motherf... AGAIN?!?!?

oof

At least you're sure it had a tight seal, which is positive, right? xD

@xewl ok, true, but STILL

Old AMD cpu? Which model?

At least it didn't pull the block off your CPU, nor any of the pins

@Gregozor2121 AMD Athlon II X2 245e

@hitko No but it bent several pins. They just don't show on camera

It's easier to move when it's warmer, so you can turn the computer on with the heatsink still on, but loosened. As soon as you can feel it can move, you can turn off the computer and kind of twist off the sink.

@kamen That or the LIGHT use of a heat gun on the heatsink works. Hair dryer might be prefered.

A magnifying glass with a light, a couple of credit cards and some tweezers are the fix I used to do when I messed up PGA CPUs.

@Parzi at the very top, correct? Its visible if you look hard enough

Did you try my advice?

@tokumei yep third pin on the top corner is definitely bent

That cpu is not worth much at this point. Why are you swapping it in and out all the time? 😀

There is always that one pin which isn't upright

This happened to me, you can bend the pins back with a toothpick or a credit card.

At least the thermal paste wasn’t under the processor... 0.o

Dont most use ball and grid now days?

@tamusjroyce it's an old AMD. However even new Ryzen processors (excluding threadripper) use the traditional pin on chip method.

It's only mainstream intel chips that are all pin on board.

@tokumei yup.

@electrineer I'm not, it was pulled out of a dead AiO to see what CPU it was and if it was worth keeping.

Just wanted to throw out some pin fixing advice that I have picked up. The best way to relocate bent pins I have found is to use a mechanical pencil. Take the lead out and slide the tip tube over the pin and bend back where you need it.

@S-falken That's... actually really clever.

@S-falken aye, I've seen people like Gamers Nexus do this before. It's a fantastic technique that most people (including myself) would never think of.

Btw, that's not an AIO. It's called a heat pipe. Heat pipes are commonly used in air coolers.

But I've never seen the arrangement in the picture with a desktop CPU. That looks like a laptop heatsink to me.

E: oh, you mean the computer is an AIO? That makes sense. I thought you meant an AIO water cooler.