Computer parts up for grabs (was: Motherboardectomy: how to un-bond the CPU's heatsink?)

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

And of course, this all raises the question...: when I get this sorted,
does anyone want the old motherboard? And how about the one that _it_ replaced? :)

The motherboard that I'm in the midst of replacing right now is a
Biostar A880GZ, micro-ATX board with an AM3+ CPU socket (for a variety of AMD CPUs).
Comes with a 4-GB DDR3 DIMM installed in one of its two RAM slots.

The motherboard that _that_ replaced is also still sitting in my study here,
and is also up for grabs: MSI RS480M2 micro-ATX socket 939. Comes with
an Athlon64 CPU, two 1-GB DDR1 DIMMs (with two more free slots).

On 07/07/2016 10:03 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> Bought a nice CPU a while back, with a cheap motherboard to put it onto
> until I found something better (in retrospect, that was probably silly...).
> 
> Finally found a better motherboard, and am now reminde that
> (a) now I need to get the heatsink off of the CPU in order
> to transfer the CPU between the ZIF sockets (since the socket lever
> is covered by the heatsink), and (b) baked thermal paste is
> a remarkably good adhesive.
> 
> Somewhat surprisingly..., the CPU is out of the original socket
> at this point--it popped out while I was fiddling with the heatsink.
> I'm going on the assumption that nothing got broken in the process,
> for the time being....
> 
> Any suggestions on what the right course of action is, here?
> 
> Wikihow advises to soak the CPU+heatsink assembly in isopropanol
> and then slicing them apart with dental floss.....

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