removal of Pentium 4 heatsink question

[mjwhite]

I recently purchased a Pentium 4 2.4B to replace my 1.8 in an Abit TH7-ii MB.
The 1.8 had been installed with the stock Intel heatsink and thermal pad.
When removing the heatsink it actually pulled the CPU right out of the socket.
Didn't appear to cause any damage though, took a fair bit of prying to remove
the 1.8 from the heatsink. Installed the 2.4 , everything is running fine. Just surprised
me that the 1.8 was stuck to the heatsink like this ! Is this normal ?
Seems like this could damage the processor or possibly the cpu socket on the MB
when removing the heatsink.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: mjwhite
I recently purchased a Pentium 4 2.4B to replace my 1.8 in an Abit TH7-ii MB.
The 1.8 had been installed with the stock Intel heatsink and thermal pad.
When removing the heatsink it actually pulled the CPU right out of the socket.
Didn't appear to cause any damage though, took a fair bit of prying to remove
the 1.8 from the heatsink. Installed the 2.4 , everything is running fine. Just surprised
me that the 1.8 was stuck to the heatsink like this ! Is this normal ?
Seems like this could damage the processor or possibly the cpu socket on the MB
when removing the heatsink.

Be glad it was not an AMD proc or it would have been wrecked.

I would assume the thermal interface material dried out and stuck the 2 together. Use ASII or III next time to avid this.

 

[Lizardman]

Why did you buy a 2.4. You could have just overclocked your 1.8 to that speed.

 

[mjwhite]

I'm building another system and the 2.4B seemed
to be the best bang for the buck.

Hopefully I'll be able to overclock the 2.4 even higher !