Have a question on my heatsink.

[Pooptacular]

I have a cheap coolermaster heatsink with no thermal paste on my xp1600 right now, and I wish to replace it with a sk6 I got with ShinEtsu paste but I cant get the coolermaster off. I tried unclipping the clips but they wouldnt budge. I dont want to break the handle for the fan so any help will do. Thanks in advance.

 

[deeppow]

Pooptacular,

Hard to tell you what to do. Sounds like you're going to have to use a pair of pliers or needle-nose pliers. Be VERY careful. A slip can be fatal to your motherboard. My old heat pipe CoolerMaster had a thumb tab to use, does the one you have?

 

[RED Hot Machine]

You are putting a screw driver in the one end right ? Just checking that you aren't just using your fingers.

For really tight HSFs I use a screwdriver and a pair of pliers. I just the clip down with the screwdriver and use the pliers to realise the clip.

As deeppow says be real carefull a scratch across the motherboard could damage/kill the board.

 

[Pooptacular]

Sorry for not responding earlier, took me a few hours to get the job done. I'm now at 32'c (idle) 36'c (full load) which is a big decrease from 50'c+ temps. I had to pull down and out very hard to get that coolermaster off. I bent part of my mobo in the process, nothing major but it got me scared for a minute. Thanks for all the help guys.

 

[runsalone]

Yeah bending part of your motherboard is something major alright.

It took me about 45 minutes to put a retail AMD heatsink/fan on someone's asus motherboard/xp2100. I am paranoid about the heatsink installation.

But I can say that the new P4 heatsinks are very nice, very easy to install (the ones that use the stock retention part)

 

[deeppow]

Alls well that ends well. Your first step of OCing, well done.