so along with their review samples of the ryzen threadripper 1950x AMD sent
to uh looks like 250 publications one of the
coolest pieces of swag of all time this
right here in a custom acrylic magnetic
case is a vanity ryzen Threadripper
with an engraving of the name of the publication so in our case that's Linus
tech tips on the integrated heat spreader there's only one small problem
this doesn't work so
today's objective is to remove the vanity spreader from
this one and put it back together with a working
1950x
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the link below so for our experiment we're going to
need a few things the vanity processor
a working processor with the carrier plate
we're going to need a threadripper compatible cooler
when we fire it up to find out if it still works so we're going to use an nhu
14 tr4 sp3 from Noctua we're going to
need a threadripper board so we've got an rog zenith extreme
and finally this
piece of beautiful artwork from der
bauer all right dare bauer okay look my
german's not that good this is the one prototype that i'm aware of of a thread
ripper d-litting tool i'm also gonna need one of these
because the integrated heat spreader is soldered we're gonna have to melt the
solder in order to remove it all right
so let's put this baby on here number 39 of 250
you know i probably wouldn't be willing to uh to do this to it if AMD had given
me the number one that i deserve instead of number 39.
i wonder who got number one where are the heating elements
you know what yeah let's uh fine let's just put it here
so we want to throw this in
uh because we don't really want to reach exactly 355
we want to get a little lower than that about 15 degrees celsius less than that
that's when the solder on the CPU is actually going to melt and that's when
we're going to be able to pop it off ah hold on wait
i just thought of something there's fingerprints on the CPU right now
i don't know if these gloves are going to be good enough but it shouldn't be that hot yet
if we bake this thing now it's probably going to like bake them
onto it because of the grease and the oils
shoot
perfect okay i heard a little noise
um but i'm not 100 sure what it means
unfortunately this oven doesn't have a readout for what the actual temperature
is inside it's possible that it's about 100 degrees celsius
right now uh what the crap no it's also
possible that it's 250
uh-oh wait what what temperature did i want it at okay we might have thoroughly
this thing oh this is fahrenheit hold on how could it possibly be oh
because of the heating elements right above it the radiant heat okay
well it's do or die time with this
is this going to melt if we move fast enough
oh this is making me nervous go
oh my god look at the way it's mashing the pcb
there oh wow this is the uh
be all and end all of failed experiments right now yeah i don't think it shifted
it one bit okay so new developments we
broke off the screws over tightening it last time
sheared them right off i drilled them out i put new ones in
those ones sheared off while i was trying to put them in because i didn't have quite the right threading blah blah
blah so we've got a new system
i grabbed some leftover pieces of 16k gaming
cool we are just gonna like self-tap this out tap this
okay sweet let's give it the full heat um
so we may have to wait another five or ten minutes or so
there it is oh there it is there it is there it is
okay oh look at that
oh it's beautiful oh why did i just drop that that was the good sign
okay so
here's our dummy chip so i want to get the hunks off
quickly while it's still soft here remember guys
there's nothing to damage here we're just practicing this is pure practice what do you think
pella should i do it should i risk a thousand dollar processor and you only
live once right this is it the real chip goes in now while i'm
waiting for that actually i can uh work on my technique for removing the
silicone glue i really like what AMD's done they've put
like some kind of glue or resin or something over all of these inner
uh surface mount components here means that if you slip a little bit you're very
unlikely to knock one off i've done that you know what that's a lot of pressure
i'm putting on right now come on you vicious bastard oh there it
is there it is theoretically working chip
okay so now come on come up
now is the optimal time to get that off
but i also don't want to spill it so what i'm going to do
is i'm going to flip it upside down oh wow as soon as i touch it it
solidifies oh no that one came off clean see see how easy they come off while
it's nice and warm especially if it's not dead
which there's a good chance it's not so here's kind of a funny idea i see
diamond thermal compound is well known to be fairly abrasive so i won't be
using it on the top of the ihs but check this out
look how much it shined up that die just like that
it's like two seconds so it takes off this uh
takes off this solder like nobody's business i don't know which way this
goes on so that's a thing and i guess it doesn't really matter
oh wait wait well i put a little more pressure on it
than i wanted we are yoloing this
no i wouldn't recommend this yes i'm doing it anyway
we're getting to a point now where if i accidentally slip with it it'll move the
ihs
so i forgot about this stage which means
there's some drying time involved let me just find out how long that takes
to dry this is actually a broken carrier but i
can't find our replacement ones so yo
please don't stop if you ask it nicely it won't stop
it slipped okay carrier frame
is as long as we get the CPU down
but it doesn't really matter that the carrier frame is kind of
i don't think oh moment of truth man
moment of truth does it work
does the vanity CPU work
i don't remember the application method for threadripper so
we're going to do it oh what a mess
oh terrible
CPU
here we go memory CPU
it's still on CPU oh it's still on CPU
oh it's updating no shut up not now
oh this is not a good sign code 0d
post error
okay so what's code 0d
it's like the one thing that i could possibly want in a motherboard manual
postcode 0d on rampage extreme blah blah blah
disable asm storage off-road yeah no i
really don't think that's gonna help me one thing is that i only have one eight
pin CPU connector plugged in and it is recommended to have two for ripper
shoot that is not a good sign
okay why were we getting further before i forgot to plug in the HDMI connector
zero d post error
no way it's up
32 gigs RAM detected
it's up the vanity CPU works
you have got to be freaking kidding me
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even though the idle temps were like 55 there's like 60 load temps are 72 and
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