I think you may be taking him a little to far down the track of excitement and despair. AMD processors have 19 thousand tiny pins on em, maybe even more than that, and they bend so easily if you mishandle them. And heatsink paste should not dry out.. so it is best not to remove the heatsink...just dust the fan, make sure it spins is all.
Last edited by gerbil; Sep 18th, 2008 at 12:33 am.
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