This kinda sounds stupid, but everyone I’ve looked up say “grab CPU by the sides and take out”. Thing is, the CPU is in the socket, the sides are surrounded by the socket “walls”, I can’t exactly grab the sides.
I mean, kinda same thing for putting CPU in, but for putting it in, I can just let go a bit above, and have it fall down into the socket.
Maybe this motherboard is like that, and other motherboard are different, but I don’t know.
The only thing I can grab is the heatsink (which you apply thermal paste to) on the top, but I can’t get a good grip on it.
I can keep grabbing and pull the CPU to the side on top, but I might bend a few pins doing that.
This is AM5 socket btw.
I thought am5 CPUs usually have big notches in the top part, seems like it should be easy enough to grab on to those.
Otherwise, there’s usually enough space around the sides that you can fit a fingernail/toothpick/tweezers in there and flip it out. You could also put your hand over it and flip the whole thing over.
So the top part, the “heatsink” part, I can grab it by that, but the grip is bad and I can’t take it out (at least not without rapidly grabbing it and pulling it to the side out of the socket), and I don’t want to touch those electronics under it (as shown in your picture).
I can’t really grab it by the sides with fingers, I could perhaps with tweezers, but too afraid those could scratch something in the process.
A small suction cup might work as someone else mentioned though, but don’t have that.
Those are just capacitors or resistors, you can touch them they don’t care. As long as you don’t have a high static electricity charge on you you can freely touch anything you want in the computer. Touch any part of the case before you start working on it and you’re good.
Just maybe don’t touch the pins under the CPU since they’re really delicate. But anything else touch to your hearts content. Computers aren’t that fragile. Also this: https://i.imgur.com/qD1bHtE.jpeg