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"KalmX AMD Edition" - RADEON RX 6400 Passive Cooling Mod

FlexxRocket

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I Made it worse. Either the solder Paste was too dry or i removed it too early from the oven. The solder Paste was very Hard to Push out of the syringe. This is How it looked ( i put a Bit More there after the Photo ) . Then I put the whole thing in the oven and After around 8-10 mins at max( 220 degree celcius) i removed it from the oven to cool down After that it was very easy to Break apart.Is there anything i can do now , like trying it again at longer cooking duration?
 

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I Made it worse. Either the solder Paste was too dry or i removed it too early from the oven. The solder Paste was very Hard to Push out of the syringe. This is How it looked ( i put a Bit More there after the Photo ) . Then I put the whole thing in the oven and After around 8-10 mins at max( 220 degree celcius) i removed it from the oven to cool down After that it was very easy to Break apart.Is there anything i can do now , like trying it again at longer cooking duration?

You can use a little more solder paste and try again.

8 to 10 minutes is not enough since the copper heatsink is quite massive. I estimate maybe 20 minutes. To make sure, add some more paste near the edge of the copper plate so you can see when it melts and starts to look shiny...
 
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FlexxRocket

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First i put heat resistand tape around it :
Then it was in the oven for around 22min:
This was the result : ( Its a Bit dirty from the tape but i will clean it Today with cleaning alcohol)
But there is a silver seam all around the copper plate and Its solid)
 

FlexxRocket

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i realized that also After Soldering😩
But maybe Its somehow cleanable
Edit: Its Not
 
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