help!! QUAD 6700 with no IHS is this safe?
Forum Overclocking : Cooler and Heatsinks - help!! QUAD 6700 with no IHS is this safe?
there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY your C2D chip doesnt have an IHS.
IF you have a NON IHS C2D please have your friend PM me on how he took his off sucessfully.
ONLY AMD chips or OLD P4 chips can have there IHS removed safely. Intel uses a metal Sodder on the DIE directly to mount there IHS.
That is why i said ITS IMPOSSIBLE for you to have a non IHS QX. If it truely is a QX without IHS, then by god, go over to xtremesystems.org/forums and TELL US how you pulled it off. You'll be a legend on that forum if you pulled it off sucessfully.
As for now, i highly doubt your friend gave you a QX without an IHS. I think your getting something mixed up.
That shiny thing reflecting is the IHS. As i said its impossible to remove without breaking your DIE. Many have tried, a lot of dead X6800 chips are in the landfill as a result from it.
I think your friend either
1. is a genius at removing it
2. lied to you straight up saying its a QX. You might have a mobile C2D which naturally comes with an IHS missing.
heh... taco show me please 
I prefer my IHS nakked. So far from what i was reading, the sodder melts at around 90C. i think.
So you would need to heat the chip to 90C and then pop it off without cracking the DIE.
NICE.... lol... i dont think the owner would of sold a IHSless QX, to a beginner. That would be like me dropping my entire setup on my brother.
But yeah op, Taco is right, a QX should have 2 dies ontop of the PCB. If your thing is really IHSless, then you should see 2 dies if its a real QX
That may not be a bad idea to do so, you could actually make a fortune off it if you sell it to the right person. The fact that you are getting a mere 60 load on the qx is really showing how much of an impact removing the ihs has, I have seen quads run at 80 load on air cooling @3ghz, so you definitely got a nice deal out of getting an ihs less cpu, once you get a watercooler and chill it down to ambient temps close to load 8O (possible with the right radiator, block and pump)then you should oc that thing to india and see how far you can push it to show the real value of it, I wouldn't be surprised if you get over 4ghz stable
BTW, does your friend mind removing my ihs? 
Then I guess my job is done for tonight, peace of mind with a computer is one of the best things you can have
But for the watercooler, I have a few in mind, you could go the peltier route, but that would get things very complicated and since you are a newb right now (I aim to change that 
), I don't think that would be a great idea. We'll discuss this later, or tonight if you want
Done! 
was thinking that too...so i got it sitting flat now..lol
Wow, I've never heard of anyone stripping the IHS from a s775 CPU and the thing still working before.
I want one
Tell me about it, and amd solders the ihs on am2 cpus 
So now I wouldn't mind paying that dewd a good $10/$20 bucks for taking the ihs off (otherwise I'll just put the money towards a watercooler)
Dump the as5 for arctic ceramique, or at least mx-1, both outperform as5 consistantly, even the radioshack gunk beats as5, we at daclan tested that 8O
Anyways, I seriously would like to talk to the person that removed the ihs, I want to know if he has some special method to doing so so that the chip doesn't get damaged (as people are saying, you really have to be skilled to remove a soldered ihs) or if he just got lucky, because I will actually pay him if he can properly remove my soldered ihs safely with some reasurance that he knows his stuff 
I wouldn't quite call myself an expert, I'm not as old as you would expect 8O
But I seriously think you should buy the watercooler, you consider yourself lucky to have an ihsless qx, because those run extremely hot with the ihs, and also you could sell the watercooled qx on ebay for sooooooo much extra to a random newb, I'm guessing you could get an extra $300 to $400 if you customize it to be a top end computer that is watercooled 8O 
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