the_leander's Journal: And just when you thought that the new kit would be ok...

Yes this time, instead of scrimping on the new kit, I went all out, bought myself an Abit KV8, an Athlon 64-3000, 512mb stick of ddr ram, and found that the gfx card still worked (though the nic had died a death).

So whats wrong with it you ask, well simple - the fucking processor is overheating, and no amount of reposissioning the heatsink, or tightening the plastic dohicky that runs around the cpu thats bolted to the motherboard will fix it...

I went into a pc shop, and according to him, seems that the default cooler that comes in the retail pack has faced several variations to the retention clip, for precisely the reasons I'm currently experiencing.

Looks like yet more money for a new Heatsink, probably going for that OTT cooler from coolermaster... Cos it sure as shit can't be worse then what I'm running with atm.

In other news, I also bought a cheepo PC chips flex atx all in one motherboard, with a VIA C3-800Mhz cpu, just in case the worst happens.

And whilst I wait for the inevitable (cos lets face it, computers only last so long) I'll probably use it as part of a custom case.

Right, off to overclockers now. best get this over with :-)