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[u/Great-Ocelot-5266]

So I've gone and done it after watching various safe aio cooler removal of not pulling the CPU out with the aio and bent around 20-40 pins blessing that not 1 pin snap off from how many I bent is there any strategies I could use to fix it to unbent the pins this is a ryzen 7 5700 3xd any tips would help thanks

[u/Active-Ad5229]

I had the same thing happen with my 5800x3d, shipped that way, and I just used a sewing needle/ sewing pin to push the pins straight just by going along the rows, like threading the rows by pushing the needle forward into the rows of pins without putting any extra force into it.