help please, stuck gpu cooler

[shroomz]

Hi all, trying to change the thermal paste on my ancient 8600gt, removed the backplate but the front is solidly stuck, will not budge at all. I googled some results, and people suggesting putting stuff in the oven is what came up... Any ideas that won't come up like that guy who cooked his 8800 gtx in foil lol?

 

[95thrifles]

The idea behind this is to warm up the TIm, alternatively you could run a series of gfx based stress tests (e.g. furmark) then quickly take card out and try and remove whilst still warm

 

[freddie64]

Are you sure you have removed all the screws for the cooler.

 

[shroomz]

Hi thriffles, yes that worked, ran Furmark stress for 2 hours to get to a toasty 79C eek and it came off at last, AS5 applied instead, looking to see some serious improvements