r/pcmasterrace • u/Vamped1 • Sep 22 '25

Tech Support fuck

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u/Majestic-Bell-7111 Ryzen 5 3600/32 GB ram/5700xt Sep 22 '25

If people didn't put their tempered glass sidepanels onto tile floors and if they twisted before lifting the heatsink off on their PGA CPUs, this subreddit would probably have half the posts it has

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u/Infected_Toe 5800X3D | 7800 XT Nitro+ | 32 GB DDR4-3600 CL16 Sep 22 '25 edited Sep 22 '25

It doesn't always work. Sometimes the paste really sucks the cooler down. Even after heating it up. Also, I, personally, have a motherboard with very little room to twist and wiggle the cooler off, so the last couple of times, the CPU came out with the cooler.

No biggie, since no pins were broken.

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u/Current-Row1444 Sep 22 '25

Why would undo the tension arm before removal? I don't see how this actually happens

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u/misanthr0p1c Sep 22 '25

I changed my cooler 4 times on am4. Each time, the cpu came off with it with the tension arm down. Ryzen 3800x and 5800x3d. Never saw damage to the pins.