Be Careful Removing Your Cooler....

You may ruin your CPU if you don't know this trick!

[smokejumper]

You can also let it run for 10 mins beforehand it makes it even easier

[bpatient]

Say "actually" one more time in the span of 15 seconds and you summon the ultimate meme nerd pushing his glasses up his nose to deliver the final deathblow of nerd knowledge.

[MrKrispee]

Its nice that they swapped to LGA but im ngl PGA is gonna be nostalgic af and im gonna miss it once its fully phased out.

[sebastian_]

Or maybe overclock that cpu and let it overheat and might make the thermal paste softer

[kleshutrucker]

Happened to me while repasting! Gave me a bit of a scare. Used the screwdriver trick and didn’t see any bent pins thankfully 😂

[magnawaves]

I've had to do this three times so far and it's been gut-wrenching each time. It came with the cooler the first time but I managed to do the wiggle dance by the third time. I bent ONE whole pin on my old cpu the last time I pulled it out which led to panic when I tried to repurpose it in my little itx build, but I bent it back and it works like a charm now.

Long story short, BE CAREFUL

[Dwfreak]

You could also slide the cpu off the heatsink, at least until you can tilt it up, as the paste only really prevents pulling it off directly.

[toxicrecroomfotages]

Grab from the corners is my tips because the chance of damaging the pins is smaller if you grab the flat head and do so

[bradhaines]

just give it one big twist while its all the way down. as long as its fully seated it wont spin in the socket. you'll feel the seal break on the paste then you pick it straight up, no more stuck CPU

[adjest]

Happened to us last week. My friend took a job of cleaning our friend's PC and I came over to help. We wanted to replace thermal paste and my friend pulled the CPU cooler only for the CPU itself to stick to it and bent a few side pins. Luckily the bends can be fixed so he straightened them out with a tweezer I think. The real challenge is the rock hard thermal paste. Putting the parts back together only to boot it up to soften the paste then disassembling again seems like a chore so we opted for a hairdryer. Went up prolly up to 50c but it just won't budge AT ALL. So we heat it for a longer period of time and push the CPU from side with tweezer (using its full length). It came off flying haha! Luckily it landed on my right arm and did not bend any pins. Fun times.

[suppzz]

I would also recomend booting up the system so the thermal paste also melts a little so it doesn’t stick

[rafagd]

Now you only have to worry about bending the much harder to unbend pins in the mobo socket. Hooray

[captainmat]

For my first pc, I was trying to replace the cooler, but since the cpu came off with the cooler, I have to take it off. At the end therefore some bent pins that I was luckily able to save.

[sebastian_]

I dont know how people dont think how dangerous heat gun is...
Hair dryer best and safest and if you use heat gun theres a chance all the pins can fall

[anthonyrivers]

I usually just a Q-tip with alcohol and run around the square of the cpu to the cooler making sure I get a good amount to leak into the small crack between the cooler and cpu to free it

[feliksdzerzhinskij]

Stresstest and benchmark for 15mins will do the trick

[MajorBoom]

Trick I do is I run the system for a bit to heat things up. Once warmed up, loosen the cooler, pops right off. If I don't have that option, use a blow dryer.

[therealdonchelios]

Use a welding torch to heat it up first. Works like a charm.

[dirkdiggler]

What does that at the end mean? No more cooling paste on the 7000 series or what we talking about here

[_MasterLink_]

Yea my last computer (the only video on my channel just from pre hurricane Milton) was socket AM3. This happened too often because the cooler simply couldn't wiggle at all, so despite best efforts, it had happened on occasion a couple times. I'm on AM5 now (8000 series Ryzen) and this is thankfully no longer an issue, but I don't expect my new build to have the cooler removed anytime soon.