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.
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