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Here's a little tale of horror..
went to remove the ThermalTake K8 cooler from my Athlon 64 X2.
Unclipped it, tried to lift it....nothing moved.
Tried again....
nothing moved.
Tried a gentle slight twist(done it before)..
nothing moved
Tried to lift it one more time...
it moved in some style...taking the processor with it(glued to the heatsink base).
For some reason the Arctic Alumina compound(thin layer)had thickened up some and bonded the heatsink to the processor.
Not knowing what damage had been done/could be done I got a replacement heatsink and re applied compund to the cpu and fired up the pc.
So far so good, nothin gone bang yet.
Seein that I have not long spent £190 on said cpu(3800+)I was a bit more than put out.
Anyway, visions of a new motherboard and cpu have now faded.
went to remove the ThermalTake K8 cooler from my Athlon 64 X2.
Unclipped it, tried to lift it....nothing moved.
Tried again....
nothing moved.
Tried a gentle slight twist(done it before)..
nothing moved
Tried to lift it one more time...
it moved in some style...taking the processor with it(glued to the heatsink base).
For some reason the Arctic Alumina compound(thin layer)had thickened up some and bonded the heatsink to the processor.
Not knowing what damage had been done/could be done I got a replacement heatsink and re applied compund to the cpu and fired up the pc.
So far so good, nothin gone bang yet.
Seein that I have not long spent £190 on said cpu(3800+)I was a bit more than put out.
Anyway, visions of a new motherboard and cpu have now faded.