re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

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I would further emphasize the words “warm” and “gentle”. If you use something like a blow dryer, keep it far away. But there’s actually a safer way: run a few loops of an SSD benchmark to get the chips nice and hot, and like UH said, gently twist. The damage comes from pulling straight up and detaching the chips, same as with a CPU cooler. Just apply light, then slowly increasing, steady lateral pressure. If you’ve warmed up the chips enough, you should start feeling it slide. Once that “seal” is broken, it should come right off.

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Thanks. I'll definitely keep this in mind.

Any tips for setting up my CPU or things to look for in the AMD world? It was taking a long time to boot, but once updated bios, its pretty fast. It was sitting in bios for 61s (per task manager) but now its 12s. As for just navigating around (browsers, programs, loading a couple of games last night) Its definitely seems snappier than my 11900K. I'm gonna run some Cyberpunk tonight or tomorrow. I have a new PSU and a 3080 to give my kid's rig, and i'm building another rig with my spare board and CPU for my youngest. His case comes in today.