DragonMaster
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A can of air works perfectly for me.
Not for me, they're always empty when I need some.
BTW, although it doesn't seem to do any damage, but forcing a processor out like that.... is not recommendable I believe. Is there a better way of removing HSs with processors stuck on them like glue? You can't reach the lever, and stock Intel HS sticks on processors like glue....
Scrape it? I would not recommend this with say, an Athlon XP tho. The core could be damaged easily, but if you take a Pentium I, there's no problem, the core is under.
Heat it? My S3 Savage3D's heatsink was glued with cheap compound and after a couple of years, I found it was cooling my winmodem instead of the GPU. Maybe if you let it passing some time under the hair dryer it will come off. I think you can twist it or something like this also.
The Antec is that too : 5 plastic bags in a cheapo plastic bag. The small bags are unbranded.and I got it in some plastic bag.....