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

[James Elliott]

SUGGESTION!

When I upgraded recently I decided to let the experts attach my heat sink to
my new Athlon 1800XP CPU .... instead of buying a CPU, Mainboard, and
DDR-RAM, I ordered a bare bones Athlon computer minus the screen, keyboard,
mouse, CD-ROM, and Hard disk.

That way, for the cost of the CPU+Motherboard+Memory

I got all of that PLUS a new case, 300 W power supply, floppy disk drive,
cables, drivers, and other bits and pieces ........ AND a 12 month warranty

PLUS - I didn't have to wrestle with the heat sink !!!!! :o)

Kind regards

James Elliott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leon Brooks" <leon at brooks.fdns.net>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] [hardware] PC assembly - fried Duron?


> 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
>
>
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