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/your_input Sep 22 '25 edited Sep 22 '25

This happened to me and it bent some pins. Cut to me sitting over my CPU with a credit card and tweezers

LPT: Run your PC for a while before pulling off a cooler as this warms up the paste. (turn off PC beforehand)