<div dir="ltr">Apply low, gentle heat? The viscosity of most thermal paste/pads changes a lot with temperature. I'd take a hairdryer on low and heat up the heatsink, slowly, occasionally attempting to twist the cpu off by spinning it about the axis perpendicular to the base of the heatsink. Right-hand rule of chip removal, I guess?<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rozzin@hackerposse.com" target="_blank">rozzin@hackerposse.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Bought a nice CPU a while back, with a cheap motherboard to put it onto<br>
until I found something better (in retrospect, that was probably silly...).<br>
<br>
Finally found a better motherboard, and am now reminde that<br>
(a) now I need to get the heatsink off of the CPU in order<br>
to transfer the CPU between the ZIF sockets (since the socket lever<br>
is covered by the heatsink), and (b) baked thermal paste is<br>
a remarkably good adhesive.<br>
<br>
Somewhat surprisingly..., the CPU is out of the original socket<br>
at this point--it popped out while I was fiddling with the heatsink.<br>
I'm going on the assumption that nothing got broken in the process,<br>
for the time being....<br>
<br>
Any suggestions on what the right course of action is, here?<br>
<br>
Wikihow advises to soak the CPU+heatsink assembly in isopropanol<br>
and then slicing them apart with dental floss.....<br>
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