jawtheshark's Journal: Sister, don't scare me that way

Wednesday, I replaced the heatsink of the AMD64 of my parents. You couldn't buy a fan alone, it had to be the whole heatsink thing. 7€, not that expensive. So, for kicks I decided to replace the whole heatsink. Why, not eh? Bad, idea: the original heatsink was so stuck to the CPU, that when I tried to remove it, the CPU stayed on the heatsink and I pulled it out completely! Without opening the socket! Aaargh... BAD! I remove the CPU with force from the heatsink and I bend a few pins! AAAAAGH!!!!
Well, okay, I manage to staighten them with a screwdriver and pull it back in, install the heatsink and try to boot. Still works. Then I did a CPU-Burn in order it to see if the CPU is still completely in working order. No problems whatsoever.

*phew*

Now, today I drive over to my parents and see my sisters PC (An Athlon XP 2400+, so less powerful and only has 512Meg RAM) in the place of the family computer. I think: "fuck, the machine probably screwed up and my sister put hers in the place". I hook it up again, and boot: no problems whatsoever. I run another CD Burn in and it stays stable.

Strange....

I now think I understand: my sister is alone at home and the rule is one can only smoke in the living room where the family computer resides. I guess she replaced the parents computer with hers because her computer has tablature software and the other machines don't.

Still, she scraed the fuck out of me by doing that.

yeah, retail chips come with 'thermal pads'

[kesuki]

that become as solid as a glue, with the size of the AMD heatsink, I wonder if one can even open the socket. as far as 'replacement' fans go, they're easy to buy on the internet. myself i usually order from newegg, i believe the amd64's are using 70mm fans, which start at $2.99 (+ s&h $5 :/ for a fan i might shop elsewhere...) keep in mind higher rpm fans == nosier and for Cool n Quiet operation one needs a variable rpm fan.

Re:yeah, retail chips come with 'thermal pads'

[jawtheshark]

Well, newegg is fine for US-based customers. Once you're in Europe, the shipping usually kills the savings. (And then I don't even mention the customs that can get quite expensive)

i believe the amd64's are using 70mm fans

They, do, I measured them when I went shopping for a new one.