CPU Contact Frame - CPU swap process

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Howdy. I am swapping my i7 13700k out on my gaming rig for an i9 14900k (will be donating the 13700k to my son's rig as part of an upgrade).

The issue is, I have a contact frame fitted to my motherboard and the last time I removed one of these, the CPU stuck to the cooler as I removed it and then the CPU dropped on the socket and bent a couple of pins which led to the motherboard being toast. Obviously want to avoid this in the future. Has anyone got any tips? I had thought to run a stress test to heat up the thermal paste to make it less like glue. Any other tips or tricks very welcome. :)

Thanks in advance.
 
I almost had this happen as the thermal paste gets around the inner edges of the contact frame causing abit of a seal around the cpu's IHS.

I cleaned as much of the thermal paste as i could around the cpu IHS between the inner gap around the contact frame. Then hold the cpu down while pulling the contact frame off works fine for me everytime, that way the contact frame doesn't get stuck to the cpu as you lift up.
 
you could remove the cooler before unscrewing the contact frame. Then as Jay85 says just hold the cpu down whilst removing the frame
 
Just to update, I replaced this fine. Process was to first heat up the cooler by running some stress tests to get some heat generated. Carefully removed the cooler.

Then cleaned around the contact frame and cpu to remove as much thermal paste as possible. Lastly I removed the contact frame. There was a very slight lift of the cpu when I removed it but all is good.

14900k now installed only to read about all of the issues with them.
 
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