The AMD Athlon is held in its casing by 8 pins. You can see them in the above photo. The 4 outer pins hold the heat transfer plate to the plastic casing and the 4 inside pins hold the CPU to the heat transfer plate.

Removing the CPU out of the casing is pretty easy compared to removing the Athlon off the heat transfer plate. Begin by taking your screwdriver and jamming it between the plastic casing and the heat transfer plate near the first pin. Be very careful.

Now push the screwdriver down like the above photo. The screwdriver will separate the heat transfer plate from the casing but it's not enough to pop the pin out of the casing. To do that give the screwdriver a 45 degree turn.

Congrats! You have just broken the first pin! Repeat the same procedure for the other 3 outside pins and you can remove the AMD case.

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