How to Remove a CPU Cooler Safely!
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Date: 2022-03-15
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Comments and reviews: 10
PE4Doers
Excellent video Alaina. This information will hemp many people trying to upgrade their CPU. In support of your viewers fully understanding the issue, a few months back I was upgrading one of my PC's from a 3900X AMD CPU to a 5900X. I removed the AIO pump improperly and I wound up pulling my CPU right out of the socket. Fortunately, I had bent just a few pins along the edge that were fairly easy to straighten, however it could have been a disaster: ( Thanks again, and you got my 'Like' of course: )
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Excellent video Alaina. This information will hemp many people trying to upgrade their CPU. In support of your viewers fully understanding the issue, a few months back I was upgrading one of my PC's from a 3900X AMD CPU to a 5900X. I removed the AIO pump improperly and I wound up pulling my CPU right out of the socket. Fortunately, I had bent just a few pins along the edge that were fairly easy to straighten, however it could have been a disaster: ( Thanks again, and you got my 'Like' of course: )
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JanButBL0CKY
Building my first PC and never having experience with AIOs this helped a lot, as the idiot I am I spilled t. paste on the motherboard (not pins, AM4 CPU was in) and got impatient to clean it and put the AIO on anyway, then I had regrets, found this video, and safely removed the cooler to clean it. Thanks a lot! Saved time and stress. I'll put an edit if the system boots tonight.
Edit: IT WORKS! Everything is fine on it, everything up to date now and drivers done. Thanks again!
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Building my first PC and never having experience with AIOs this helped a lot, as the idiot I am I spilled t. paste on the motherboard (not pins, AM4 CPU was in) and got impatient to clean it and put the AIO on anyway, then I had regrets, found this video, and safely removed the cooler to clean it. Thanks a lot! Saved time and stress. I'll put an edit if the system boots tonight.
Edit: IT WORKS! Everything is fine on it, everything up to date now and drivers done. Thanks again!
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MrNightpwner
I'm not lying, I ripped a CPU out of its socket 30 min after I built it because I didn't feel confident on the thermal paste I layed. Cooler attached. I freaked out. No bent pins. CPU holder was confirmed down, Idk how nothing shattered. Anyways I took alcohol to the edges with q tips and a small screw driver to pry. 3 years later still good. What An ordeal though.
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I'm not lying, I ripped a CPU out of its socket 30 min after I built it because I didn't feel confident on the thermal paste I layed. Cooler attached. I freaked out. No bent pins. CPU holder was confirmed down, Idk how nothing shattered. Anyways I took alcohol to the edges with q tips and a small screw driver to pry. 3 years later still good. What An ordeal though.
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Trainguyxx
I've pulled the cooler with the cpu attached and bent pins before. Not fun at all. I wish I had seen this video before that happened. I'm going to send this video to a friend who's replacing thermal paste soon. Thank you for the helpful video!
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I've pulled the cooler with the cpu attached and bent pins before. Not fun at all. I wish I had seen this video before that happened. I'm going to send this video to a friend who's replacing thermal paste soon. Thank you for the helpful video!
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Cloud
it happened to me 1 time I pulled a cpu out and I am a good builder sometimes it just happen and there is nothing you can do about it especially on very old pc nothings was broken but still sometimes it sucks
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it happened to me 1 time I pulled a cpu out and I am a good builder sometimes it just happen and there is nothing you can do about it especially on very old pc nothings was broken but still sometimes it sucks
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G.
Doesn't the thermal paste reach ambient temperatures within minutes after shutting down anyway? If the paste stays warm for a long time the cooler isn't working as it should basically.
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Doesn't the thermal paste reach ambient temperatures within minutes after shutting down anyway? If the paste stays warm for a long time the cooler isn't working as it should basically.
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JM
At 1: 46, you say dramatically and emphatically -do not, DO NOT, pull up on it at all-. If I don't pull up at all, how do I ever get the cooler off even when the thermal paste is soft?
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At 1: 46, you say dramatically and emphatically -do not, DO NOT, pull up on it at all-. If I don't pull up at all, how do I ever get the cooler off even when the thermal paste is soft?
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Peter
Could have used a shot of putting the socket cover in case of Intel. I personally forgot to do it correctly and messed up my pins on (luckily) old B75 board.
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Could have used a shot of putting the socket cover in case of Intel. I personally forgot to do it correctly and messed up my pins on (luckily) old B75 board.
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Dixon
That damn cooler, i swear I wasted like 10 minutes after the screws came off lmao but turns out it was thermal paste. Also, thanks for the tip on the pins
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That damn cooler, i swear I wasted like 10 minutes after the screws came off lmao but turns out it was thermal paste. Also, thanks for the tip on the pins
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rinnesharingan
Thankyou for making video on this topic i almost ruined my cpu
When i removed cooler the cpu was stuck like a glue and came out with cooler
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Thankyou for making video on this topic i almost ruined my cpu
When i removed cooler the cpu was stuck like a glue and came out with cooler
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