News This $1.50 Bracket Fixes All Your 'Sticky' AMD Ryzen Woes

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GELID has created a new CPU protection bracket for AMD Ryzen processors that safely insures your processor won't get yanked out of its socket when disconnecting your CPU cooler, and it costs just $1.50.
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Fortunately, 'sticky' Ryzen chips usually aren't a huge problem. In fact, you can completely circumvent this problem by ensuring your thermal paste is warm before taking your CPU cooler off.
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As a veteran PC Builder, I want to emphasize how untrue this is. I ran Prime 95 for twenty minutes, with my fans completely disconnected. My Scythe Mugen was nice and warm. and my CPU STILL STUCK TO THE HEATSINK. I even did the push-down and twist method.

The reality is, by the time I unscrewed the heatsink, the suction pulled the CPU out of the socket. I had to pry it off with a knife. I was lucky, my CPU survived.
 
An issue I can see with a product like this:
If the bracket isnt totally solid, has some give to it, when removing the heatsink the processor could pull up out of the socket partially then pop off, potentially crushing the half exposed pins on cooler re-install if the user didnt release the latch and reseat the processor first.
 
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As a veteran PC Builder, I want to emphasize how untrue this is. I ran Prime 95 for twenty minutes, with my fans completely disconnected. My Scythe Mugen was nice and warm. and my CPU STILL STUCK TO THE HEATSINK. I even did the push-down and twist method.

The reality is, by the time I unscrewed the heatsink, the suction pulled the CPU out of the socket. I had to pry it off with a knife. I was lucky, my CPU survived.
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Probably also depends on which specific compound you use. The heating "trick" may work for some compound, but like yours in my experience it tends to stick regardless. I can usually get it of with the twist method but I don't understand why AMD hasn't done anything about this themselves.

In regards to the product itself, I could see a potential issue, although it may be negligible. Given the picture, this is mounted underneath the heat sinks motherboard brackets. This will alter the mounting pressure as it raises those brackets slightly off the motherboard. Though I don't know if it's enough to cause any noticeable difference.
 
i had this happen to me the first time i changed a cooler for a ryzen and it freaked me out. never seen it before so it caught me completely off guard. the cpu was actually warm since it had been running for a long time before the swap. i had actually run prime 95 to test temps to see what the new cooler brought to the system. not saying warming it up never works, but it did not for me.

since then, i have been releasing the cpu from the mobo and pulling it off as one and then removing the cpu from the heatsink. i don't trust it to not damage something if it happens again. like said above, then some dental floss or thin fishing line works great for breaking the seal. if i run across one of these to buy, i might actually try it out to see how it goes. but it better be a solid chunk of metal so the chip does not move around at all. if not, then it might not be any better than not having it.
 
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This has been a problem with AMD CPUs since at least the socket 939 era; it boggles the mind that AMD hasn't implemented anything like Intel's mounting bracket in any of the subsequent generations of AM* sockets.
 
This is actually a nice little additive for users who are just getting into the AMD Ryzen universe on the AM4 socket. Anything to make things easier for the builder? I'm all for it. Out!
 
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