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    Question Newbie to PCs, broken screw on fan and refusing to fit into holes.

    It's an i5-4460 3.4 GHz. Thank you for the suggestion. I've considered just buying another cooler altogether so I'll use this as a reference. However, my budget is a bit of a concern and I would like to attempt to continue using it. I'll keep in mind for it though, thank you.
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    Question Newbie to PCs, broken screw on fan and refusing to fit into holes.

    Yup, I've noticed in some videos that I am able to replace the pins. However, I'm not sure if the other three of my pins are also out of order, the white parts are not budging at all and I assume that its the main thing preventing me from fitting the cooler into the motherboard. I've tried...
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    Question Newbie to PCs, broken screw on fan and refusing to fit into holes.

    I'm relatively a newbie with tinkering with PCs, so please bear with me if this is common knowledge. I have been monitoring my CPU temp for once and decided that my PC needs a quick clean up as it was reaching temperatures of 100 C during use. Cleanup was straightforward until I decided to take...