Man, I always need to use needle nose pliers. Don't think I've ever got one of those out without them. Pain in the butt to remove, even for me, and I've removed dozens of those.
I must ask though, why does the poster of the thread wish to remove the heat sinks? Is the board not working? Is the heat sink damaged? Running too hot?
Yes, don't use paste for the VRM heatsink (the one up near the socket, assuming we are talking about the motherboard in your signature), you need thermal pad for that. They do use paste for the chipset heatsink though (the one down near the PCI/PCI Express sockets and SATA ports).
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