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| [* black] With the fan out of the way, we're (temporarily) slowed in our journey to the center of the Ouya—the heat sink is soldered in place, obscuring the processor. | |
| [* icon_note] According to an Ouya engineer, solder was chosen over clips for mechanical strength, as they were (reasonably) worried about such a small console being knocked around or dropped. Soldering the heat sink to the motherboard proved for a much tougher design, better at surviving drop tests. | |
| - | [* black] No trouble for us, we pulled out our trusty soldering iron and desoldering wick and quickly free the heat sink. |
| + | [* black] No trouble for us, we pulled out our trusty [http://www.ifixit.com/Tools/Soldering-Station/IF145-018|soldering iron] and [http://www.ifixit.com/Tools/Desoldering-Braid/IF145-079|desoldering wick] and quickly free the heat sink. |