[ChanceCoats123]

Well, I went to pull my heatsink off yesterday to apply come new paste and apparently amd paste is very sticky because it pulled my cpu out as well. Ended up bending 7 pins on the side to the right of the little gold triangle. (If that makes any sense) I gingerly took my knife and ran it through the pins to straighten them out and popped it back in the socket and it booted fine. I just want to know how durable the pins are? Say I wanted to sell this cpu or give it to a friend after I get my new one, would any of the pins break off during removal? And I'm sure that bending the pins has the same effect as it does on all metals, but what is usually the life of the pins, IE: how many times could the pins be bent before they were to break off?

[CharlieCS]

Depends on bend radius , ambient temperature and other factors , however it is obvious to both of us to know for sure ,u need 100 cpu's in different scenarios, bend all the pins untill they break , record data and then we can come up with statistical figure .

[trents]

I have had that problem with some of my builds, especially with socket 754 and 939's when the heatsink base filled up the space encompassed by the retention bracket such that there wasn't room to twist the heatsink at all. The problem was exacerbated by the fact that the heat sink also covered up the cpu socket lock down lever so that I couldn't just release the heatsink and the cpu together and slide it off once out of the computer. I've bent a few pins but never pulled any out of the cpu. I think they're fastened to the cpu base pretty securely.

With the socket AM2s, however the bracket is much bigger than the heatsink base and I find that if I twist the heatsink back and forth a little and at the same time lift up from one of the corners it will usually release from the cpu before the cpu pulls out of the socket.

[terran2k]

I bent quite a few pins on my AMD X2 due to the same problem, paste stuck the cpu and heatsink together. I've removed it at least 3 or 4 more times since then and it's all good. so you'll be fine. I also had a pentium4 from ebay that had 1/4 of it's pins bent during shipping, I straightened them out too with a mechnanical pencil and ran like a champ, and re-installed multiple times on diff mobos.
What I do now before I remove a heatsink is turn the computer on and let the cpu get warm and shut it down, the heatsink seems to come off easier, I havent bent any pins since.

[ShaggyTDawg]

Never had this happen before. Scares me to think about it. But I do like terran2k's idea. Turn it on, maybe even run some CPU stress test to get the paste nice and soft. Then turn it off, and take the heatsink off (might need something to grab the hot heat sink w/).

[ChanceCoats123]

Yeah, I'm actually pretty sure these cpus are close to bomb proof after that. I was trying to take apart( break apart) an old socket 7 cpu and it is like a rock, I mean I literally threw it at the concrete floor and the most that happened was the pins got a little dinged up.

[Badbonji]

The pins are more durable than you think, some of my pins on the 965 were bent and they were fine after using a knife and a lot of time

[Archer0915]

I de-capped an old k6-2 that way and they said as stayed viscus. Same situation popped the proc out with the HS. To this day I cant figure out how I pulled the IHS away from the rest of the proc whilt trying to remove the HSF from the CPU. It must have been in a fit of rage.

[ChanceCoats123]

Bahaha, sounds like you are the hulk or it was just poorly made... It running fine, I got my fastest super pi score so it's performing fine.

[Archer0915]

Actually it may have had more to do with single malt scotch and a screw driver it is kind of fuzzy