NB/SB Heatsink Question

Nothgrin · Mar 21, 2009

Has anyone ripped off their NB/SB heatsinks before? For example my Asus P5E WS Evolution http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131300 has Mosfets,NB,SB all connnected under the same heatsink with a giant heatpipe. I haven't tried to take it off for myself yet but has anyone taken one of these off before? And if what kind of thermal material was it? Thermal sticker or paste?

I plan on removing all of them and installing TEC's to cool them down. But before I do all of that I need to make sure that if I do take it off I can put it back if I need for some reason.

Thanks

Darknova · Mar 21, 2009

I've never done it on that particular board, but I've done it on many boards.

They're either held on with push-pins or screws, just un-do them, use a cleaner to get rid of the crappy thermal paste (generally pink thick stuff) and reapply some new stuff, preferably something ceramic-based. Pop the heatsinks back on and you're away

qamulek · Mar 21, 2009

I have on my asus board. The mosfets had a thermal pad(rubberish) while the NB/SB were glued on with thermal epoxy(adhesive?). Whatever it was made it hard to take the NB/SB heatsink off, and it made it very hard to clean up the thermal stuff that was left behind :mad:

. Be careful with the heatpipes though since they are very easy to bend.

Nothgrin · Mar 22, 2009

Yeah I was worried that if the whole heatsink is glued I could snap the heatpipe and that would be a bigger problem because my motherboard isn't fully waterproof yet.

viczulis · Mar 22, 2009

Yea I took off on my Asus Rampage I had to heat up with a hairdryer to get loose. I just did N & S bridge left mosfets.

Processor	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 C1 @ 3.83GHz
Motherboard	Asus P5E64 WS Evolution 0802
Cooling	Sunbeamtech CR-CCTF Core Contact Freezer 120MM + 400W TEC
Memory	Corsair Dominator DDR3 1800(PC3 14400) 4GB
Video Card(s)	BFG NVidia GTX 260 (216 SP)
Storage	Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 SAS 300GB (x2) 15K.6 SAS 300GB (x1) + Adaptec 2405 SAS RAID Controller
Display(s)	LG 24" W2452T + LG 23" W2353V
Case	Thermaltake Armor VA8003BWS Black
Audio Device(s)	Creative Labs X-Fi Professional Titanium
Power Supply	Thermaltake Toughpower 700W + 2x 400W 12V Meanwell Power Supplys

Processor	AMD FX 8320 @ 4GHz
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 rev1
Cooling	Corsair H70
Memory	4 x 4GB DDR3 Ripjawz 1600Mhz
Video Card(s)	Sapphire Vapor-X AMD R9 280X
Storage	1 x 500GB Samsung Evo 850, 1 x 500GB Vrap Data Drive, 3 x 2TB Seagate, 1 x 1TB Samsung F1
Display(s)	3 x DGM IPS-2402WDH
Case	Coolermaster HAF X
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Coolermaster 1000W Silent Pro M
Mouse	Logitech G502
Keyboard	Logitech G510
Software	Windows 10 Pro x64

Processor	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 C1 @ 3.83GHz
Motherboard	Asus P5E64 WS Evolution 0802
Cooling	Sunbeamtech CR-CCTF Core Contact Freezer 120MM + 400W TEC
Memory	Corsair Dominator DDR3 1800(PC3 14400) 4GB
Video Card(s)	BFG NVidia GTX 260 (216 SP)
Storage	Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 SAS 300GB (x2) 15K.6 SAS 300GB (x1) + Adaptec 2405 SAS RAID Controller
Display(s)	LG 24" W2452T + LG 23" W2353V
Case	Thermaltake Armor VA8003BWS Black
Audio Device(s)	Creative Labs X-Fi Professional Titanium
Power Supply	Thermaltake Toughpower 700W + 2x 400W 12V Meanwell Power Supplys

System Name	Bandit 7
Processor	Intel I7 920 (Havent OCd yet)
Motherboard	MSI X58 Pro
Cooling	Air Black Knight
Memory	6 Gbs of something
Video Card(s)	2 - XFX 5770s 1 Gb (waiting for a price drop to go higher)
Storage	1 - TB Sata Seagate
Display(s)	28" LCD
Case	CM HAF , G-5 mouse, Saitek Cyborg Keyboard
Audio Device(s)	Supreme FX 2 Audio Card
Power Supply	ABS Tagan BZ Series 900 W Modular
Software	64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium

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