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mobo heatsink question....

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on my new Z97-A motherboard ther are 2 gold colored heatsinks, 1 along the top and the other next to the cpu heatsink. Anyway while installing the mobo these moved a little. They seem to be spring loaded or something. Did they get damaged if this happened?
 
AFAIK, these are mostly for show, and aren't seated like you would a CPU heatsink. I wouldn't worry about it.
 
Those heatsinks are for cooling the CPU's power supply components (similar to the VRMs on a GPU). They are often mounted using springs (as are many CPU heatsinks) as the springs help even the pressure load and keep the heatsink mounted with the correct amount of tension.

I'd guess that you're probably fine as long as the heatsink is currently seated correctly. I'd say you could always remove the heatsink and reapply some thermal compound, but I'd worry that they are actually using thermal tape - in which case trying to remove them might do more harm than good.

I'd just leave it.
 
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