On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
wrote:
> Yeah--it's *stuck*. Maybe if I still had it locked in the socket,
> and/or if I'd been running it beforehand and still had it hot...,
> though the whole idea of holding the CPU by the pins, using the motherboard
> to apply leverage... a
On 07/07/2016 10:44 PM, Matt Minuti wrote:
> Apply low, gentle heat? The viscosity of most thermal paste/pads
> changes a lot with temperature. I'd take a hairdryer on low and heat
> up the heatsink, slowly, occasionally attempting to twist the cpu off
> by spinning it about the axis perpendicular
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 AM
On 07/07/2016 10:42 PM, dennis wrote:
> Modern cpus all have heat shields on them so I'd be more worried
> about he pins than the die. Have you tried rotating the cpu/heatsink
> in opposite directions (like you were unscrewing it)? That's usually
> all i've had to do to get them unstuck, even when
Apply low, gentle heat? The viscosity of most thermal paste/pads changes a
lot with temperature. I'd take a hairdryer on low and heat up the heatsink,
slowly, occasionally attempting to twist the cpu off by spinning it about
the axis perpendicular to the base of the heatsink. Right-hand rule of chi
Modern cpus all have heat shields on them so I'd be more worried about he pins
than the die. Have you tried rotating the cpu/heatsink in opposite directions
(like you were unscrewing it)? That's usually all i've had to do to get them
unstuck, even when I've managed to pull the cpu out of the l
I've used the dental-floss trick, well, actually, thin fishing line. It
worked well enough without the alcohol, it was just a slow, steady process.
On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:06 PM Joshua Judson Rosen
wrote:
> Bought a nice CPU a while back, with a cheap motherboard to put it onto
> until I foun
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
