[plug] [hardware] PC assembly - fried Duron?

[Leon Brooks]

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:50, marks wrote:
> Sadly I have had a similar experience with a Duron 1200
> Same MO. I placed the heat sink poorly. There was thermal paste contact,
> just not complete.  This is enough to do it. In my case it did not even
> take a minute...... 15-20 seconds.

I installed an Athlon 1800 recently, and getting the heatsink on that was a 
real... fatherless individual... because it was very close to the PSU and 
required use of unreasonable force. However, after putting roughly half my 
weight on a screwdriver to latch down the second end of the heatsink clip at 
the bottom of a very narrow gap between heatsink and PSU (oh, my aching 
motherboard!), I was reasonably sure that the chip had solid detent against 
the heatsink - either that or the aluminium heatsink had deformed to 
accomodate the Arnie Schwarzenegger of clips. Either way, the Athlon runs at 
about 35degC and about Warp Factor 10.

Cheers; Leon