just received my Titan Vanessa heatsink from ray99mond.

and as usual, my hands was itchy and i started to bend the fins back into the correct position, so i noticed some fins was loose (not bonded with the heatpipe)

thus i started my stove and put on the heatsink to heat it up to the soldering melting point to begin soldering the heatsink

as this heatsink was fast as dissipating heat and wind was blowing from outside, i was loosing heat fast.....so i set the stove on max fire......

and then i started soldering......then i stood there for a while.....KABOOM !!!

my ear went deaf for a while, then i was like WTF, i got a cut on my abdomen and i look at the heatsink, and the heatpipe exploded !!!

looks like i've burned-in for too long until the heatpipe exploded man !!!

my mum thought i was dead coz it sounded like the stove exploded, and even the flame was put off by the explosion



here is the pic, there are actually 3 heatpipes folded in a " U " shape.
the middle heatpipe exploded due to extreme pressure, and it sounded like pipe bomb man





a section of the heatpipe that was totally launched at my stomach man




and my injured stomach, quite a deep cut, i was standing like around 60cm from the stove and it got me man
it aimed at me man





it also send out molten tin from the base coz the explosion was really a big boom!!
just look at the stove area, covered with bits of tin.





luckily i was wearin specs at tat time or i migh be blind de....look at the specs carefully !!!





and look at my pants, small little stars

after recovering from that, i've removed the useless section of the heatsink.

just look at the impact from the explosion !!! totally pushed the fins inwards !!




and i mounted it on my Mobo, it's still doing well, at 45°C at idle for Barton 2.2Ghz at 1.9V, even my SI-97 couldnt get such low temperatures

warning : heating heatpipe = pipe bomb

This post has been edited by AllnGap: Mar 30 2006, 04:52 PM

bro, if u drill a hole in a heatpipe, then u get a copper pipe, it's no longer a heatpipe.
heatpipe can transfer heat so well because it's pressurized

i wore the shirt after i got the cut, but it's scary

my didi is still in good shape, thanks for your concern

i think the temperature is more than 300°C, and it's impossible to get that temperature with the whole heatsink at that temperature on CPU alone

if u got heatsink which has got lousy soldering, this is the way to make it right.
find a base (copper/Alu) to heat up and then mount the HSF on the base.

heat up until it's able to melt solder, and then dont heat it up anymore, if you heat beyond that u get a big bang like i did

it should turn out fine if i had shut the stove way before it exploded.
i've put too much heat on the heatsink

terlalu hebat

maybe 1°C or 2°C ??? dont care anymore coz it's good enough

the secret in getting low temperature in this type of tower heatsink is to blow the fins and the base as well.
putting a fan at it's base could lower at least 2°C of the lowest u can get by mounting a fan on the fins.

itchy hands are dangerous man

This post has been edited by AllnGap: Apr 4 2006, 11:45 PM

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