Actually crying of laughter at my friend

[JamesHewitt]

So my friend replaced his CPU cooler today. First time he has done this, prior to this he had added a new gpu. 

 

Was telling him how to remove thermal paste, "There's no paste on it" so i asked him to take photos.

 

I can not breathe.

[deleted_member_030719]

You're fucking shitting me, right?

 

[Guest Kloaked]

I don't understand how that even happens. How do you pull out an AMD CPU from its socket without touching the lever? How was it even functioning if it was put in as-is?

[Djole123]

OH MY FUCKING GOD I'M DEAD 

 

I cannot beleive he actually used glue as a thermal compound  

[Techstorm970]

[AlwaysFSX]

6 minutes ago, Kloaked said:

I don't understand how that even happens. How do you pull out an AMD CPU from its socket without touching the lever? How was it even functioning if it was put in as-is?

Never underestimate people's abilities to do dumb things.

[Lolucoca]

umm

this actually happens quite a lot with older systems where the thermal compound has dried up to the point it has become like really sticky. It's not uncommon to see this with 939/AM2 motherboards. 

[Verrierr]

11 minutes ago, Kloaked said:

I don't understand how that even happens. How do you pull out an AMD CPU from its socket without touching the lever? How was it even functioning if it was put in as-is?

He unscrewed cooler mounting. 

[flibberdipper]

15 minutes ago, Kloaked said:

I don't understand how that even happens. How do you pull out an AMD CPU from its socket without touching the lever? How was it even functioning if it was put in as-is?

I mean, once the paste sets on a cooler, said cooler will happily tear the AMD chips away from the rest of their family unless you wiggle the shit out of the cooler.

[Verrierr]

31 minutes ago, JamesHewitt said:

So my friend replaced his CPU cooler today. First time he has done this, prior to this he had added a new gpu. 

 

Was telling him how to remove thermal paste, "There's no paste on it" so i asked him to take photos.

I'm really curious if that cpu is still functional (I bet it is). Please give us an update once you find out.

[JamesHewitt]

His system is quite old and it didn't take much to pull the cpu out without doing the lever.

 

We've fixed it all now, but unfortunately have to remove motherboard to do backplate. 

[JamesHewitt]

When trying to find out why his internet was so bad, I discovered this btw.

 

Shouldn't take you too long to notice

[ProjectBox153]

14 minutes ago, JamesHewitt said:

When trying to find out why his internet was so bad, I discovered this btw.

 

Shouldn't take you too long to notice

How the heck?!?!?!

[Scruffy90]

[JamesHewitt]

But he doesn't have dial up speeds.....WHICH MAKES IT EVEN MORE CONFUSING

[manikyath]

1 hour ago, Kloaked said:

I don't understand how that even happens. How do you pull out an AMD CPU from its socket without touching the lever? How was it even functioning if it was put in as-is?

because there is a certain kind of person who doesnt use their brain and goes "this doesnt come off, apply more force"

 

thats how i have an entire box of dead HDMI cables my dad ripped apart while turning the TV.

[JamesHewitt]

1 hour ago, Verrierr said:

I'm really curious if that cpu is still functional (I bet it is). Please give us an update once you find out.

I think he said he may of bent a pin or two, but got them back in place so hopefully all is good 

[SpaceGhostC2C]

1 hour ago, Kloaked said:

I don't understand how that even happens. How do you pull out an AMD CPU from its socket without touching the lever? How was it even functioning if it was put in as-is?

It will come out. I had a CPU stuck to a particularly bulky, hard to manipulate heatsink once. It ended with the CPU coming off with the cooler, lever still in place. No harm to CPU or motherboard, though. Not sure whether I would repeat or try more wiggle next time, though. While simply pulling it off can break stuff, wiggling a strongly attached cooler around could led to bent pins (remember that it's stuck hard enough you can pull it off without releasing the lever).

 

1 hour ago, Djole123 said:

I cannot beleive he actually used glue as a thermal compound  

Arctic MX-4 would be enough  

[JamesHewitt]

2 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

It will come out. I had a CPU stuck to a particularly bulky, hard to manipulate heatsink once. It ended with the CPU coming off with the cooler, lever still in place. No harm to CPU or motherboard, though. Not sure whether I would repeat or try more wiggle next time, though. While simply pulling it off can break stuff, wiggling a strongly attached cooler around could led to bent pins (remember that it's stuck hard enough you can pull it off without releasing the lever).

 

Arctic MX-4 would be enough  

I was reading, people recommend having it on and heating the cpu up a bit so the thermal paste is softer then wiggle. 

 

Also it has never been removed before in the many, many, many years he has had it. Will check mobbo name in a bit. So it was the basic compound amd use.

[JamesHewitt]

update............ He is saying it was very runny and he done it vertically...

[JamesHewitt]

IT GOT WORSE

[JamesHewitt]

3 hours ago, Verrierr said:

I'm really curious if that cpu is still functional (I bet it is). Please give us an update once you find out.

He got it all working finally. No issues on the CPU

[ProjectBox153]

2 minutes ago, JamesHewitt said:

He got it all working finally. No issues on the CPU

That's really surprising!

[Techstorm970]

2 hours ago, JamesHewitt said:

update............ He is saying it was very runny and he done it vertically...

OMG!!!  

[mad dudy]

i was having a hard time removing the stock cooler of my brothers amd cpu. so i wiggle the shit out of it until the cpu came out the socket with the heat sink. bent a few pins while i was at it.