After multiple attempts of trying to budge this IHS with dental floss, it became a no-go process. So after that I decided to use hardnrg's traditional method of the STANLEY KNIFE.

15 minute process and ta da!

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congrats and hope it works, if it does overclock the hell out of it for us.

Nice Job

you do know with the floss method your supposed to make a small enitial cut a balde then start using the floss

you'll also need atleast two people for the floss method since it requires a decent amount of pressure

so how are the temp differences?

What chip was that? I thought that most P4s would be ruined if you try to remove the IHS...

mine was...i don't know why...it wasn't glued on or anything =(

Did that with mine just a minute ago. Used a razor blade from a box cutter I had lying around. Took < 1 minute. No scratches, no bent pcb or lost pins, just a 4*c cooler cpu.

It's a Northwood, 512k, 400, 2.6 stock. I'll see if I can get it to clock any higher than 3.2!

Edit- Best thing about mine, is that I have the CNPS7000B-Cu. Since it doesn't rely directly on the cpu standoff to make contact, I didn't have to file anything down. Just screw the screws into thier holes (no pun...). Can't really over tighten it either.

nice... glad it wasn't soldered/epoxied on there lol

Pentium 4 Northwood 1.8ghz 512kb cache etc ..

Turns out I kinda gashed a left bottom corner of the core as you can see.



Now I have to modify the retention bracket for the cooler to make some contact. I don't know if the CPU is still alive since I hurt it bit but lets hope it works

and lets say if it doesn't work... could I re-glue on the IHS and put it in it's original box and sell it?

Iiiiits dead...

and would be a big no no to sell one, legal actions may arise.

That's messed up to try to reattach the IHS and sell it.

Like, SERIOUSLY messed up to do.

you'd get more money for it with the ihs removed since you've done all the hard work for someone

Heh, not if it won't boot...

it might be fine, i dropped a 1700+ when i opened the box and cracked it like that and that chip OCed to 1.9ghz on the crappy mb it was paired with.

a little nick on the side of the processor is perfectly fine. however it will just run hotter.


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there's a picture of my t-bird 1100mhz processor. you can see how banged up the core is. however it ran rock-hard-stable at 1400mhz, however idle was about 42c on some zalman cooler. this was about 4 years ago, so i don't even know.


but when i tried it with my p4 2.4c that would run up to 3ghz easy, i never got it to boot. ever again. i have no clue why =( it makes me sad. and the core is perfectly fine.


but atleast i'll have a nice, nice keychain =)