BasardI've known about SL for a while now.... but do they offer soldered heat spreaders and leather trim?

delidded processors, and processor that can reach a specif OC, thats all i know, soldered IHS makes no sense to sold online, also not even processors with soldered IHS, since is cheaper, practical and also safer to sell delidded and repasted processor with better thermals than soldered and a bit moar expensive processor with soldering craps... my two cents,

evernessinceLet's leave soldering anything to the professionals. Aftermarket solutions that require soldering to the die is just asking for trouble.

But it may never come to the market (all-in-one soldered CPU/coldplate). This is why I have taken matters into my own hands.

It would be nice if AMD/Intel can do limited production runs with something like this, soldered coldplate attached to the CPU/GPU. This is not just about getting rid off thermal paste/compound altogether, but long term stable temperature performance. ie, it will be more or less have the same temperature many years down the road, virtually no degradation.

Melvis

Yes it will void your warranty. Practice makes perfection, especially if you want to solder a coldplate to the CPU. If & when I try this it will be done on old CPUs first.

I think a hotplate is needed to solder the CPU to this product. I have a full infrared workstation (Aoyue BGA9000) & I just got a great idea how to solder a CPU to coldplate. It's just hit me how to solve this problem. This is experimental as I have never used a workstation to solder a coldplate to a CPU.

EDIT: I have just order some Indium, thermal paste/compound could become obsolete for me in the next few days. Watch this space, it's going to be interesting, because if successful it will appear also on a R9 Nano.

I found this video on youtube to give me an idea what I am dealing with for the first time (Indium)
This should be easy for me to solder & desolder CPUs as I have already done BGA CPU soldering/reballing, so I should get the job done first time with no errors.

Anyone that does BGA soldering/desoldering should be able to do this without errors first time & every time without errors, & I know there are a few of you out there.

Hotplate does seem to be the perfect tool for this, but I will be using a workstation. So all those CPUs/APUs out there that are not soldered, can be soldered. I have two methods how to solder CPUs, I will test both, then practice removing IHS, then I will move to coldplate/CPU soldering.

Still awaiting Indium to arrive.

EDIT: The reason I say this should be easy for users that do BGA soldering is because, you are already dealing with temperatures around 175c-220c when you are soldering-in BGA CPUs or BGA components. So I expect perfection "first time".

I should also make you aware the soldered route also has a higher conductivity of heat, better than Liquid Metal Compound. This has already shown-up when I did the IHS to Heatsink direct soldering & I expect further improvements when die is also soldered.