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.
I see two ways forward: either you're risk averse and assume internal damages that will highly influence heat transfer or you trust in the automatic protection mechanisms or your CPU.
Personally I'd toss it but I'm old and I've burned more than one CPU back in the days with faulty or wrongly installed coolers.
I don't think that the risk is high nowadays but I'm (literally) burned in that regard.
I'm not even sure it would survive bending back so perhaps try that first and if it breaks completely you don't even have a decision on your hand :)
CPU thermal protection is pretty solid nowadays. I'm also old, and I too remember Athlons you could actually cook on, but in my general experience I've found they did learn from that and the thermal protections are not exactly a complex system. It's basically math, as far as calculating how much power is going in to how quickly it can heat up to where the thermal sensor is placed, and they simply shut it down before it's mathematically possible for the heat to reach a damaging level. It's very hard now to actually destroy a CPU due to internal overheating, at least any of the ones I've had various "incidents" with. They aggressively throttle down and shut down and are perfectly fine once properly cooled.