don't confuse my terms heh, I might've been a bit unclear. The Push-Pins are what connect the heatsink to the motherboard, the CPU pins are the things on the AMD processors
AMD uses pins, Intel uses pads. Cant bend pads Also, i'm selling my TRUE 120 if you are interested. Its already lapped, all you'd have to do is buy the 1366 kit for it.
AMD processors use a bracket locking system for their heatsinks and/or backplates while Intel CPUs use a push-pin system/backplates
AMD processors have actual pins on the bottom of the processor with holes in the socket of the motherboard while Intel processors have pads as Veedubfreak mentioned on the actual processor while there are pins in the socket.
AMD uses pins, Intel uses pads. Cant bend pads Also, i'm selling my TRUE 120 if you are interested. Its already lapped, all you'd have to do is buy the 1366 kit for it.
yeh I learned the whole "ease it off" the hard way too, I was removing my stock heatsink and when I pulled too hard the CPU came with the heatsink and it took me about an hour with a toothpick to straighten then pins back out, but the CPU still runs just fine. *close one*