Removing a GPU heatsink

[Mitwyatt]

Hello, I currently own a Gigabye MAYA II r9700pro, and I just bought a VGA-Silencer by artic-cooler online, because the small fan on my vid card is not cooling it well and it is having some heating problems. ANYWAY, I was inspecting the heatsink and I noticed I could pop up 2 white spring pins from the bottom of the card, after doing this the heatsink was still tight on the card. Could the heatsink be glued down or am I missing something? If it is glued down what is the best and safest way to remove a glued down heatsink off a GPU?

 

[mrface]

it shouldnt be glued down, it should just pop right off. try wiggling it a lil bit.

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[Mitwyatt]

Well, its still flat on there and not budging, should the plastic pins come off all the way because they just pop up half-way from underneath the vid card

 

[mrface]

they should have clip like things that poke thru the bottom, just squeeze them and make sur they go all the way thru the pcb and your gpu hs/f should come off.

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