Don't Remove Heat Spreaders on BGA based Memory

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Don't Remove Heat Spreaders on BGA based Memory

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Well a great memory module bit the dust tonight. This is the first kit of memory that I have ever broken by doing something to it myself. :evil:

The Poor Module:

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I've taken the heat spreader off of hundreds of modules and this was the first time I have ever pulled off an IC with the heat spreader. As you can tell in the picture above I pulled off two IC's on this module. This kit was the OCZ PC2-6400 EB Dual Channel Platinum Edition. Oh well at least it was a 2x 512mb kit and not a 2GB kit. :(
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ouch that sucks.

note to self- freeze anything before removing thermal paste/tape
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ouch :(
why do they have to use glue in the first place? :?
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was just thermal tape
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it looks like glue to me. it sure sticks like hell. must be pretty adhesive :shock:
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Re: Don't Remove Heat Spreaders on BGA based Memory

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Apoptosis wrote: Oh well at least it was a 2x 512mb kit and not a 2GB kit. :(
still, a waste of a damn good kit of DDR2....... ::heavy sigh:: :(
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oh well... it was worth it in the long run... found something interesting under one of those heat spreaders! Review is pending comments on what I found one of the kits.
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anything to do with the chips used? or the PCB? because the PCB from what I can see anyways looks like JEDEC standard......but the standard green can be deceiving I believe.
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