I once was trying to remove the stock cooling fan on my northbridge chip, and it had these one-way plastic pins holding it in that I didnt want to rip out for fear of damaging the brand new motherboard. So I took a long serrated kitchen knife to cut them off, and after cutting through the first pin, my knife blade carried forward through the new motherboard. 500$ gone before I'd even tried the board out
See y'all on the handi bus!