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Hyper 212 Evo impossible removal

frozensun
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Hey friends.

I'm bored today so I wanted to replace thermal paste on my good old FX 8120.

But as you can see I have a problem.

Seems to me that cooler is literally stuck/glued onto CPU,I can force push it upwards only but I'm affraid I'll break socket or motherboard.

What can be done in this case?

Thermal paste was not changed for like 8 years :D

 

 

 

Please do not take offence for my apparent confusion or rudeness,it's not intent me to be like that,it's just my BPD,be nice to me,and I'll return twice better,be rude and usually I get easly pissed of...I'll try to help anyone here,as long as it's something I dealt with,and even if you think I'm rude or not polite,forgive me,  it's not me it's my BPD.

Thanks for understanding.

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run prime95 for a few minutes, then twist it slightly while removing the heatsink.

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4 minutes ago, Herman Mcpootis said:

run prime95 for a few minutes, then twist it slightly while removing the heatsink.

Impossible,I disassembled the components for cleaning...any other suggestion?

 

Please do not take offence for my apparent confusion or rudeness,it's not intent me to be like that,it's just my BPD,be nice to me,and I'll return twice better,be rude and usually I get easly pissed of...I'll try to help anyone here,as long as it's something I dealt with,and even if you think I'm rude or not polite,forgive me,  it's not me it's my BPD.

Thanks for understanding.

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If the paste is cold and hardened there's no way of really getting it off. You'll have to heat it up. Try twisting (do not lift at the same time), perhaps with enough force the torque from grabbing the edges of the heatsink will make it come off.

As a wise master once said, 

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19 minutes ago, frozensun said:

Impossible,I disassembled the components for cleaning...any other suggestion?

Then all you can do is twist it and see if it comes off.

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Yes nudged it left and right and I took it off...

 

Please do not take offence for my apparent confusion or rudeness,it's not intent me to be like that,it's just my BPD,be nice to me,and I'll return twice better,be rude and usually I get easly pissed of...I'll try to help anyone here,as long as it's something I dealt with,and even if you think I'm rude or not polite,forgive me,  it's not me it's my BPD.

Thanks for understanding.

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8 minutes ago, frozensun said:

Yes nudged it left and right and I took it off...

Good job. This happened to me once I think it was on an Athlon and I ripped the CPU out of the socket and THEN it got lose from the heat sink, fell down onto the mobo and bent some pins lol. I used a credit card to bend the pins back but it sure was annoying hehe.

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