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Whoops cooler change fail. Options?

Manbatius

Manbatius

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Well changing from the stock and 3600 cooler to an e34 sports duo did not go well…

Despite running the machine to get it warm. The cooler came off with the cpu attached. 45 minute battle later (using various guides) I have about 8 bent pins as I slipped.

options :

long term plan was 5600x, not feeling it price wise, also my bios (Msi b550 a pro) will need updating

5600G cheaper and a plan of a back up if my gpu dies

11400F with a gigabyte d3h board. £250 ish
I3 10105F with above £175 ish

im leaning toward the i3 build then saving for a 11600k. I know it’s a dead platform
But my old 3570k build I did this. Cheap as chips cpu save up switch and ran it for a very long time.
I have just realised B560 won’t overclock… I don’t fancy loosing the pci express 4. Light gaming, mainly from software is use.

current spec
Crucial 500gb ssd Sata
Msi b550 a pro
Sapphire nitro vega 64
Mesh front planteks case
T force 3600 ram
A amd ryzen 5 3600 which is toast

I’ll try and post a pic later. Sorry for touch screen typos.
 
while b560 will not let you overclock as such it does let you lock all cores my i5-10400f has all cores 4ghz and runs fast memory

a very nice gaming chip you pick them up for around £100 on the bay
 
Cyber-Mav said:
Cant believe how many people this happens to. Noobs shouldn't be inside computers and just stick to pre builds. :p

Get the pins straight with a credit card or something
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haha 15 years building them never made a mistake.
Unfortunately the mistake I made was rushing when trying to peel the cpu off the cooler. I should have left it for another day.

anyway thread update pins all straight, doesnt fit got a magnifying set up on its way for closer investigation.

So this has gone on the project list, got a cheap Z590 build and an I3 while I wait for new releases all up and running, Cpu cooler is super quiet! Will post a pic.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
I recently changed cpu and took my time wiggling heatsink around to slowly break the vacuum suction the paste causes.
If you rush it then yep i can see mistakes happen
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I also recently changed mine from stock.

Heating it up then pushing down and gently twisting worked for me.

The 5800 looks like a better buy than the 5600x to me. £80 more for two extra cores.
 
Tiggerlator said:
There'll be no more of this crap once AMD change to a LGA socket.
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Except people complaining saying these new sockets are bad with them dropping the processor on an angle into the socket bending the pins there. Or catching the pins with a cloth.
 
Yeah but they will. You end up reading it somewhere all the time of them saying LGA are horribly designed sockets.
 
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