How to remove the double sided tape (1)
Overclocker 22 March 2002

I think most of us have faced the same problems many times. You bought a brand new mainboard and discovered that it didn't overclock well. In fact, your mileage might differ depending on what board you choose and other possibilities include ram used, psu, heatsinks, system cooling etc.

While most of us likes to overclock, some users have found system instability due to overheating of the chipset. It has been more or less confirmed, formerly by Bxboard.com's webmaster Andy Drake that putting on a heatsink+fan will cool down the chipset and there by attaining stability and high overclockability.

A number of times when we received review boards, we have a hard time removing the heatsink on top of the chipset. This board we used in this example also has the same problem. It is first fastened by two clips diagonally and the manufacturer used a double side tape to stick the chipset's heatsink onto the chipset. While this really cut costs but does it serve the purpose of having the heatsink/fan ? Would it be better and save some costs if the chipset is left without a heatsink on top?

To remove the heatsink, we use a flat head screw driver and insert it underneath the heatsink, lever it up using the DIMM slots (protect your dimm slots using some sponge or paper). It is easy and it will not damage your chipset. The photo below shows how does the base of the chipset's heatsink looks like after removing it.

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