Top tip on wobbling the heatsink on removal. Its happened a few times to me where I've taken the processor out due to solidified paste. Frightening when the CPU has pins
some of the P4 Dell heatsinks were really evil - plastic frame all the way around and the thermal paste was more like thermal superglue - you couldn't twist the heatsink to free it or get anything under the edge to try lifting it - on a couple had to resort to brute force and ended up with the CPU being pulled out with the heatsink (fortunately they survived) - even then you still had to try and unglue the CPU from the heatsink - not fun
I used to have one of those Dell PCs that I found in somebody's front garden. That was a Pentium 4. I ended up throwing it away after a few Years after because it stopped working and it was a pretty useless PC.
Top tip on wobbling the heatsink on removal. Its happened a few times to me where I've taken the processor out due to solidified paste. Frightening when the CPU has pins
some of the P4 Dell heatsinks were really evil - plastic frame all the way around and the thermal paste was more like thermal superglue - you couldn't twist the heatsink to free it or get anything under the edge to try lifting it - on a couple had to resort to brute force and ended up with the CPU being pulled out with the heatsink (fortunately they survived) - even then you still had to try and unglue the CPU from the heatsink - not fun
You could have called it a stripathon, but the censors might have got the wrong idea.
I used to have one of those Dell PCs that I found in somebody's front garden. That was a Pentium 4. I ended up throwing it away after a few Years after because it stopped working and it was a pretty useless PC.