Alright, so I have my old motherboard here. I took it out of the case and I'm trying to unscrew these weird risers that are AROUND the cpu, they were under the heatsink when I unscrewed that out.

So essentially theres four of these, each of them is HOLLOW and about the same size as the risers that were under the motherboard (those unscrewed EASILY though)

Im just WONDERING what screwdriver I would use to unscrew this. Im not sure what heatsink mine is, but my processor is a quad 2 core q8300.This was discussed in chat, just updating in forums so others know.

Picture of BACK of the heatsink mounting plate: http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy282/qoppa1/2011-12-09_16-38-31_811.jpg

We ended up deciding that this cannot and should not be removed from the motherboard and suggested either purchasing a new mounting plate if he wishes to keep current heatsink or our recommend solution would be to get a heatsink that doesn't require the mounting plate.

If others have suggestions or feel this was wrong feel free to chime in.it looks like it would come apart but i agree the risk of damage is high { reverse thread , glue , etc.} i kind of like the setup myself , question would be how easy to get new heatsink? good call guys.