How easy does a cpu break?

[Dominic]

Hello, i just bought a new cpu cooler, a Antec H2O 620 v4 (it hasn't arived yet) and i have read recently that many people have break their cpu while removing the stock cooler, like ripping the cpu out of the socket and bending pins, and im afraid i will break my cpu while changing cooler, (im fairly new to pc's and havent changed a cooler before) so my question is, How easily does a cpu beak? and is it easy to change the cooler? 

i have a Asus m5a78l le and a phenom 2 x4 965.

[calebp123]

Just make sure you have the little push pegs out of the mobo and just kinda be gentile and you should be fine.

[Snickerzz]

that will only happen if the thermal compound thats on the cpu right now is like glue/cement. i ripped my phenom ii x4 out of its socket because the thermal compound on the stock cooler was so bad. luckily it didn't break or have bent pins. i suggest wiggling the cooler back and fourth and ease it off

[Worth]

If it breaks, you screwed up. You used to much force or something. If you use common sense it shouldn't break.

[ExDreamer]

For amd,to remove the cooler,twist the cooler to break the thermal paste.DO NOT PULL IT OUT[Might break your mobo].I learned this from experience.After you remove the cooler and clean the thermal paste, there's a small lever on the side of the cpu.Make sure to pull that lever up.This would push the cpu up. Then you can remove the cpu. Then repeat same process in reverse to put new cpu.

[Snickerzz]

For amd,to remove the cooler,twist the cooler to break the thermal paste.DO NOT PULL IT OUT.I learned this from experience.After you remove the cooler and clean the thermal paste, there's a small lever on the side of the cpu.Make sure to pull that lever up.This would push the cpu up. Then you can remove the cpu. Then repeat same process in reverse to put new cpu.

i guess AMD uses glue thermal paste >_< i had the same issue

[ExDreamer]

i guess AMD uses glue thermal paste >_< i had the same issue

More like super glue :D 

[Dominic]

Okay, thanks for the help, i'll try to be careful.

[Lavi]

Try running something like prime95 to warm the thermal paste up before you try to remove the heatsink. Hotter thermal paste is often less viscous and so easier to remove than when it's cold.

[Dominic]

okay, i'll do that, thanks for the tip

[MPX309]

Yes I was going to say but someone else has posted, but if u go to pull it off and it seems stuck, twist it gently. 

[samuelohagan]

I had the same experience as Snickerzz, where I ripped out the cpu from the socket but I bent a couple of pins :o . However when I straightened the pins back with a mechanical pencil it worked fine.

[Flamewalker]

Ripping the entire cpu out of the socket hasn't happened to me since socket 478 ( was a p4 that was much pretty much glued to the stock cooler)

I usually turn the pc on, let it sit in the bios for a minute, then turn the pc off (so the thermal paste isn't as hard anymore), and then start removing the cooler, wiggling the cooler while pulling abit till it comes loose .

Edited July 6, 2013 by Flamewalker

[Leonard]

Hello, i just bought a new cpu cooler, a Antec H2O 620 v4 (it hasn't arived yet) and i have read recently that many people have break their cpu while removing the stock cooler, like ripping the cpu out of the socket and bending pins, and im afraid i will break my cpu while changing cooler, (im fairly new to pc's and havent changed a cooler before) so my question is, How easily does a cpu beak? and is it easy to change the cooler? 

i have a Asus m5a78l le and a phenom 2 x4 965.

This sounds like they(whom ever you read about) were not removing their CPU cooler properly, that being said, once you apply to much force on a PCB it will break, Changing a CPU cooler is very easy as long as you follow the instructions and watch a few install - uninstall videos about the specific CPU cooler. Do not be afraid about handling your PC, be informed.

[Lumi]

lol I ripped out my stock cooler for my phenom II x4 pulled it right out of the locked socket. Still runs like it's brand new almost a year later.

[Darell3]

Just make sure you have the little push pegs out of the mobo and just kinda be gentile and you should be fine.

Its an AMD CPU ;3

[Darell3]

Hello, i just bought a new cpu cooler, a Antec H2O 620 v4 (it hasn't arived yet) and i have read recently that many people have break their cpu while removing the stock cooler, like ripping the cpu out of the socket and bending pins, and im afraid i will break my cpu while changing cooler, (im fairly new to pc's and havent changed a cooler before) so my question is, How easily does a cpu beak? and is it easy to change the cooler? 

i have a Asus m5a78l le and a phenom 2 x4 965.

stock cooler is easily changed (AMD), lift latch, take heat sink out,clean cpu with alcohol,  unscrew the front bracket(beware heatsink backplate will fall off), install new cpu backplate and front bracket, reapply thermal paste, and install new heatsink. Ive changed my cpu heatsink lots of times, and i have not broken my cpu. When you install a heatsink and you slip with the screw driver, it can scratch the motherboard and break it if the scratch is pretty deep.

[I'm Batman]

get some white russian in there and you will be fine.

[brownninja97]

CPus are quite robust 

[Dominic]

thanks for all the help, i instaled the cooler and everything went fine. now it's time to oc.