Installing your new CPU and heatsink :doing_it_wrong:
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Clearly they were just using the heatsink as a stage?
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Not the worst heatsink install I've seen...
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@nullptr said in Installing your new CPU and heatsink :
Not the worst heatsink install I've seen...
this deserves a story.
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This reminds me of a guy who came to see me with a PC because it was overheating, despite having an impressive amount of fans. Basically, every hole in the case had a fan attached to it.
After checking the usual (nothing blocking the heatsink / fans, thermal paste properly applied, etc) I realized that every fan was pushing air to the outside.
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It's been a while since I worked at a computer store, but the heatsink installs I saw...
The most common one was people forgetting to remove the little plastic bit over the thermal paste.
Second most common was actually forgetting to mount it. I guess they thought they just needed to set it on there? Either way, it came in just hanging off it's power cord, no where near the CPU.
We had one guy mount his heatsink with drywall screws into the back-plate... through the motherboard. Yeah, that must have been a light show when he powered it on... really surprised he didn't get electrocuted considering he'd grounded it to the case.
Expanding foam holding it in place. In the process of removing it, it pulled several components off the board, ruining it.
One guy couldn't figure out the mounting clamps, but knew better than to just set it there, so he hot glued it down.
Then there were the ones that came in because the computer wasn't running right, and we'd pull off the cover to find the fans had completely seized and the heatsink looked more like a dust bunny. You could tell which ones came from houses where the users smoked, because the heatsinks would be coated in this... brownish sticky goop under all the dirt and were really gross.
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@nullptr
Smokers with cats are especially bad. We had a few who would be in with brown goop hairballs on a basically monthly basis. The one seemed to get a bit offended when we tried to explain how canned air and taking the computer out on the porch every week or so might be a good idea.
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@nullptr said in Installing your new CPU and heatsink :
Not the worst heatsink install I've seen...
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@anonymous234 said in Installing your new CPU and heatsink :
@nullptr said in Installing your new CPU and heatsink :
Not the worst heatsink install I've seen...
Thanks for causing me a nervous breakdown. That was...painful.
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@anonymous234 did I just look at
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@anonymous234 I really wanted to see the magic smoke come out...
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@anonymous234 It's a shame the Onebox misses out the image titles.
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@loopback0 They are actually there, but the onebox is exactly the right size that you can either see the whole image, or the caption, but not both.
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@hungrier Oh yeah. Stupid Onebox.
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