Why would ANYONE Delid THREADRIPPER? - Vanity IHS Installation
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,755 words · ~8 min read
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so along with their review samples of the ryzen threadripper 1950x AMD sent
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to uh looks like 250 publications one of the
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coolest pieces of swag of all time this
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right here in a custom acrylic magnetic
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case is a vanity ryzen Threadripper
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with an engraving of the name of the publication so in our case that's Linus
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tech tips on the integrated heat spreader there's only one small problem
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this doesn't work so
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today's objective is to remove the vanity spreader from
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this one and put it back together with a working
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1950x
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sennheiser's pxc 550 wireless headphones feature up to 30 hours of battery life
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noise guard hybrid adaptive noise cancellation and more check them out at
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the link below so for our experiment we're going to
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need a few things the vanity processor
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a working processor with the carrier plate
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we're going to need a threadripper compatible cooler
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when we fire it up to find out if it still works so we're going to use an nhu
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14 tr4 sp3 from Noctua we're going to
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need a threadripper board so we've got an rog zenith extreme
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and finally this
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piece of beautiful artwork from der
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bauer all right dare bauer okay look my
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german's not that good this is the one prototype that i'm aware of of a thread
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ripper d-litting tool i'm also gonna need one of these
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because the integrated heat spreader is soldered we're gonna have to melt the
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solder in order to remove it all right
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so let's put this baby on here number 39 of 250
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you know i probably wouldn't be willing to uh to do this to it if AMD had given
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me the number one that i deserve instead of number 39.
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i wonder who got number one where are the heating elements
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you know what yeah let's uh fine let's just put it here
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so we want to throw this in
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uh because we don't really want to reach exactly 355
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we want to get a little lower than that about 15 degrees celsius less than that
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that's when the solder on the CPU is actually going to melt and that's when
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we're going to be able to pop it off ah hold on wait
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i just thought of something there's fingerprints on the CPU right now
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i don't know if these gloves are going to be good enough but it shouldn't be that hot yet
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if we bake this thing now it's probably going to like bake them
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onto it because of the grease and the oils
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shoot
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perfect okay i heard a little noise
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um but i'm not 100 sure what it means
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unfortunately this oven doesn't have a readout for what the actual temperature
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is inside it's possible that it's about 100 degrees celsius
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right now uh what the crap no it's also
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possible that it's 250
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uh-oh wait what what temperature did i want it at okay we might have thoroughly
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this thing oh this is fahrenheit hold on how could it possibly be oh
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because of the heating elements right above it the radiant heat okay
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well it's do or die time with this
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is this going to melt if we move fast enough
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oh this is making me nervous go
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oh my god look at the way it's mashing the pcb
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there oh wow this is the uh
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be all and end all of failed experiments right now yeah i don't think it shifted
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it one bit okay so new developments we
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broke off the screws over tightening it last time
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sheared them right off i drilled them out i put new ones in
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those ones sheared off while i was trying to put them in because i didn't have quite the right threading blah blah
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blah so we've got a new system
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i grabbed some leftover pieces of 16k gaming
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cool we are just gonna like self-tap this out tap this
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okay sweet let's give it the full heat um
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so we may have to wait another five or ten minutes or so
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there it is oh there it is there it is there it is
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okay oh look at that
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oh it's beautiful oh why did i just drop that that was the good sign
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okay so
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here's our dummy chip so i want to get the hunks off
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quickly while it's still soft here remember guys
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there's nothing to damage here we're just practicing this is pure practice what do you think
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pella should i do it should i risk a thousand dollar processor and you only
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live once right this is it the real chip goes in now while i'm
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waiting for that actually i can uh work on my technique for removing the
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silicone glue i really like what AMD's done they've put
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like some kind of glue or resin or something over all of these inner
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uh surface mount components here means that if you slip a little bit you're very
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unlikely to knock one off i've done that you know what that's a lot of pressure
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i'm putting on right now come on you vicious bastard oh there it
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is there it is theoretically working chip
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okay so now come on come up
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now is the optimal time to get that off
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but i also don't want to spill it so what i'm going to do
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is i'm going to flip it upside down oh wow as soon as i touch it it
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solidifies oh no that one came off clean see see how easy they come off while
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it's nice and warm especially if it's not dead
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which there's a good chance it's not so here's kind of a funny idea i see
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diamond thermal compound is well known to be fairly abrasive so i won't be
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using it on the top of the ihs but check this out
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look how much it shined up that die just like that
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it's like two seconds so it takes off this uh
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takes off this solder like nobody's business i don't know which way this
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goes on so that's a thing and i guess it doesn't really matter
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oh wait wait well i put a little more pressure on it
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than i wanted we are yoloing this
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no i wouldn't recommend this yes i'm doing it anyway
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we're getting to a point now where if i accidentally slip with it it'll move the
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ihs
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so i forgot about this stage which means
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there's some drying time involved let me just find out how long that takes
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to dry this is actually a broken carrier but i
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can't find our replacement ones so yo
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please don't stop if you ask it nicely it won't stop
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it slipped okay carrier frame
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is as long as we get the CPU down
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but it doesn't really matter that the carrier frame is kind of
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i don't think oh moment of truth man
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moment of truth does it work
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does the vanity CPU work
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i don't remember the application method for threadripper so
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we're going to do it oh what a mess
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oh terrible
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CPU
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here we go memory CPU
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it's still on CPU oh it's still on CPU
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oh it's updating no shut up not now
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oh this is not a good sign code 0d
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post error
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okay so what's code 0d
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it's like the one thing that i could possibly want in a motherboard manual
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postcode 0d on rampage extreme blah blah blah
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disable asm storage off-road yeah no i
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really don't think that's gonna help me one thing is that i only have one eight
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pin CPU connector plugged in and it is recommended to have two for ripper
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shoot that is not a good sign
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okay why were we getting further before i forgot to plug in the HDMI connector
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zero d post error
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no way it's up
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32 gigs RAM detected
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it's up the vanity CPU works
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you have got to be freaking kidding me
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thanks for watching guys this is actually incredible
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