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How to remove video card heat sink

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jridder

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I am trying to install a blue orb, but am having trouble removing the heat sink. I have read dozens and dozens of pages, tried the freezing method, using a screwdriver, a razor blade, but none of them are working well. The heat sink is expoied on, its a inno3d geforce2 pro 64mb. I dont want to just resort to brute force, is there any trick out there I may have missed?

Thanks all.
 
Hairdryer, patience, and great care. Remember if it breaks you are SOL and will have to buy a new video card.

The heat might allow the epoxy to soften up enough to pry to HS and Fan off. I haven't tried it, but I read about it somewhere. I can't find the link though.
 
Don't know what kind of stuff they stick that on with. On my GF3 ti200 (VT), I just played games for an hour with it overclocked pretty high (but still stable) to heat it up. I then took the card out, popped the pins holding the sink on, and then gently twisted from side to side. At first, it wouldn't come off, but then it started to give a bit and then it just popped off. I just needed to scrape some of the thermal gunk off with a screwdriver and use some acetone and alcohol to try and get the rest of it off the GPU core.

Jman
 
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