... i will never get them off
 
revenant said:
^^ yes.. warm them with a blow drier for sure.. that helps... then use a pair of needle-nose pliars to pull them off... grab on of the prongs and turn the sink sideways a bit, then it should come right off. :)

FYI - if you use thermal epoxy, just leave the sinks on.. don't risk pulling a chip off. that stuff is essentially periment.
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pff forget a blow dryer, just do some 3dmark06 runs, take card out immediately, remove heatsinks. That does the trick fine.

And I agree that as long as they're only with thermal tape they'll come right off. Just DO NOT try to pull them off if they're on with epoxy...you'll probably take the ram chip off instead.
 
Sniper X said:
heating them up is the best way. if they wont come off dont force it or your gonna end up with more than just a ramsink in your hand when your done(I lost my geforce 5700U that way).
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i just lost a 6800 Gt that way
 
Any of you folks still have the card that you ripped the chip off of??? I'd be interested in those if you are willing to part with them....


Lemme know via PM
 
can you throw a picture of the chip that was removed and the location on the card it came from...


I'm thinking I can fix that (was in rework and repair for Plexus Corp. for about 7-8 years). I can fix for you for a nominal fee, or I can buy the card for cheap, cheap, cheap, and fix myself and resell...

Up to you guys... thought I would throw the option out there.
 
Lol i dont think you coulda fixed mine, while most of the stuff that broke was solder there was one side of the chip that had a decent size chunk of the pc board with all the copper etching and such from the top layer of the board. It was messed up pretty bad, and once i got my x850 off of ebay i threw it away. So its pretty much gone for good.
 
you'd be surprised at what is fixable. Even complete holes through the PCB are fixable to a certain extent.

The only thing that really cannot be fixed are pulled barrels from a plated through-hole. Can be fixed to look pretty, but cannot guarantee the circuits in the layers are severed beyond repair.
 
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