Quote Originally Posted by Sebastione View Post
Am I right under the assumption that the removal of the IHS and retention bracket only works with waterblocks and not air cooler as they would bend the socket pins due to their weight ?
No, it works fine with air coolers, too. Socket has plastic ridges between pins that the CPU substrate rests on and pins only exert their own pressure against lands. It's the same with IHS, only without IHS you have to distribute the pressure evenly across the whole substrate. If you only pushed against the die, the substrate might bend and not make contact with all pins, or even the die might crack.