oooh god, i cant even comprehend the amount of bad luck that ive had with my rig, even down to the componants running out of stock and not arriving before i built it.... anyway, new heatsink arrived yay! then took off my previous heatsink, easy BUT, the cpu actually came off with it and was stuck beneath it... so i took it off with a little force and it flipped and got tine bits oif thermal compound on the pin - so now im just bout to search for arctic silver cleaner