Hi guys, I got this second hand NOCTUA NP-U12P SE2 heatsink and unfortunately the CPU pad is kinda "bent" or rather not aligned. I tried to gently rotate it back, but it is stuck alright. Have anything like this ever happen to any of you? Should I leave it as is or try more to level it? Do you think it will somehow impact the performance? Any suggestions are welcome. Cheers
edit: I hope this is the right community. If not, feel free to delete this post.
Edit 2: Thanks everyone for your comments. The consensus is this thing is trashed. In the end I ended up buying a new one. Mostly because of your comments and definitely because the damn thing is missing the right adapters and can't be attached to my motherboard xD
It sure seems like the contact pad might be twisted some. I'd be concerned about mounting that to any CPU/motherboard that you care about, torquing them down to twisted pieces of metal might crack the silicon
Does it? By the looks of it it seems flat. But thanks for you comment. You got me concerned and in the end I bought a new one just to be sure. I updated the original post. Cheers
I could be wrong, it looked like it yesterday but today I'm not seeing it as much lol
I'm not sure of a good way to test though, I mean, does it sit flat on a countertop? Can you rock it around at all when it's held down against the countertop? That's not fool proof, but, it's probably better than eyeballing a picture on the Internet lol
I get you. I actually tried to rock it on a table yesterday and it seemed to not rock at all. But given the incompatibility with the motherboard I bought a new one just to be perfectly safe.