Taking all the precautions , ran full load and heated cpu to 70°C for 20 mins..
Switched off pc , heated again the heatsinks with hair dryer of wraith prism cooler before doing any wiggle..
Took out the cooler with the twisting technique but cpu came with it !! The cpu was stuck and broke the am4 holder too.
It took me alot more time to separate from the cooper plate , i tried heating again and throwing iso. alcohol around cpu with it was stuck like bricke/cement .
Now i am stuck at either buy new cooler which was screw type tightening mechanism as the wraith prism locking mechanism sucks or buy that am4 plastic plate which i am not able to find locally.
Fyi – R7 2700x , stock paste since 2019 .
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RIP. Also, Jesus Christ. HOW? Did someone use thermal adhesive instead of thermal paste?
That’s… actually impressive.
the funniest part is, the socket is probably actually still fine.
The plastic grid is just a guide for proper alignment as well as protection for the contacts on the mobo.
The contacts are partially exposed so you gotta be careful like with LGA sockets… but theres enough left that the guiding and thus the pin-to-pad contact is still completely fine.
Wouldn’t be surprised at all if you put the CPU back in and it just boots up like nothing happened.
R.I.P 🙁
In terms of socket, we got half a socket
I was wondering what that extra flappy bit was. Then I saw the second photo. I have never seen that before.
You almost got it.
Zero reason to apply new paste on such a new machine. Not sure why this has become a thing nowadays.
Unless the CPU is overheating, stop with the repasting folks.
Well..
Luckily am4 boards are pretty easy to get.🤷♂️
It happened to me couple times to rip the cpu out of the socket, never actually damaged the socket. Missing piece of plastic may indeed cause some problems with mounting pressure and contact. I would look for cooler mounted on standoffs secured with thumb screws.
Should have left it alone. More people screw up their systems trying to change thermal paste when there’s no need to. SMH