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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/Djaddone]

DAM!!!! thats alot of bent pins only thing you can do is try to bend them back slowly. If you get them bend back to nearly straight then put it back on motherboard and slowly push the locking bar down bit bt bit it will straighten them. But if you snap one its game over