Re: Probably the craziest thing I have done...
2015/05/15 18:45:53
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So the lowest spot on the top of the IHS is 3.552mm thick (bottom of the PCB to the top of the IHS). The top of the die is at ~3.0776mm. The thickness of the solder is allegedly .3658mm, but I really wouldn't trust that number to be accurate to the real world. So if you take off about .45mm / .0177" then that should leave a very thin amount of IHS above the solder that can then be lapped down. You can take down the edge of the IHS as much as you want avoiding the capacitors.
EDIT: and it will start cutting into the retention wings because the die height is lower than those.
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