How to remove all three heatsinks from Gigabyte 78LMT USB3 Rev 5.0

[galib20]

Hi everyone!
I removed the CPU heat-sink and applied thermal compound. But I am unable to figure out how to remove the other two heat-sinks. The screws have some sort of plastic on the inner side, which is spring-loaded, and the back of the motherboard has plastic jacks, holding the screws in place. I would be real glad, if somebody can provide any assistance.

Thanks and Regards,
Galib

 

[Karadjgne]

You really don't want to remove motherboard heatsinks. They don't use paste, they use thermal tape to attach to the underlying capacitors and mosfets. Trying to remove this tape can ruin the solder connection to the motherboard, basically destroying the functionality of the board.

 

[galib20]

You really don't want to remove motherboard heatsinks. They don't use paste, they use thermal tape to attach to the underlying capacitors and mosfets. Trying to remove this tape can ruin the solder connection to the motherboard, basically destroying the functionality of the board.

Thanks. I think, when you are referring to motherboard heatsinks, it means the non-cpu sinks. I removed the cpu heatsink, and found, that there was no tape, and the compound had completely dried up.
I had to do all this, as my pc was running very slow, and after thermal compound application, there was some improvement. Since the other two heatsinks were a little loose, and I ASSUMED, that they too have thermal compound, I wanted to do the servicing in one go. But if you insist that the thermal tape should not be tugged at, I will avoid trying to remove the sinks . But still.....

 

[Karadjgne]

Typically there is only 2 heatsinks that require maintenance with repasting. The CPU and GPU. Although the gpu usually doesn't require it because upgrades after 3ish years is so prevalent, and ppl tend to keep gpus intact. The cpu cooler is different. This gets changed, upgraded, messed with considerably more often. Every other heatsink does not have paste, it'll have thermal tape, like a double sided sticky tape. This is used because capacitors and mosfets etc are so small, paste would literally run off the sides and create an awful mess with no real way of cleaning.

And no, the heatsinks should no be loose, if they are you may need to replace the tape

 

[galib20]

Thanks for your help!

 

[galib20]

You really don't want to remove motherboard heatsinks. They don't use paste, they use thermal tape to attach to the underlying capacitors and mosfets. Trying to remove this tape can ruin the solder connection to the motherboard, basically destroying the functionality of the board.

Many thanks!