@electrineer lmaoooo

@electrineer eh no big deal, I wanted to upgrade it anyway

@Nanos lmao look at the last posts in this thread.

Yeah I tried all that shizz

Yeah without question that's what it was, well it's good to have to the knowledge to do it, can't have everything succeed on it's first time. Thanks for sticking with me for better part of the day @Fast-Nop

Il get it cleaned up and show a pic of it, I think it's cuz I used my other blade first, there's some notable copper showing where I tried to get under it the first time, if I had started with a disposable razor, I think I would have been fine.

Ordered a 9700k off Amazon, should be coming tomorrow

@Fast-Nop

@electrineer I didn't take the black stuff off, do you think that could cause no post?

Alright well it looks like I'm ordering a cpu, 9700k is good yeah?

Oo cpu led is red on mobo, yep prolly ded

F in chat?

@Fast-Nop hmm it starts but it's not posting

@Fast-Nop isn't the black stuff just adhesive? Should be fine to stick back on cuz its being supported by the cooler no? (When it's screwed in)

@Fast-Nop I'm shaking like a mf'er but it's off

Nvm I think I got a corner

Idk if I can do it with what I got, I'm not getting anything

@Fast-Nop I'm gunna try to take a razor off a disposable one, maybe it'll work better

@Fast-Nop this is the blade I'm using

@Fast-Nop can't seem to get underneath the heatspreader

@Fast-Nop I'm going to try deliding now, wish me luck

@Fast-Nop yeah I think if anything, putting the heat spreader back on is gunna be the problem

@electrineer is there any symptoms for blockage? I can feel fluid moving through it fine and while the cpu is 100c the fluid inside is reporting 63c. iCUE reports that the rpm is going from 0->360->240 every 3 secs or so

@Fast-Nop Well I got a ifixit kit which should help tons and I've taken screens off phones before that use really good adhesive. Maybe it will work. All I got around me is some arctic silver 5 but even that stuff will be better than what's in it now

@Fast-Nop I see, have you delided a cpu before? I'm unsure of how gentle/rough I'd have to be with it (obv you'd have to be careful with the pcb bring right there)

@Fast-Nop I thought about that, but I'd need to order a tool for it, which, I'm not sure if I want to do. I skimmed across someone in a forum saying that they did it with an exacto-knife, but I'm unsure of the success rates for that

@Fast-Nop my friend is telling me that amd CPUs get better with updates and Intel's chips pretty much stay the same so it's worth the wait. While I can testify for the Intel portion of that comment, what do you think about the amd portion?

@Fast-Nop what do you mean by the cpu being soldered? I haven't heard of that before

@Fast-Nop I contacted a friend about the 5-series and he says that itl take about 3 weeks on the wait list (that's why I'm suddenly thinking intel)

@Fast-Nop what if I stayed intel with a i7-9700k? I might even slap more money down if I can cut the cost of paying for a new mobo

@Fast-Nop looks like the 5600x is sold out and on backorder everywhere, what would the alternatives be (both more expensive and less expensive)

@Fast-Nop that's perfect, I wasn't planning on upgrading my ram anytime soon anyway. Thanks for the info

@lamka02sk if it ends up being the cooler, I will eat my words and buy a different cooler, but right now, my testing seems to say otherwise.