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Help me remove this damn hsf

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BlueRacer

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i got a ti4200 and the hsf is held on with some thermal paste... no clips at all. i tried to gently pull it off but it was stuck on there so i ran quake 3 for about 2 hours in hopes of heating up the paste but it didnt make a difference. its must be glue because its so stong. ive read about putting in the freezer but ill do that as a last option... any other way of taking it off safely?
 
It's epoxy. I've tried taking the heatsink off my old and disused riva TnT, and ended up taking it off with a chizel. A bit of the black ceramic covering the GPU chipped off too; revealing transistors underneath. No way it would work now, but it's just an old TnT. I don't think they use that kind of ultra-mega-super-heavy duty epoxy on video cards anymore. An old Pentium 1 I wanted to use for a keychain had the same stuff on top of it. It took me a WHILE to scrape it off with an x-acto knife. In the process, I never was able to even scratch the surface of the Pentium's PCB, no matter how hard I tried. It's harder than the steel my knife was made of. You can't drill through it either.

Oh yeah, and your best bet of taking off the HSF is to relentelssly destroy it with a belt-sander, or something. Just keep sanding it untill it's all dust.

I'm not kidding. Unless, of course, you want to try chizeling it off; but then there's always a risk of taking off a part of the core with it.
 
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