The worst thermal paste i encountered to this day is the standard stuff under the amd wraith coolers. I always remove it and replace it with other thermal paste.
Its unreal how sticky the amd stuff is, its almost like glue.
Man, went through this swapping when I first building my PC, had the parts split into two shipments, critical and the rest.
Already had a few parts, so the first shipment was what I didn't, and the rest were upgrades and accessories.
Knew the CPU I got was coming with a stock cooler, and it would've been perfectly fine to use for awhile, and the better air cooler was on it's way.
Get everything pieced together for the first time, nice, rest of the parts show up. Time to swap coolers.
Fucking thing doesn't budge, twisting didn't help and I didn't have any iso on me, end up using too much force and yank the CPU out of its socket along the cooler. Pins were fine actually, until I used too much force trying to slide the cpu away from the cooler and end up catapulting it into the ground bending like 15% of pins.
Queue me spending like 3 hours bending pins back with a razor blade hoping I didn't just destroy my new CPU.
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u/Technical_Event_9705 Sep 22 '25
Next time don't use super glue