I have read about everyone killing their chips with this fan and think that I found the way you should remove it. I took a small screwdriver and placed it between the clip and orb at the bottom and never pushed on the orb but just the clip and at the same time pushed out with the screw driver,hope this saves someones chip ,P.S watch the fan wires ,I didnt and almost cut one into. I also got my pc to 1000mhz 10x100 , but taking it slow , it is a 900mhz tb WILDONE