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I'm starting to notice I have an accumulation of flat chips with the heatsink still attached what do you think I should do with them

Ideally you remove the heatsink since as is they’re somewhere between dirty aluminium and midgrade.

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You can probably take a chisel and put it inbetween the chip and heatsink and hit it with a hammer. It would work best if you use a wood chisel and put the flat portion of the chisel against the heatsink and the angled portion by the chip.

I will try to take pictures later.

I sent this to Chris to see what the chips are as is

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Pictures added.

I realize that the chip and the heatsink do not match up, it is for show only because I don't currently have a chip attached to a heatsink.

Best way I found to remove them is with a heat gun. Every time I try to get the stuck on heat sink off the secondary processor on the mother board I end up tearing the chip off the board so now I just heat the top a little and it usually comes right off. It will work the same with those cpu's then you will get the better price.