Long story short; I bought a pc from a second hand market. It got completely destroyed during shipping. It got covered so no worries there, but im still left with some broken parts I’d like to fix. Among them is this Noctua cooler. This has been heavily bent, is it safe to bend it back again or is it going to require a lot of heat?

Thanks for any suggestions!

UPDATE :

Getting close! Surprisingly easy to vend back fix sone very slowly. Hoping to test it soon.

  • Ushmel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    15 hours ago

    Wait WHAT. I thought they were just pure copper/whatever heat conducting metal.

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      11 hours ago

      Nope. If they were they’d actually be a choke point in the heat transfer. You’d be better having the heat sink directly on the CPU rather than connecting it via 6-8 thin rods of metal.

      Heat pipes are an amazing bit of tech that only made in to computing In the early 2000s. Without them we couldn’t have laptops in the way we do and air cooling would only be for the very lowest power desktop systems.