AMD AM4 cpu socket

[Brandon Preshyon]

who thinks the am4 socket needs a redesign to hold the cpu to the socket like intel does cause i just had a hiccup upgrading my stock cooler to a corsair h100i pro

as all you may know yes the cpu stuck to the heatsink of the stock cooler i even ran the computer for an hour before upgrading just to hopefully release the thermal paste

unfortunately it didn't help. 

if any of you agree this should become a topic and hope to get amd and third party motherboard venders to support this lets get our voice heard

overall i think making a better mounting for the cpu socket would be very well needed.

so new builders who are upgrading or even experienced people don't have this issue cause for some people it can be a scary moment when it does happen.

[Mira Yurizaki]

I'm questioning if you unclipped the heat sink and pulled straight out without wiggling the heat sink first. And if you pulled it straight out, how hard you did it. Because I'm almost certain gripping 1000+ contacts should generate enough static friction to keep the processor in the socket unless the thermal paste was really thermal adhesive.

[Statik]

Heat it, twist it, gently rock it off. It can be done. 
 

there’s only going to be one more AM4 chipset before AMD moves on, so I doubt they’re going to remodel all their current boards because a few people ripped their chips out of the socket.

[Brandon Preshyon]

no i didn't release the cpu tension arm i simply undone the screws and wiggled it slowly and when it finally came off the cpu came out with it so yeah i didn't release the tension arm

 

[Brandon Preshyon]

or either that the stock cooler had too much preapplied thermal paste and glued it to the cpu which seem to be the case when i finally got the cpu off of it,

and if you are curious yes i did apply my own paste to the cpu this time snice i know the preapplied stuff really isn't that good i used mx 4 arctic

[Fasauceome]

it has certain advantages and disadvantages. when the CPU is not in the socket, the pins are more durable than the pins on an Intel motherboard and more damage resistant than the pads on the bottom of Intel CPUs as well. 

 

some things are better, some are worse. similar bad situation if you drop your Intel CPU into the socket

[Tristerin]

Ive put 6 different coolers on and off of an AM4 socket so far and did not have this problem.  Between stock TIM on the first and second version of the Wraith, MX4, TG Kryo, and whatever CM puts on their AIO's I never had this issue.  

 

My thoughts is they do it for cost designs, as they are considered a more budget friendly option for the main bones of a PC.

[Brandon Preshyon]

either that it might of been the fault of the socket itself on the asrock ab350m not properly clamping the cpu in place or something. regardless i do have plans on upgrading to gen2 ryzen 7 3700x and i'm not cheaping out on a motherboard this time around