And of course, this all raises the question...: when I get this sorted, does anyone want the old motherboard? And how about the one that _it_ replaced? :)
The motherboard that I'm in the midst of replacing right now is a Biostar A880GZ, micro-ATX board with an AM3+ CPU socket (for a variety of AMD CPUs). Comes with a 4-GB DDR3 DIMM installed in one of its two RAM slots. The motherboard that _that_ replaced is also still sitting in my study here, and is also up for grabs: MSI RS480M2 micro-ATX socket 939. Comes with an Athlon64 CPU, two 1-GB DDR1 DIMMs (with two more free slots). On 07/07/2016 10:03 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Bought a nice CPU a while back, with a cheap motherboard to put it onto > until I found something better (in retrospect, that was probably silly...). > > Finally found a better motherboard, and am now reminde that > (a) now I need to get the heatsink off of the CPU in order > to transfer the CPU between the ZIF sockets (since the socket lever > is covered by the heatsink), and (b) baked thermal paste is > a remarkably good adhesive. > > Somewhat surprisingly..., the CPU is out of the original socket > at this point--it popped out while I was fiddling with the heatsink. > I'm going on the assumption that nothing got broken in the process, > for the time being.... > > Any suggestions on what the right course of action is, here? > > Wikihow advises to soak the CPU+heatsink assembly in isopropanol > and then slicing them apart with dental floss..... -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
