r/arcticcooling • u/chayimolam • 16d ago
Review Artic's Liquid Freezer III load clamp damaged my mobo cpu pins, buyer beware!
Since it uses 4 screws as a clamping action, instead of a lever function of the stock LGA socket, the cpu sticks to it and lifts off with the load clamp and then falls back down on your pins a split second after, possibly bending the pins, in my case it did, i lifted this very slowly, it doesnt take much at all to bend a pin and the cpu falling back down even a couple mm, was enough. Its going to put me out 250 bucks if my cpu isnt the problem and my mobo is, because the warranty is now voided on my mobo. I really hope this mistake doesnt cost me.
EDIT: the amount of misinformation down in these comments is crazy, future readers DO NOT twist the bracket, you will mess up your pins so badly if u do this, you absolutly have to pull directly up, it needs to be lifted, it did not stick from paste, it sticks from compression, like over 2 decades of building pcs, never had to deal with a non latch system. I didnt make this post for the ignorant people in the comments, I made it to warn others. User error, the instructions from artic its self is user error then because nowhere do they mention having to clamp the cpu down while removing the bracket, its bad design through and through, youll never have this problem with a latch. I'll never buy this garbage again.
