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Whew! Just installed Thermalright XP-90!

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I had to get that aftermarket backplate for it to work on my ASRock 939DualSATA, but it works fine. My idle temp with the stock HS/F was around 36/37C right not its 28C. Nice. I friggin' bent some pins on the CPU getting the stock HS/F off. The dang CPU was stuck to the HS! Came out of the socket that way. I'm suprised this sucker still works. To say I almost had a heart attack would be an understatement. Just be advised if you attempt the same thing!
 
The same thing happen to me when I was pulling out my 1GB of memory to install 2 GB's I also have a XP 90. As I was pulling it off. the paste cause it to stick to the bottom of the XP90. It pulled my cpu out with it, before I could open the latch for it. Scared the hell out of me, I bent like 20 pins on one corner of the cpu. Took me like 30mins to bend them all back.
 
I guess if I had destroyed the CPU, I would've just had to get another one.... an X2 maybe. 🙂
 
wait, you needed to buy something else to get the xp-90 to work with the asrock dual mobo? doesn't the xp-90 come with everything needed? i'm asking because i might be doing the same upgrade soon.
 
Never force or yank the HS off. Place a cardboard dam around the sink to contain the heat and protect the other board componets. Heat-up the HS with a hair dryer set on high, with a gloved hand twist and tilt the HS. Might have to try more than once.

Never used this tip.
For strightening bent pins a 0.5mm pencil (w/o lead of course) will fit over the pins well and being that the pencil is long will give a good idea of how stright you got them again.



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Originally posted by: beserker15
wait, you needed to buy something else to get the xp-90 to work with the asrock dual mobo? doesn't the xp-90 come with everything needed? i'm asking because i might be doing the same upgrade soon.
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For the ASRock Dual SATA and some Gigabyte mobos, you need a special backplate to get the retention module that comes with the XP-90 on. It cost like 3-4 bucks so its not a big deal. The pain in the butt comes when you install- cuz you gotta take the mobo out to do it. Which means your taking your whole PC apart basically....
 
Backing plates really suck on the good heatsinks. I'm switching back to AMD and will probably be going with a XP-90. Its nice to see its only 360gram compared to my present 590 gram sp94.
 
OOPS ... Was going to get an XP90 for my Asrock board, but I think this thread just cybertalked me out of it. I had read how easy the XP90 was to install, but worried about the removal of the stock HSF, as it was tightly held onto the CPU.
 
Originally posted by: CalamitySymphony
So now you learned you need to have the CPU warm before trying to take off the HSF right? Especially with AS5 on it.
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I had no problem taking off my XP-90 when reseating it, and I did it several times with AS5 on.
 
In response to the post above that said heat the HS w/ a hair dryer to remove the HS.... would using a CPU burn program be sufficient for heating up AS5 for safely removing the HS ???...
 
In no way is it difficult to remove a heatsink, i have done it using generic TIMs and AS5, i just run S&M 100% load for 10 minutes before and it comes of sooooooooo easy
 
Originally posted by: ChiBOY83
In response to the post above that said heat the HS w/ a hair dryer to remove the HS.... would using a CPU burn program be sufficient for heating up AS5 for safely removing the HS ???...
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The one time that I had to heat a Zalman 7000 the rig was apart=slid-out MB tray.
I just didn't feel like hooking it all up again. Yes a stress test will heat up the sink for
removal. A hair dryer on high will work but I used a cheap heat gun from Harbor Freight.
They are on sale now for $10. The 0.5mm pencil trick for strightening pins was picked up
in this forum. Hope I never have to use it on one of my CPUs.


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I have this board and am considering this cooler.

How did you remove the push pins from the board? Can they be put back if you want to restore to the original condition?
 
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